Paging TOG what's it worth?

Hi TOG,

I'd appreciate your advice.

I'm off to New Zealand in a couple of months and I'm trying to decide
whether to sell the bike or ship it.

It's a Black BMW R1150GS Adventure
Condition is good.
First Registered 03/03 so it's a twin spark model.
It has ABS, Heated Grips, Engine Bars and a 30 litre tank but is otherwise
standard.
22,000 miles.
FBMWSH.

TIA

 

For good?

 

Oh yeah, and

******

 

Don't really know yet. But it is a medium to long term rather than a short
term thing. i.e sell / ship bike and car as well as renting out the house.

 

Ooo lucky thing. What are you planning to be doing there?

I've always wanted to visit but *hate* long flights. Probly going to
Singapore around the 25th though, which might break me in gently. Being a
wuss I will probably do a stopover in Bahrain.

 

Work as a Consulting Engineer (i.e what I do here)

When you've done a few long flights you tend to consider a 7 - 8 hour
transatlantic flight relatively short. Having an Ipod / MP3 player helps
while away the time and flying in business class [1] makes the whole thing
more pleasurable. FWIW I'll be stopping in Hong Kong to see my tailor.

1. If the Porsche thread is anything to go by I assume this would be within
your means.

 

You lucky, lucky bastard. If you want to stick with big trailees but
not necessarily a GS, the top aftermarket Tiger parts supplier on the
planet is in Nelson, if that's within spitting distance -
http://www.thunderbike.co.nz/.

 

Cool stuff. Well, I might come and visit, then, because I've always
wanted to go to NZ, and there's some great biking roads there, and now
I've got two mates there (or nearly there).

When are you off?

 

Let me know and I'll meet you over there.

 

You'll be more than welcome.

1/12/04

 

Damn, what's the bike built for? Ride it there!!

 

Good luck with that, big fellah.

<thinks>

It's a fucking long way to come when Shaun breaks down though, innit?

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

Leaves the North Africa run without a support/camera vehicle, too. Selfish
bastard.

 

Big Tony () wrote:
: It's a Black BMW R1150GS Adventure
: Condition is good.
: First Registered 03/03 so it's a twin spark model.
: It has ABS, Heated Grips, Engine Bars and a 30 litre tank but is otherwise
: standard.
: 22,000 miles.
: FBMWSH.

Do Adventures have a short or overdrive 6th gear as standard? I've
ridden my mates non Adv GS and liked it apart from the overdrive 6th.

Blair.
'97 CBR600

 

Yup:

http://www.micapeak.com/bmw/gs/gs_1150.htm

If you don't like the tall 6th, don't use it. It's mainly for relaxed
long-distance/motorway cruising.

 

Adventures are available with the option of a shorter first gear for off
road use but as Platy says the top gear is the same as the standard RGS.

 

platypus emerged from their own little world to say

bzzt

That URL refers to the 1150GS, like mine; it has the tall 6th gear as
standard. As you say, 6th gear is rarely used unless doing over 70mph.

this URL: http://www.micapeak.com/bmw/gs/gs_adv.htm refers to the GSA. It
comes with the normal gear as standard and an optional lower 1st gear. The
tall 6th gear was available as a no cost option too IIRC

 

Just found this. Sue me if the formatting goes west.

Gear Speed at 1,000rpm
R1100GS R1150GS
1st 6.0 mph 6.9 mph
2nd 8.7 mph 8.9 mph
3rd 12.3 mph 11.1 mph
4th 15.3 mph 13.6 mph
5th 18.0 mph 15.7 mph
6th - 20.3 mph

The original is halfway down here:

http://www.micapeak.com/bmw/gs/gs_tel1.html

 

How far is that from you?

 

A 25 minute flight from where I live now. A 20 minute flight from
where I'm moving to.