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Trade your Guzzi for a BMW R1100 RSL?
Motosan:
I realize this may be sacrilegious to post here but I just wanted to see if anyone would be interested in trading a Guzzi for my 96 R1100 RSL. Only 18k miles, owned by my father - a life long BMW rider. Only issue is one fork seal needs to be replaced, weeping a bit. Other than that it's in great shape, lots of new body work replaced. Great touring bike. I already have a SP1000 but at this point I would trade if for just about any vintage Guzzi: 850t, T3, CX100, Ambo etc. I'm located in NYC. Here's the craigslist post with photos of the bike. http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/mcy/4828193395.html
Thanks,
LowRyter:
nice looking bike with classic styling before BMW got strange. I'm a little leery of the early ABS that was trouble prone.
Kev m:
Almost the exact 96 I had... except mine was an RSA.
Nice bike in a lot of ways, but I much prefer my Guzzis.
The only trouble I ever had with the ABS is that it didn't like low voltage at startup on an old battery and would go into trouble mode.
Motosan:
--- Quote from: LowRyter on January 06, 2015, 10:54:58 AM ---nice looking bike with classic styling before BMW got strange. I'm a little leery of the early ABS that was trouble prone.
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It's true, the design of this model has held up well esp compared with other beemers of that period. The RS only had the fairing that went halfway down the bike but the RSL has the entire lower fairing which looks much more complete.
I don't mind the ABS, it breaks well and you can still break hard with it.
Antietam Classic Cycle:
--- Quote from: Motosan on January 06, 2015, 11:12:26 AM ---
I don't mind the ABS, it breaks well and you can still break hard with it.
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I don't want brakes that break well or hard, I want brakes that stop the bike! ;)
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