Should I buy another 1200GS?

[itchywheels]

hey man - i have owned four boxer bmws - r850r/r1150gs adv/ r1200gs x 2 / and not one of those bikes have ever let me down / seems that there are a lot of unlucky souls out there - or perhaps they don't treat them properly hope i am not tempting fate here

You talk a load of balloch's

 

[Toby]

I have just returned from a 3 1/2 month trip travelling the length of South America on an ex Offroad Skills '08 Adventure.
The bike was absolutely brilliant, both comfortable and fun to ride.
We covered 14,000 miles of which 4,000 were offroad. We were self supporting so took too much stuff, our luggage weighed 100kg but still the bike handled very well.
The only fault I had with my bike was the non BMW pannier rack supports sheared in the washboard tracks but were locally welded and survived the remainder of the trip.
My buddy on a similar bike had the same pannier rack breakage, a rear shock fail and an alternator belt get shreaded. The shock was replaced by BMW under warranty, airfreighted from Guildford and the belt, we had a spare as part of our spares kit.
I was a great fan of the GSA before this expedition but now I know how exceptional this machine is as it does nearly everything a garage full of different bikes would do in one fun package.

Follow what we did on www.emseven.blogspot.com