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BLOFLY 636
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PostPosted: 04:39 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: I must be getting old Reply with quote
just riding home after work the other day and went past a guy on a BMW R1200GS and thought whoooo thats a nice bike! whats happening to me I'm too young to start liking BMW tourer cross bikes but they look really nice and comfortable and sound pretty cool too I don't want to be old noooo! Laughing
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PsychoHippy
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PostPosted: 04:59 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
I agree - you must be getting old. Would you like me to bring you a pipe and slippers? Laughing
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NSR125-Kid-UK
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PostPosted: 05:22 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Look at this bike.
Sexy as puck Very Happy.

So much potential - so little maintenance - unintimidating, friendly, and still capable of making you laugh your arse off Very Happy.
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PsychoHippy
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PostPosted: 06:30 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
NSR125-Kid-UK wrote:
and still capable of making you laugh your arse off Very Happy.

Would that be when you see it ridden? Wink Razz Laughing
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Shaun
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PostPosted: 07:04 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
He has a 636 Andy, you have a shit example of an NSR, you're right though, I'm laughing my arse off at you right now.
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BLOFLY 636
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PostPosted: 07:16 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
yep maybe my days of sport bike riding are coming to an end Crying or Very sad a BMW R 1200GS would be a nice bike for me in time not sure when but I am starting to see the other side of riding, not fast and concentrating on apexs or balance point but rather more enjoying the ride and environment, still love going fast at the track though! just losing my nerve on the roads with all the latest crashes and near misses I see and hear about Confused
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Barker-CBR 600
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PostPosted: 09:57 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Better to be way over the hill..
Than six feet under it.


Same bike Ewan an Charlie went round the world on isnt it?

Or at least theres was the 1000cc version.
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Claud 14.7 to 1
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PostPosted: 11:07 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Buy a separate road bike and a track bike. Thumbs Up
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MarJay
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PostPosted: 11:13 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Barker-CBR 600 wrote:
1000cc version...


1150 Adventure.

KTM were a bit mean to them, but its kind of understandable because it is a couple of rich actors who wanted to get their bikes for free...

Still wouldn't buy a beemer myself. I think I'd just prefer to tour around the world on roads rather than the rutted bumpy dirt that they had to deal with on the long way round! Wink

Wouldn't buy a KTM either, but thats besides the point!
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Ste
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PostPosted: 11:22 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
NSR125-Kid-UK wrote:
Look at this bike.
Sexy as puck Very Happy.

So much potential - so little maintenance - unintimidating, friendly, and still capable of making you laugh your arse off Very Happy.

I'll be sure to point you in the direction of this thread next time you're bitching on IRC about your bike not working.

You are right about it being funny; I'm laughing at it right now but the bike can't do that on it's own, it has to be coupled with one of your posts.

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map
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PostPosted: 13:19 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
...KTM were a bit mean to them, but its kind of understandable because it is a couple of rich actors...

KTM wouldn't give them any bikes because KTM were told their bikes wouldn't make it without terminally breaking and the company would end up looking stupid.

BMW seem to have done well out of the publicity Thumbs Up

In every review and biker comment I've read/heard it's always good things about the GS. I'm told they'll also keep up with some of the exotic stuff on the twisties (but lack umph on straights - but that's what you'd expect). One day I'll have to see if one fits and I can cope with the BMW indicators Wink
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Finglonga
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PostPosted: 14:09 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
map wrote:
One day I'll have to see if one fits and I can cope with the BMW indicators Wink


Indicators are no problem I find them better than the standard arrangement, push left to go left and right to go right, how can anyone get that wrong? I don't and thats saying something. Wink

Compared to some trips been done on the 1150gs and gs Adv Ewans and Charlie's were tame. I have seen vids of them crossing rivers over the top of the seats using a snorkel to the airbox.

The 1200 has not really proved itself as a long distance tourer or globe trotter yet. It seems more aimed at road than dirt track.
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mchaggis
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PostPosted: 15:12 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://fungusgs-spot.info/httpdocs/My%20Videos2/The%20Mountain%20Course.wmv

Here's a rather cool video of a 1200GS hammering round the Isle of Man.
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NSR125-Kid-UK
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PostPosted: 15:51 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shaun wrote:
He has a 636 Andy, you have a shit example of an NSR, you're right though, I'm laughing my arse off at you right now.


Middle Finger Laughing Middle Finger

Ste wrote:
You are right about it being funny; I'm laughing at it right now but the bike can't do that on it's own, it has to be coupled with one of your posts.

Razz


Why? What have I done now? Laughing
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Finglonga
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PostPosted: 16:08 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
mchaggis wrote:
https://fungusgs-spot.info/httpdocs/My%20Videos2/The%20Mountain%20Course.wmv

Here's a rather cool video of a 1200GS hammering round the Isle of Man.


It an 1150gs, that guy goes there every year. Wink
This is the bike in question.....
https://fungusgs-spot.info/picture_library/GS1.JPG
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foxbat
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PostPosted: 18:57 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice vid McHaggis _ i definitely want one now.

He/she must know the circuit well or is just super-confident. I didn't think the 1200GS was that quick!
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Josh|RD125LC
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PostPosted: 19:04 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
BMW's are for old codgers. Stay well away unless you are over the age of 50. As for Andy's NSR, I like it. I always wanted a NSR as my 125 but I got an RD instead. Only thing I don't like about the newer NSR's is that they look way too low for me. But still wicked bikes.

P.S. Andy I love that helmet its really cool Thumbs Up
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G
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PostPosted: 19:38 - 22 Mar 2005    Post subject: Reply with quote
I always liked the GS range. (Old godger I may be, though Smile ).

They are a go-anywhere bike that can handle the open road as well. Not sure about all the new fangled gadgets they have these days though.

My parents went around on a BMWR60/6 in the 70s... It was actually a road designed bike, but still very good for crossing deserts on.
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