r12s How many?

[Guest24]

Originally Posted by Sofatester

Outstanding !

Ehhhhhh.......... I mean your posting, not the BMW strategy.


I also fear they will be just keep on building two wheeled dumper trucks called "GS" or "RT".

My conclusion is only a bit different from yours:
I'm gonna buy a 2nd R1200S instead of a HP2S in addition to my existing R1200S.

Lars, is the second 12S for parts?

[shreddr]

If you scroll back you will see where he said he bought the rear end of an R1100S to graft onto an R12S so he can tour with his girl.

[Dr. Curve]

With all this talk about rear ends on both the HP2 Sport and the R12S...........if anyone wants to see how fast either will really go.......I have a NEW, never even unwrapped, 2.62 rear end that will fit either bike. I paid full pop......which was LOT........but the project is never going to happen, as time has caught up with me. Any reasonable offer from a Pelican brother will be gladly accepted. New, in the factory box and plastic. Complete, ready to bolt up, and go. I believe that both the HP2 and the R12 S have 2.75 ratios as stock.

[WilyB]

I did some research and the lowest US VIN I can find is 016 (sold in CO, then ND and finally MN) and the highest is 516 (CO, then CA).

So, unless a cargo sank in the middle of the Atlantic with a few dozens R1200S onboard, there should have been 500 R1200S titled in the US.

How many are left today?

[WilyB]

However I also found this from the R1200R forum:

https://www.r1200rforum.com/threads/nhtsa-recall-announced.8473/

Using the NHTSA recall figures:
2005-2011 R1200 GS 12,996units
2006-2011 R1200 GS Adv. 6,201
2006 HP2 Enduro 364
2008-2009 HP2 Megamoto 93
2005-2011 R1200RT 12,542units
2007-2011 R1200R 2,163units
2005-2007 R1200ST 554
2007 R1200S 477
2008-2010 HP2 Sport 196

[shreddr]

I would have guessed a much higher number. That means the R12S is as rare in the US as the HP2S


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[ckcarr]

I think I came up with that same number when I bought my second R1200S, which is Vin No# ZP30512

My first one I had bought, was ZP30072

I would guess the really early numbers, like ZP30001 were probably gifts to some friend of the company. So the question would be which were real sales?

Originally Posted by WilyB

I did some research and the lowest US VIN I can find is 016 (sold in CO, then ND and finally MN) and the highest is 516 (CO, then CA).

So, unless a cargo sank in the middle of the Atlantic with a few dozens R1200S onboard, there should have been 500 R1200S titled in the US.

How many are left today?

[WilyB]

@ckcarr I checked a few VIN between 001 and 015 and there is no record of them having been titled. Now I did not check all 15 of them, just may be 3 or 4.

Interestingly 016 first title record dates from 2012.

[hellfishtat]

The BMW dealer in Raleigh told me less than 500 were sold in the US. I had read on this forum that the # was 432 in the US The real question is how many have been wrecked/totaled or simply parted out in the past 14 yrs.

Mine is ZP30131