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Question for the forum: Is the motorsports edition different than the HP model? The HP I have is from 2013 and seems to just have some carbon fiber bits that make it different.
Excellent! Thanks for the background Lee, mine is indeed a 2012 model that was sold in 2013.
Andy
1999 K1200RS Yellow Checkerboard
2004 K1200RS Blue/White
2012 K1300S HP Black
One more item unique to the HP was the rear seat cowl.
Also for bikes sold in other countries the dark tinted shield was standard on the HP.
Welcome to the forum Andy.
The S is far more comfortable than it looks. We've done multiple 800+ mile days on the K1200S K1300S bikes and if our knees would take it we'd still be on one. Absolutely the finest sport touring bike ever made. Congrats !!Thanks to all who have helped especially Lee. Am buying a 2015 motorsports edition with 3591 miles in Nashville Tenn. Only 165 miles from Louisville KY. This will make a nice bookend for my 2016 R1200RT. One to play the other to travel.
This dyno will include a dyno tune. Hoping for around 175 RWHP.
I'd be very impressed if you get that result. Ideally it would be nice to do one mod (Power Commander), test, then the other mod (pipe). Keep us posted!
I will be too if it makes 175 RWHP, but hope springs eternal. It already has a Bren tune and a slip on muffler and runs very streng now. The reason for not doing in in three steps is that my syno shop (Commonwealth Motorcycles) here in Louisville is so busy with Ducati & KTM builds from all over the eastern USA that I was lucky to get two dyno sessions much less three.
First dyno test yesterday. I hope to get the Power Commander and Akra pipe installed next week and go back to Commonwealth for tuning.
That 175 HP I was hoping for is probably just that, a hope, based on the 154 HP the bike has now. The dyno and tuner I am using will be a accurate picture of what is possible because of Chads ability and the accuracy of hius dyno. I know there is more there, just not how much.