The value of reading before changing🤣

[Wrigsby1]

As a regular mind mither I'm sure afflicts is all, I'm in the FS section looking at the great value bikes on offer...
As an owner of a couple of proper " old shitters" not the lovely clean bikes often misappropriated as such, I'm often mentally at the "upgrade" mind fork...
So I read a few of the Hexhead threads with interest and after seeing "special clutch fluid", expensive, fiddly, fixes, Canbus, failing ABS again and dodgy FDs again again I think of the wonders of simplicity our old Oilheads shitters and non shitters are... Especially when they are a "known known"... (Rumsfeld tm)... Been there, done that, got the Motoscan etc...

 

[Nin]

I still think a late 1100GS is the sweet spot.

Having thrown my money at all the rest of them, before and after!

 

[Wrigsby1]

I still think a late 1100GS is the sweet spot.

Having thrown my money at all the rest of them, before and after!

Like a lot on here we can think back to our nearly but not quite bikes, the reasons we sold on and the ££ cost of the each " new dawn"...I commuted on my old 11GS today and chucked the old tractor at a few corners for amusement...

 

[Bucephalus]

I still think a late 1100GS is the sweet spot.

Having thrown my money at all the rest of them, before and after!

Hand on heart the best GS I’ve ever ridden was an 1100 GS..Even though it was Mikeyboy’s personal bike, I did however have an epiphany, and thought do you really need any more than this..

 

[Wrinkly]

I still think a late 1100GS is the sweet spot.

Having thrown my money at all the rest of them, before and after!

I have had one in the past as well as most of the other iterations up until the 1200wc, then I completly went off the GS's. I have recently purchased another 1100 and am pondering how far to go with it's restoration. The only stand out fault at the moment is that it needs a new choke cable which already looks like a pig of a job.

 

[Nin]

Ah yes the throttle/choke cable is a proper PITA job, and one of the dirtiest, oddly enough.

 

[jetjock]

I have had one in the past as well as most of the other iterations up until the 1200wc, then I completly went off the GS's. I have recently purchased another 1100 and am pondering how far to go with it's restoration. The only stand out fault at the moment is that it needs a new choke cable which already looks like a pig of a job.

If it’s a late 1100mthe choke cable replacement isnt too bad . Once you’ve worked out to unclip the sliding plastic Bowden Box it’s ok . I found undoing the circlips on the throttle bodies and rotating the bodies meant it was easier to unclip and re clip the cylinder throttle cables

 

[Steptoe]

Ah yes the throttle/choke cable is a proper PITA job, and one of the dirtiest, oddly enough.

Replacing an 1100 choke/fast idle cable is an absolute doddle compared to an 1150 and it’s over elaborate handlebar lever set-up with its tiny hidden screws and “ping feck-it” parts,

 

[Nin]

Happy days, on our way to the Altoturia rally.

 

[Riceburner]

I do wonder sometimes what the facts that I've a) ridden most of BMW's offerings over the past 25 years (and other bikes), and b) have owned 5 Rocksters, and still own 2 say about me.... <worried>

 

[ynotbiker]

It says your a rock star been looking at getting a rockstar.

 

[Wrigsby1]

I do wonder sometimes what the facts that I've a) ridden most of BMW's offerings over the past 25 years (and other bikes), and b) have owned 5 Rocksters, and still own 2 say about me.... <worried>

It means your shorter than me and don't get blown off the back when maxing out...

 

[Riceburner]

It means your shorter than me and don't get blown off the back when maxing out...

Nope - I just blow the things up when I do that.