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Originally Posted by throttlemeister
Well I can still find plenty of references to CAN bus on the R1100S, but it could be introduced only with the latest models. Or I could be talking out of me *** again due to the wonderful way BMW documents their stuff.  |
LOL. Well, I don't think that's true. I think there is just some misunderstandings due to BMW's excellent, well-rounded communication.
At any rate, the two things in the article that set me off is that Anton mentions the CANBUS being part of the 'new' 1200's. The date of the article was 2006 and the R11S was not made after 2005 to my knowledge. Secondly, there is a sentence explaining how the 'older' wiring works near the middle of the write-up. There is a phrase, "Since the R1100 models didn't have this wiring..." (referring to CANBUS).
Like I said, I've seen those articles mentioning the R11S and CANBUS as well, so I suppose it depends on what source we want to go with. From what I've seen and heard, Anton is a very good source to go by so I guess I'm saying that my bike does NOT have CANBUS at this point
Nail24 also cleverly pointed out that CANBUS = no fuses, and this seems to correspond to Anton's diagram in his explanation of CANBUS.
I am in no way knowledgable about these bikes as one would see from other posts that I've made. But I can say that I do understand a little more after reading Anton's write-up.
Matt