Gil-Gandel
Registered user
...and see they have a few old R1200GS for not very much money and think "Well, you know..."
I mean, back in 2006 I went and test-rode an F800 thanks to Balderston of Peterborough when they had a day at Whitlingham (near Norwich) but they also had a 1200GS which I took for a short spin and enjoyed immensely, but didn't have the money for at the time. And here I am, with a perfectly good F800S which I haven't ridden much in the last few years, and I was thinking, perhaps this is the year when I dig it out from the garage where it's been hidden behind the odds and ends we took away from the in-laws' house when they sadly died four years ago, and I know the battery's fit for nothing but a doorstop by now, so off I go to look for a new one, and then without ever intending to I find myself digging down the back of the sofa for spare change.
Motorworks dropped off a very nice clean-looking 1200GS first thing this morning, actually a year older than my F800S but with a reasonably low number on the clock, and while I have yet to master actually getting aboard (as I am quite short-legged for my 5' 11'') I managed it at no more than the third attempt and it turns out I haven't forgotten to ride yet. Just a quick run out for petrol and then to work this morning, and home again by way of a short trip where some bint in a Kuga didn't want to wait her turn to overtake the car two places ahead of us on the A11. Cut me up, will you? I can stomp you into the dirt any time I like and don't you forget it...!
It's a fun machine. We're both getting on towards retiring age and I think we'll enjoy growing old disgracefully.
I mean, back in 2006 I went and test-rode an F800 thanks to Balderston of Peterborough when they had a day at Whitlingham (near Norwich) but they also had a 1200GS which I took for a short spin and enjoyed immensely, but didn't have the money for at the time. And here I am, with a perfectly good F800S which I haven't ridden much in the last few years, and I was thinking, perhaps this is the year when I dig it out from the garage where it's been hidden behind the odds and ends we took away from the in-laws' house when they sadly died four years ago, and I know the battery's fit for nothing but a doorstop by now, so off I go to look for a new one, and then without ever intending to I find myself digging down the back of the sofa for spare change.
Motorworks dropped off a very nice clean-looking 1200GS first thing this morning, actually a year older than my F800S but with a reasonably low number on the clock, and while I have yet to master actually getting aboard (as I am quite short-legged for my 5' 11'') I managed it at no more than the third attempt and it turns out I haven't forgotten to ride yet. Just a quick run out for petrol and then to work this morning, and home again by way of a short trip where some bint in a Kuga didn't want to wait her turn to overtake the car two places ahead of us on the A11. Cut me up, will you? I can stomp you into the dirt any time I like and don't you forget it...!
It's a fun machine. We're both getting on towards retiring age and I think we'll enjoy growing old disgracefully.