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- Smith
I don't have a R12GSA, but I do ride a R1150GS.
It is less powerful and heaver. There are things the bike does not do as good as other more specific built bikes. But there are few bikes that will go as far hall as much on all kinds of roads at a pace that should be reserved for the specific built bikes. Mine so far is low mileage at 50,000+ has never exploded onto a ball of fire or puked its final drive all over the road.
I have loaded it down to where it looked more like a Mexican pack mule, burred it in mud and sand to where it would have extinguished any final drive fires, bent corners to the point that I have not had any sport bikes getting board behind me, or pass for that matter.
But most of all I have found NO other motorcycle that will take the abuse of drops, gettoffs, or just plane and simple crashes as a GS and when righted back on the tires in the roadway drive way to continue exploring.
Now that may not be impressive to many riders, but when you are in the middle of nowhere and the over loaded pig your riding decides its time to lay down it is a good feeling that after you strain your guts out getting it picked up it will start and continue on. Instead of leaving broken tupperwear in the hole the pig just made.
It is less powerful and heaver. There are things the bike does not do as good as other more specific built bikes. But there are few bikes that will go as far hall as much on all kinds of roads at a pace that should be reserved for the specific built bikes. Mine so far is low mileage at 50,000+ has never exploded onto a ball of fire or puked its final drive all over the road.
I have loaded it down to where it looked more like a Mexican pack mule, burred it in mud and sand to where it would have extinguished any final drive fires, bent corners to the point that I have not had any sport bikes getting board behind me, or pass for that matter.
But most of all I have found NO other motorcycle that will take the abuse of drops, gettoffs, or just plane and simple crashes as a GS and when righted back on the tires in the roadway drive way to continue exploring.
Now that may not be impressive to many riders, but when you are in the middle of nowhere and the over loaded pig your riding decides its time to lay down it is a good feeling that after you strain your guts out getting it picked up it will start and continue on. Instead of leaving broken tupperwear in the hole the pig just made.
