Three years into recovering from a test ride, I have determined without doubt that there are at least a couple of problems to RR ownership.
1. My Tahoe has considerable problems maintaining battery charge, and the tires tend to leak down on pressure. This has required me to purchase a float charger and set a recurring reminder on my iPhone to check the battery water and tires monthly.
2. It takes FOREVER to get anywhere riding the RR. The mileage between my home and the downtown courthouse seems to have doubled or tripled, the road is much twistier than in the Tahoe. The interstate roadways seem to have shrunk into two lane and sometime single lane things requiring a lot of lock-to-lock maneuvering. A side effect is that my face hurts after taking these overly extended trips. My doctor says this is a common effect from permagrin.
Anybody here noticed this or any other RR ownership problems, or is it just me?
MSF #127350 NAUI #36288
2011 RT WARNING: TEST RIDING THE R1200R IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR FINANCES
I have much the same problems, but with a BMW M3. It gets neglected. Given the choice of wash/wax the M3 and wash/wax/farkle/ride the R12R - there isn't really a choice. I look at the M3 as just transportation, it makes me feel better about it.
BTW - new "farkle" to get/try tomorrow - a personal one. FirstGear came out with gloves made for heated grips. Uninsulated palm, insulated back. Dealer got them in for me - called yesterday - gotta go get'm tomorrow. Will report back on how well they work. I should also do a quick report sometime soon on my "hot-poo" butt heater. Works a charm when temps are below 35F..
Don Eilenberger - NJ Shore
2012 R1200R - I love this bike!
Riding in Sunny Southern California I was wondering if you had some kind of plug in mini fridge gadget to recommend for the R1200R ?
I'll store in this fridge some Iced Matcha Green tea which is excellent for riding awareness---> particularly this brand : http://www.earthhealers.com/you_2_matcha.htm This is a very efficient and natural metabolic booster... will speed your awareness with hot flashes included. A great full body Warmer
Try It !
If it Work for Me
It will work for you !
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deilenberger wrote:
BTW - new "farkle" to get/try tomorrow - a personal one. FirstGear came out with gloves made for heated grips. Uninsulated palm, insulated back. Dealer got them in for me - called yesterday - gotta go get'm tomorrow. Will report back on how well they work. I should also do a quick report sometime soon on my "hot------" butt heater. Works a charm when temps are below 35F..
How well would they insulate your palms from rapidly moving asphalt?
deilenberger wrote:
BTW - new "farkle" to get/try tomorrow - a personal one. FirstGear came out with gloves made for heated grips. Uninsulated palm, insulated back. Dealer got them in for me - called yesterday - gotta go get'm tomorrow. Will report back on how well they work. I should also do a quick report sometime soon on my "hot------" butt heater. Works a charm when temps are below 35F..
How well would they insulate your palms from rapidly moving asphalt?
Note the heel of the hand mention - it's a hard ceramic plate that covers the heel of your hand.. designed to slide on pavement rather than catch or grind through the leather. The palms also have dual layers of goatskin in strategic spots (with gel between the layers) - again for palm protection. These are seriously nice (and not cheap) gloves. Just can't find ones that fit me. The mediums were a bit tight, the large have fingers about 1" too long.
Don Eilenberger - NJ Shore
2012 R1200R - I love this bike!
deilenberger wrote:
BTW - new "farkle" to get/try tomorrow - a personal one. FirstGear came out with gloves made for heated grips. Uninsulated palm, insulated back. Dealer got them in for me - called yesterday - gotta go get'm tomorrow. Will report back on how well they work. I should also do a quick report sometime soon on my "hot------" butt heater. Works a charm when temps are below 35F..
How well would they insulate your palms from rapidly moving asphalt?
BTW - when are you getting your R1200R?
Don Eilenberger - NJ Shore
2012 R1200R - I love this bike!
deilenberger wrote:
BTW - when are you getting your R1200R?
I retire from the Navy on 1 July. Once I have a job nailed down I will start negotiating with SWMBO. Too bad, there is a very clean 2008 with 1200 miles on sitting down at the dealer for 11500. Although the squid in me keeps wanting to try the K1300S...and the practical side wants the F800ST. I really want the used R1200R so I can turn it into the AC Schnitzer Roadstar which I find very cool...
My problem with R12R ownership: my 1996 Grand Caravan had to have a solar charger to keep the battery up. Finally, after putting less than 800 miles on it last year, I made the decision to put it on Craigslist. I had to pay insurance, registration, and a condo parking fee, just to use it to haul big stuff. I decided I can rent a U-Haul pickup for $30 a day if the need arises. Now I'm lean and mean: down to a the Boxer. SWMBO has a Prius if we need to go somewhere at night and it's raining and she has to get dressed up. So the R12R killed my beloved van!
And Don, you just had to hijack this thread with information highly dangerous to a recovering glove slut. I just bought some Lee Parks Design deer/elk skin gloves whose Outlast phase-change liner seems to conduct heat from the grips to the back of the hand... and you thought the First Gear gloves were not cheap!
After 2 weeks and 1200 miles My problem with R12R ownership:Is that I went back on my 1992 Suzuki GSX1100G to make it run a little while I Craiglist it and I almost crashed in my residential street at 15mph.. .. the bike seemed so so heavy compare to the R1200R...I was scared and didn't requognize the bike I used to ride everyday for 4 years !
