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Talk Less, Say More
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Moab Utah. Home of wierd red & orange radioactive stuff... And 1 billion tourists.
Posts: 13,182
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The biggest risks with the bike are financial.
1) Major mechanical problems can happen, the spline shearing most aggravating, sometimes ABS, fuel pump failures. There were over 80,000 of these bikes made worldwide, so when a spline does fail you'll hear about it - but you don't hear about the other bikes without issues. Plus, a spline shear immediately leaves you dead in the water, usually for a year as you sort it out.
2) Selling the bike. The R1100S is a niche bike. And people love it or hate it. Selling seems to be to a closed / small market, and it could end up being "garage art." So I say get a pretty one! It does seem things are improving and there are a lot of enthusiasts on the Facebook R1100S group. Not sure if they are mainly Europeans though.
This board grew into both an enthusiast board and "how to" technical board. Most of the member's wanted to know how to perform maintenance and repairs themselves on this donkey bike. So EVERYTHING is here, buried within the threads back to 1998 or so... Best first thing to learn is how to expertly search if you have an interest in doing things yourself.
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2000 Dyna FXDX, 2001 Sportster Sport, 2000 R1100S,2007 R1200S,2015 rNineT,2015 Gold Wing, 2023 F850GS,2023 R1250RS, 2017 Triumph T100, 2019 Jeep Rubicon, 2005 Jeep Sport, 2001 Corvette, 1978 Porsche 928. 2001 GMC Sierra 2500HD, 22 pairs of shoes. 24 bottles of beer.
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