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- From: marcl@os-d.isc-br.com (H. Marc Lewis)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: ST1100 info.?
- Message-ID: <marcl.727921903@os-d>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 00:31:43 GMT
- References: <727725990.AA08319@tdkt.kksys.com>
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- Chuck.Cole@f78.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Chuck Cole) writes:
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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.
-
- Chuck, you really should *RIDE* an ST1100 before condeming it. I too owned
- a 1985 BMW K100RS (for 5 years and 30K+ miles) and I now own a 1992 ST1100
- ABS/TCS model. The ST1100 is a much better bike, in almost all respects.
- In particular, it's more trouble free, it's quieter and offers better wind
- and rain protection, it handles better in parking lots and loose gravel, and
- it's saddle bags are far superior in quality and ease of use. As for riding
- agressively, the ST1100 is the K-bike's equal at least up to serious
- racetrack speeds. True, the ST1100 is heavier, but it *FEELS* lighter,
- especially when doing low-speed maneuvering, like parking and U-turns.
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