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Midlife K-risis · Flying Brick Rider Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Posts: 166

OK, wrong forum, but I just went over to the dark side (the K1200 one that is Laughing

) and I got lots of questions. The folks over at the BMW superbike forum don't seem to be very helpful. I just bought a 99 K1200RS with 50,000 miles on it for $3900, which I thought was a steal, but it's got a couple of (hopefully minor) issues. The ABS light keeps flashing (and the guy says it has a new battery), the temp gauge doesn't work and it needs a new rear tire. Other than that, everything seems OK. The engine did seem to make a rather clunky noise in idle when just started up cold, that goes away when it warms up. Is that normal? Also, the rear drive has a slight 'clunk' sometimes when changing gears. My K1100 doesn't do that. The K1200 doesn't require a 50,000 mile spline lube like the K1100 does it? Shocked

God, I hope not.
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Flying Duck · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a good deal to me. Hopefully the ABS issue is easy.

I'd recommend the following forums:

http://www.bmbikes.org.uk/Forum/viewforum.php?f=13

http://www.k-bikes.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=42

http://bmwsporttouring.com/
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CheapJapCopy · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject:

I'm going to add a tuppence here..

I did some training with a guy who had an 03 K1200RS while I was on my old K100RT. One thing I noticed about the K12 was that it was NOISY - at idle especially. It was low mileage and seemed to be in perfect order, but it outshone my old K as far as knocks and rattles went, by a long chalk.

Obviously this varies from bike to bike, but my advice is don't worry about rumblings and rattles from the engine, look at it as solid evidence of overengineering Laughing

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Technician · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject:

I'm a member of the site listed below but have become very inactive as they seem to have gone mainly K1200 minded so it maybe useful to have a read through for you.

http://www.bikersoracle.com/kseries/forum/
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Midlife K-risis · Flying Brick Rider Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Posts: 166

Thanks for the replies, guys. I'll look into these sites. I've been reading a little bit more on the K1200 and it does seem to be a bit noisy in idle. Don't know what would cause that, the timing chain maybe? Oh, and duck: you'll get yer pichers, but I haven't even taken posession of the bike yet, so patience, please Wink

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