I am buying this by the way http://www.hippohands.com/index.htm not entirelly for the warmth as I am in southern California but despite the dangerosity in case of crash I like to ride confortably without gloves and have direct contact with the handlebar.
In addition this thing is quite ugly as its funtionality is so obvious but this is why I like it...
Yes in fact you did. That is also one of my favorite reasons for loving this bike. To be able to pull away from young squids on those twisty roads with hard luggage mounted. Western North Carolina is full of great places to ride.
The AC Schnitzer does look cool.
Mark
What is happening to my skin?
Where is that protection that I needed?
Air can hurt you too
Hi all,I'm fairly new to motorcycles. Found the r1200r the most inspiring ride on a bike I've ever had. We have some lovely flat clear sweeping broad and tight curves round here. This bike took care of them so effortlessly at speeds I couldn't have dreamed of. I thought I was running into them a little too hot but without any panic just leaned over rolled some throttle on gently and the bike did the rest. I have just a couple of mm chicken strips left without honestly trying. The only concern i have is not getting too dingle on this bike. Just riding to work and leaning round safe suburban corners has me grinning. God knows what the car drivers think. Not that you go looking for it,but even had a M/C cop check out the bike. They ride R1200RTs here.
ShinySideUp wrote:
And Don, you just had to hijack this thread with information highly dangerous to a recovering glove slut. I just bought some Lee Parks Design deer/elk skin gloves whose Outlast phase-change liner seems to conduct heat from the grips to the back of the hand... and you thought the First Gear gloves were not cheap! I've grown to like their softness and, for their warmth, they're the most pliable gloves I've owned.
Back to regularly scheduled programming....
Ditto on the phase change gloves... I have had them about 3 months now and went for a ride in 32 degree weather this morning. Turned on the grip heaters to broil and enjoyed the warmth all over. They work well on hot days too. Amazing stuff in there.
BTW: If you like those phase change gloves, try the lightweight elkskins... they are so soft I had to buy my Boss lady a set because she threatened to hijack mine until I paid up !
FredeR1200Ric wrote:Riding in Sunny Southern California I was wondering if you had some kind of plug in mini fridge gadget to recommend for the R1200R ?
I'll store in this fridge some Iced Matcha Green tea which is excellent for riding awareness---> particularly this brand : http://www.earthhealers.com/you_2_matcha.htm This is a very efficient and natural metabolic booster... will speed your awareness with hot flashes included. A great full body Warmer
Try It !
If it Work for Me
It will work for you !
I hate to tell you, but Southern California sucks. I lived in Orange County for 30+ years (birth to 30 years old). I don't care how "sunny" Southern California is, it is the pit of the US. I find that most people that love the "weather" in Southern Cal are from up north.
I could not be more agree with you... I am French and American... grew in Paris and few other European city's for 35 years of my life. And while riding my bike, pissed-off of having to deal with the way Los Angeles is designed and all Supper Mega Fukkked Up it is I often call it " Los Angeles the Rape of Human Kind ! " indeed this city to me is one of the most inhuman and unpleasant city I ever lived in but it can be sometimes also very nice to live there... that's what make its charm ! indeed as you wrote almost "everything sucks" in Los Angeles or southern California but the few things that DO NOT SUCKS make millions of peoples to move here and often stay forever.
And YES ! I agree too Orange County beside its new fun super wide and flat Freeways is one of the most boring and conservative suburb I ever browsed trough in Los Angeles... Super Malls --> Corporate Buildings ---> Parkings ---> Churches ---> Gaited Community's ---> Parkings --->Cops ---> Super Malls --> Churches ---> Gaited Community's ---> Parkings ---> Cops ---> Corporate Buildings ---> Gaited Community's --->Cops ---> Parkings ---> Super Malls --> Parkings ---> Cops ---> Corporate Buildings ---> Churches ---> Parkings --->Cops ---> Corporate Buildings ---> Churches ---> WELCOME IN SUNNY ORANGE COUNTY !
But try like me at a nice 110Mph the 405 or 5 freeway at 3am during weekdays when it is empty and you might suddenly like just a little more this area....Obviously YES because you'r going trough it in less than 10 minutes.
My deep sentiment about it is What Southern California or even Los Angeles has to give
It already has it before it was American territory or even Named as Los Angeles.
Space, Sun, Ocean, Mountains, Wind, Oranges, Avocado's etc etc forget hollywood, orange county and its emptiness.
Voila Mon Ami
Have a great week end !
PS:"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles," once joked the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
FredeR1200Ric wrote:Riding in Sunny Southern California I was wondering if you had some kind of plug in mini fridge gadget to recommend for the R1200R ?
If i Work for Me
I will work for you !
I hate to tell you, but Southern California sucks. I lived in Orange County for 30+ years (birth to 30 years old). I don't care how "sunny" Southern California is, it is the pit of the US. I find that most people that love the "weather" in Southern Cal are from up north.
Outnabout, You need to keep that sort of talk quiet. We certainly don't need the residents of Southern California catching on and moving here to N.C. or East Tn.
Mark
What is happening to my skin?
Where is that protection that I needed?
Air can hurt you too
A great full body Warmer 
