NHighCotton wrote:what do you think of the butt ugly speedo and tach? IMO it stinks, so does the oil cooler but, next year when the price of a used one is half of a new one, I might take a ride.
I like the speedo and tach. Speedo could have been a little bigger for a better reading but thats maybe change if I get use to it. Maybe if you are used to the R1150R speedo and tach you can think this is not that "big and beatiful elektromecanic thing" as the old one but this is electronic, light and easy and gives you a lot of more information than the old one. Thats cool. One very good thing is the "gear indicator". I read it very clear with my sunglasses on. On my R1150R I have been try to shift when I was riding in 6th gear a lot of time. No more with this machin. Nice to have this tankmeter thats telling you how long you can go on the petrol in your tank.
One thing more I miss is a "hugger" because you couldt "look right in" under the sadel from your tire side and I suppose the dirt can do so to.
But, but if you ride it and compare it to your old R1150R, and I say this even I have not sold my old one yet, it feels that you have takeing a R1150R, get it to the gym and it have been so much lighter, so much stronger so it have been a completly new much better motorcycle. It looks like the old one but not a thing is the same. Go and try it and find out yourself... Okey, I admit, small tank, bad place cooler and ugly cans and now the hugger, it have same shortcoming but it sure is a very, very nice bike to ride... and if they have make it in red...
mcroad with 95830km today on my R1150R
(95 830 kilometer = 59 546.001 352 104 mile
A small reduction in tank capacity really doesn't mean a lot, particularly when the hexheads get significantly better mileage than oilheads in all their incarnations released so far--most people, regardless of how expensive their seat is, are ready for a stop after a couple of hours 
