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Offline wardie

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1994 BMW R 1100 RS
« on: July 16, 2020, 01:19:48 PM »
Pearle White with Factory Aqua seat. Tool Kit, Owners Manuals included.
Staintune exhaust, factory panniers and like new tires.
87,000 miles. Recent oil and filter change.

Located in Canfield, Ohio about 60 miles south of Cleveland, Ohio

$2995.00
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Offline David_Hammer

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Re: 1994 BMW R 1100 RS
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2020, 04:15:58 PM »
Cool looking ride!


Can you please share the reason you're selling it and if you'd advise riding it 1.000+ miles if you were buying it?

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Re: 1994 BMW R 1100 RS
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2020, 02:47:09 PM »
If you're looking for a general recommendation for this particular model, I'll give you one. I rode an R1100RS in the 2005 Iron Butt Rally. I rode almost 12,500 miles in 11 days and the bike ran flawlessly. Alas, a couple of years later it didn't survive a California crash. I recently purchased a 1996 R1100RS that has turned out to be more of a project than I'd hoped. Had I not done that, I might have considered this purchase myself. It's a fair price for a model that I like a lot.


By the way...pearl white IS the best color.
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Re: 1994 BMW R 1100 RS
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2020, 03:19:35 PM »
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Re: 1994 BMW R 1100 RS
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2020, 08:41:33 PM »
With the understanding that I know nothing of the service history of the bike, with reasonable past maintenance, it's likely got a lot of life left in it. I've seen them priced more aggressively than $3k, but that probably means they have issues.

The RS does not have an extreme seating position, but it's also not an RT with a sit up and beg seating position. If you don't like a little (reasonable) forward lean, keep looking. If you are really long legged, think carefully as the seat to peg distance since it isn't as generous as, well, an RT.
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