Calling Winger

sandbar · Post by **sandbar** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:20 pm

At a cursory glance, there is no mention of ESA or ABS.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/04-BMW-K1200S-Stu ... dZViewItem

sandbar

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:50 pm

He put a bid in for the very same bike last year and the seller foolishly rejected his offer

winger · Post by **winger** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:52 pm

It's a long story!!!,i offered him £6500 last september and he turned it down,gave me a load of tosh about how much he paid for it,and then went on the K1200 site and told a totally different story saying a lot less,so i've just left him to stew,which reminds me some geezer has been dissing your hugger on the K site,but thanks for the heads up.

What he's forgotten to say!!!! the bike was sent back to Germany with all the other 04's and spent months in bits being fixed by the factory!!!!,and didn't surface to 06!!!

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boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:54 pm

winger wrote:.........some geezer has been dissing your hugger.............
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Is that Yam Yam slang ?

sandbar · Post by **sandbar** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:36 pm

winger wrote:..... some geezer has been dissing your hugger on the K site,.........

Which forum? Couldn't find it on the two that I frequent.

sandbar

winger · Post by **winger** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:47 pm

Bikers Oracle k1200,under the posting 'finally'.

sandbar · Post by **sandbar** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:03 pm

winger wrote:Bikers Oracle k1200,under the posting 'finally'.

Thanks for that. Found it and registered.

It doesn't seem to have aroused much comment. I think I will let sleeping dogs lie for the moment.

sandbar

winger · Post by **winger** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:45 am

Actually the story started when Andrew S PM'd me about a guy who was selling his K on the VFR site!!! don't ask i've no idea,he'd been moaning previously about the vibration on the said site and some wag asked him if he'd sorted it,which left him somewhat embarassed.
I phoned him, had a decent chat,but he's a serial bike buyer and has been caught with his pants down because the 1200 is pretty speaclised,and there ain't that many buyers,it's the same old story,bikers buy e'm with their hearts and then try and sell with their heads.
The K are going through a funny time,it's all right buying these bits of kit with all the bells and whistles at big bucks,but when their a few years old with some miles on,it's selling e'm,have a look at the grey K on e-bay with 19,000 on hasn't even drawn a bid,and now the servo's are starting to play up on them,and hence why BM have taken them of this years model.

Must go Boxerpans just turned up he wants his coffee and biscuits!!!

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:47 pm

winger wrote: Must go Boxerpans just turned up he wants his coffee and biscuits!!!

Very nice refreshments thank you - cheers for your assist this lunchtime and good luck dealing with the knobs that inhabit the NEC

PBBoxer · Post by **PBBoxer** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:52 pm

Winger, as an aside, Tiger 955i. Do you think thy handle well enough when being pushed and have you done anything to improve yours? Im looking at on on ebay at the moment. Rode keiths last year and it was Ok, but felt really soft. Nice linear motor tho

winger · Post by **winger** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:21 pm

NEC was interesting,not half as much as the free tray of food that my missus dropped all over the floor of my van!!!,good job i'd eaten half of it!!.

Triumph Tiger!!,blimey were do a start,no matter which 955 you buy you'll have to change the fork springs and put 15wt oil in,the latter one don't have a cross bar which is really usefull but you can buy a Toura-Tech one that gets the job done.

As for mine,i started with Ohlins springs in the front and the 15wt oil,changed the rear shock for Ohlin,the stock brakes are Ok,but took them off and put Beringers on with full floating discs,changed the original spoked wheels to 17" on the front from a 19 and put a 5 1/2" rim on the back so i could use the same rubber as on the S,finally took them off,and replaced them with the same size but 7 spoke dymags,run an extra tooth on the engine sprocket which drops the revs bike 500,there's also an airbox mod together with a K+N and the offroad Tune that Triumph can install,i rate as one of the greats for covering distance on.

PBBoxer · Post by **PBBoxer** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:25 pm

Thanks very much.
Stuck between vstrom, tdm and this nice tiger on ebay

PBBoxer · Post by **PBBoxer** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:27 pm

or biting the bullet and finding a ktm 950 adv

Gromit · Post by **Gromit** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:07 pm

PBBoxer wrote:Thanks very much.
Stuck between vstrom, tdm and this nice tiger on ebay

Fook me PB - seeing you ride Keith's Tigger I'd say they handle reasonably well.

Reading up on ADVRider, seems the old V-Strom's a bit of a dark horse too, by all accounts. A bit lame out of the crate but does respond very well to some fettling. Lovely engine - and cheap as chips too.

I've always liked the idea of a KTM but they're bloody complicated - it's nigh on a half-day job to change the oil (you won't believe what's involved!).

julian · Post by **julian** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:09 pm

Gromit wrote:
PBBoxer wrote:Reading up on ADVRider, seems the old V-Strom's a bit of a dark horse too, by all accounts. A bit lame out of the crate but does respond very well to some fettling. Lovely engine - and cheap as chips too.

Real man's engine that - softened TL1000 motor.

There was a write up in the last month or so in PB or Bike.