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- From: Chuck.Cole@f78.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Chuck Cole)
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- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: ST1100 info.?
- Message-ID: <727725990.AA08319@tdkt.kksys.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:12:18 -0600
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- Hello Steve Bunis (doc@webrider.central.sun.com ),
-
- In REC.MOTO on <Jan 19 23:19> to All, you wrote:
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- (re: used ST1100)..
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- SB> The bike looks interesting, though I don't know how good a deal
- SB> the price is. I would like to get feedback from anyone
- SB> familiar with this model. I'm looking to be able to do long
- SB> trips, but also to get around locally without feeling like
- SB> I'm on a tank.
-
- The price is high for getting similar age and better performance. I've never
- ridden nor seriously considered an ST1100 myself (partly because it is so very
- heavy, and partly because I have no need or desire to replace my 1985 BMW K100RS
- I bought a year old at $4,000). One fellow who had recently traded his and his
- wife's pair of matched Goldwings in for matched ST1100s (to do "sport touring",
- of course), told me with great pride how sore his arms got from riding twisties
- several hundred miles. That tells me that he was either frozen in panic, or
- that the bike steers like a cruiser (gross trail, heavy steering: finesse of a
- hog). I'm very sure that I would consider an ST1100 as sporty as a "honey
- dipper's" tank truck with a half-full tank.
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