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OK, here I am. Erik from The Lowlands, aka Holland/The Netherlands.
Riding for more then 44 years on various brands and bike, lately sticking to a BMW.

My wife and I both have a full option 2018 R1200RS, icludidng hill assist

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Looks good, and so do the bikes

I knew from my dealer that it was possible on a number of boxer-bikes to have Hill Assist installed. My dealer again was informed bij BMW Netherlands somewhere in August about this. It's a software thing and the only thing the dealer has to do is hook up the bike to the computer and release the package. We only had to pay the bill of € 220 each.

Well, at least our bikes are complete, although we didn't buy the beauty case..

We now own both RSs since March 30, 2018 and we've reached the following milestones.

My wife, the lightweight, has done 8221 km. with an average fuelconsumption of 4.2 ltr per 100 km. Best 3.9 ! The heavy weight, which is me, has ridden 11.331 km's with an average of 4.6 ltr. per 100 km. Best 4.1 !

Not bad, but my bike already needs it's second service now.

Zitat von TenCats im Beitrag #1

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OK, here I am. Erik from The Lowlands, aka Holland/The Netherlands.
Riding for more then 44 years on various brands and bike, lately sticking to a BMW.

My wife and I both have a full option 2018 R1200RS, icludidng hill assist

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Zitat von Boxerboy im Beitrag #7

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Zitat von TenCats im Beitrag #1

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OK, here I am. Erik from The Lowlands, aka Holland/The Netherlands.
Riding for more then 44 years on various brands and bike, lately sticking to a BMW.

My wife and I both have a full option 2018 R1200RS, icludidng hill assist

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Hill Assist in Holland - you must be joking! Or maybe it helps when you tour as I guess you are not so familiar with slipping the clutch . Nice to have you with us!

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4,6 l/100 km

Wow how do you manage to do that

I'm more on the highway than small roads
The best I get is 5,9l/ 100km

I do ride the in dynamic mode

Mvg paffen

It's not that difficult actually. If you are riding in a civilised manner and observe the speed limits this sound normal.

Nice to see the Mrs controlling her own destiny! Mine had the same posture, but alas, lost that drive to ride. Your's appears to have the low seat as do I. Nice that a manufacturer will offer these most important variables. But, I do have to ask, what is that orange and black serving tray looking thingie attached to the rear of the bikes? Nice to have you aboard, Erik. Stick.

Definitely time for an update.

I gave myself a yellow R1250RS for my 66yh bithday in September last year and next week a second yellow R1250RS will join mine in the garage. My dealer traded in a 2020 full option R1250RS sport edition with only 3700 km. so my wife just decided it was going to be hers.
Fine by me as she let's me swap the exhausts.
It also comes with a Wünderlich shop window which I replace with the tinted MRA sportscreen and I have to move the NAV position up usng the Vortex GPS mount bracket.

The "old" one, my 2019 R1250RS

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The "new" one (her 2020 R1250RS comes with the "beauty-case"):

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Traded in after 33.985 km's, goodbye to the 2018 R1200RS:

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You need a tail tidy for those bikes....

I liked the red frame on the 2018

Nah, I don't think so and you can argue about the "tidy". For if you remove that piece of plastic, your back will be soaked by water and mud.