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Dibs the stem, pm to follow

dibs super record rear mech

payment sent for bars and stem.

If you must have active noise cancel they are very good, but that's best for planes and other droning noise environments. For a good pair of well isolated phones ATH M50 (lots of fakes about) or Sennheiser HD25 are on ear, HD25's great for round town.

S classes and G wagons are the only ones still built in Germany.

The G Wagen has only ever been hand built in Austria (Graz), in the same factory since the beginning. It's the longest running mercedes model. It's really built like a tank :)

dibs campione del mondo 66-44

PM'd you last night with offer for bars/stem

Maxi scooter had been on my list of possibilities, thinking about doing the knowledge. Mixing it up with a pushbike.

The 1150's look great, I like the low loading on the R80, nice and stable when I'm carrying toolboxes or building materials. Interesting that you've found them good value, maybe I'm just looking at it wrong.

I'm keeping mine anyway, hopefully the left hand problem is just an injury from lifting a dishwasher.

Forgot to say, I do ride hard. Touring on hire bikes in the states I was using more fuel than the other 3 bikes covering the same distance.

I've checked the fuel mix throughout the time I've owned it using colortune. It's more likely I've got my numbers mixed up, shit happens. Its not exactly economical even at 45mpg.

Did you find the cost of ownership low with the R100?

Something seriously wrong with that fuel usage. Has it been re-jetted etc?

No, it's running fine. Last time I filled it was 18lt (23.50) I expect that will do what it normally does around 127 miles that's 30 mpg (in town). Longer trips are usually much better.

The stated figures are more like 59 mpg. That's not the kind of riding I do, you could make it go a lot further at a constant speed, but sitting around in traffic idling etc. chews up the fuel.

Beemer indicators are a lot more sensible than the usual ones I find. They always put the horn button in entirely the wrong place though.

Yeah - how come R's a expensive to run? You can do it all DIY with about 3 spanners and a socket, and they are more or less indestructible?

With the indicators I was thinking along the lines of cars, where you get used to the indicators on one side, then change car and end up washing the windscreen at every junction!

With the R80 everything that goes wrong costs a lot of money to replace/fix. True you can get the heads off to change the push rod mushrooms (a common cause of oil leaks) in a day, but you do need a piston ring compressor & torque wrench and probably new exhaust manifold connectors/spanner (finned type) since the old ones will likely be seized. Last time I did that simple job it cost £60 quid in parts, £40 in tools.

It got knocked over by a car while parked one time, I was on holiday. Cost £600 to fix the forks and panniers. Car style clutch cost me £500 to get changed, mind you that was BMW, and probably not good value. Batteries only last a few years and they're £80. New brake discs which do crack occasionally are £500 a pair. Second hand parts where available are ok but prices are still high.

Fuel is £25 per tank for 120-130 miles in town, not much better on longer runs. But insurance is cheap.

I only ride a few thousand miles a year on it, and I may be out of touch with the cost of other bikes but parts and fuel costs are quite high. They do run very well once you balance the carbs (again £80 for the tool to do that). It's a bit of a dream that you can fix them with a couple of spanners.

Thinking it would be more like indicators on the left stalk indicators on the right stalk in a car. Wouldn't do it more than a few times before it sunk in.

Saw you posting a lot of R100's, I've had an R80/7 for 8 years. Great bikes, mine live on the street so it's not in great external condition. Expensive bikes to run though.

There is also a traditional gear pedal, for which you do have to slacken the revs (never used it). It also rides as fully automatic. There are four gear modes to choose from when you switch on: Touring; Sport; Sport gear and Rain.

Think it wIll be difficult to adjust back to a normal clutch after a few months/years of using the traditional gear pedal with no clutch?

I'll try and get a test ride on this though, tendonitis in my left hand makes it hard to ride more than a few hours in town.

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Hi Hilary

Bar no. 6 which I paid you for early december (1 month ago), still not arrived. Could you answer the pm's ?

Thanks for the mechs.

dibs the mechs

un-dib the rear mech. Thanks for the condors.

dibs rear mech, subject to viewing.

dibs tektro 4.1 & condor cross tops

dibs chop flops

Sorry undibs, not looking for tubulars.

dibs the campag on mavic gp4 + the chorus rear mech

How bad are the bearings?, can they be replaced/greased?