Hi Croc
No pic there,something not quite right with your URL. Try again I wanna see it!
I see the guys at Willingham woods a lot as we pass there on the way to visit family. They own the farm and Willingham Fayre cafe just down the road from the woods. It's been really frustrating the last 5 years only having the XR and being passed in the car by hundreds of guys having fun on that road to Gainsborough but now!! My turn...
Just got in from a 100 mile trip after work with a friend who's running in his brand new 1200GS. Dunno if you know this area but I'm near Holmfirth, went over Holme Moss, Glossop, Edale, Hope and back up the Snake Pass on the way home. 100 miles of twisty mountainous roads like the mountain circuit on the Isle of Man. Fantastic!
Have to say this bike impressed me so much. I'm still getting used to the weight (the XR is almost exactly half the weight of the 1150) and travelling at speed, but I found that if I get the gear right, trust the bike in the corners and give it the berries in the middle it just fires out like a bullet! So solid and sooo much grunt. It did get a bit parky up there so I had to flick on the handwarmers a couple of times...how nice is it to have the warm fingers...it just gets better! Whatamachine! I love this bike!!!
It's gonna cost me a fortune in petrol!!
The embarrassing thing in all this is that my buddy is an academic who works in marketing and did a lot of research for BMW a few years back. Got a free GS1150 as part of the deal as well! I was a respondent in his research and at the time was a loony sport bike nut with ragged knee sliders and a death wish. To say I was less than complimentary about Beemers is an understatement...BUT now I see the light so forgive me. He did bring round a wheelbarrow full of humble pie for me when I told him what I'd bought and I promise to eat it all!
