Dazman reporting for duty

dazman · Post by **dazman** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:15 pm

Hi everyone

I'm Darren from Shropshire.

My daily commuter is GS1200 in sparkly Tango Orange - not really one for the conventional

Signed up here to get some expert advice on buying an S, probably a R1100 as my budget is probably £3-4k.

Looking some something that is neat, tidy, lowish milage that I can add a little bling and a decent exhaust. Love the Boxer Cup colour ways but might need to save a few more pennies to go down that route.

Are there any sticky threads that I should read and what to look out for?

Cheers

Dazman

nab 301 · Post by **nab 301** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:08 pm

Welcome , no sticky threads but most of the popular stuff is in this thread , anything else just ask.
viewtopic.php?t=17470

Some of the later 11 s have servo brakes which imo are best to avoid and something that came up recently and occasionally over the years is/are the subframe mounting lugs. Poor design easily damaged if dropped / overloaded.

dave the german · Post by **dave the german** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:56 am

Welcome. Look in the for sale section - there's been a few up for sale recently

Herb · Post by **Herb** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:43 am

Welcome.

If you can stretch to the top of your budget, £4k, you are getting into 1200s territory.

Faster, lighter and always draws a crowd. If you don't take a pillion, I would go for the 12.

eyore · Post by **eyore** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:06 am

Hi and welcome.

dazman · Post by **dazman** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:58 am

Thanks for the warm welcome guys.

Have been scouring the sale section, just missed a nice mandarin R1100.

I'm intending to commute on it in the summer but the Mrs will probably want to go pillion on it at the weekends.

Off to have a look at a couple locally at the weekend as I've never actually seen one in the flesh let alone sat on one!

meds8964 · Post by **meds8964** » Sun Jul 28, 2013 7:17 pm

hello and welcome have you found what your looking for

one_bad_mofo · Post by **one_bad_mofo** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 8:45 am

I have my R11 for sale at the moment. It has "a decent exhaust" and a few other bits and bobs,a nd is well within your budget.

Details here - viewtopic.php?t=17958&highlight=