Mouse
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My 1200GS has the best gearbox of any bike I've ridden, except perhaps a kawasaki GPz500 ... way better than my Fazer's box anyway.
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2000 model 22,000miles £5999
I bought a 2001 new, paid £8k, so the above has lost £2k over 4 years!! I know the dealer would only give you £4.5k and bang it out for £6k but these were the reasons why i stopped looking at second hand and bought new. At the time i was looking at 3 or 4 yr old bikes that were less than £2k cheaper than a new one. It didn't make sense when i could just afford to buy a new 'un.
I reckon if you go down anything other than the GS route, in weeks/months/years to come, you'll be selling at a big loss in order to buy what you know is the sense choice now.
Do the test ride stuff, buy the GS and enjoy. You will not regret it
( I sold my ADV in April and was to give up biking, less than 6 months and i was pining, now got a lovely 1100RS to be traded in the spring for a GS.)
I bought a 2001 new, paid £8k, so the above has lost £2k over 4 years!! I know the dealer would only give you £4.5k and bang it out for £6k but these were the reasons why i stopped looking at second hand and bought new. At the time i was looking at 3 or 4 yr old bikes that were less than £2k cheaper than a new one. It didn't make sense when i could just afford to buy a new 'un.
I reckon if you go down anything other than the GS route, in weeks/months/years to come, you'll be selling at a big loss in order to buy what you know is the sense choice now.
Do the test ride stuff, buy the GS and enjoy. You will not regret it
( I sold my ADV in April and was to give up biking, less than 6 months and i was pining, now got a lovely 1100RS to be traded in the spring for a GS.)
I love..
the clunky gearbox on my 1150. I would not want to swap it for anything else. I love it, love it, love it. That's my unbaised view
the clunky gearbox on my 1150. I would not want to swap it for anything else. I love it, love it, love it. That's my unbaised view
skybluebird
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bigbike2004 said:
What is supposed to be wrong with the gearbox, exactly? Mine's fine, anything less than imperceptible changes are due to laziness on my behalf.
In the last 7 years I've owned a Dominator, Firestorm, DR250, KTM 640, Blackbird and now the GS. I can say, hand on heart, that the GS' box is as good as any of them, way better than the 'Bird. The KTM may have been a smidge slicker, but loses points for telling fibs about when it was in neutral (or not..). Is mine broken?
GR1
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hi all, like half , i am toying with buying a GS, got a test ride booked for next monday on a 1200.
the important thing for me is comfort, i need the low seat, being just a bit taller than a midget, the big thing is i have just had a hip replacement and can no longer fold myself into a sportsbike, so the upright position feels good.
whats it like for all day riding?
cheers guys
hi all, like half , i am toying with buying a GS, got a test ride booked for next monday on a 1200.
the important thing for me is comfort, i need the low seat, being just a bit taller than a midget, the big thing is i have just had a hip replacement and can no longer fold myself into a sportsbike, so the upright position feels good.
whats it like for all day riding?
cheers guys
it'll probably run out of petrol. 
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