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Originally Posted by twitchy
I want to see if it's just me or does your R1100s attract a lot of attention. I have been riding for over 45 years and have had many rare bikes for the time.
In 1978 I bought a new Moto Guzzi Lemans. It attracted attention because no one even knew what it was, never mind see one.
In 1992 I bought a new Ducati 900ss. They only started making the 900ss in 1991 and they were very rare. I had people tell me they read about them, but never saw one. I had one guy when I was riding in NY State come up to me when I was getting gas and say, "Wow Ducati, I never saw one of those. Does Honda make it?"
Now I have a 2004 Mandarin and Titan Gray R1100s. I bought it 3 years ago with 7,000 miles and now it has 40,000 miles on it. I have people approach me all the time to talk to me about it and tell me how beautiful they think it is.
I was using it this morning. I had to get gas on my way out. It was 6:15am and most people are on there way to work. I had a man in a HVAC van get gas next to me. He started pumping his gas and then crouched down to look at the front end of my bike.
He asked me how I liked it, and then told me he thought it was beautiful. He also said, "I have heard of these but never saw one. It is beautiful. I really like the colors".
Do others have the same experience with this bike?
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I definitely know what you are talking about. My buddy and I both ride Boxercup's. We get inundated with people and questions everywhere we go. Mainly though it seems to be from non-motorcyclist. We do get attention from motorcyclist, but never have I seen as much attention from the clueless. Most of that I think is directly related to the BMW logo on it. I don't know if you have seen that video with the guy watching the train go by at 2 mph and he goes ape over it because it is some rarebird. Well last year we had a guy pull up in a car at a gas station with his GF in the car and that is about what he did. Telling her that he had never seen one in person and how rare they are and how even rarer it was to see not one, but two of them. But now we were in Tennessee up in the mtns and for us it is about as rare to see a New York plate, which was what he had. I'm sure you had to be there. But when we used to ride Gixxers and pretty much everything else under the sun, hardly anyone every paid any attention to us.