oil consumption

[Mark Rivera <marr@xxxxxxxx>]

Is oil consumption to be expected? Picking up an R1100R this weekend in 
Nebraska and will be riding 1200 mi home to south Texas. Should I expect 
to need a spare quart handy? (The bike has around 32k mi.) I guess it 
would be prudent to have one anyway, but if I burn oil with a bike of 
that mileage is that a caution flag?

Also, re general oil stuff -- here's a report I found via Google:
http://www.ibmwr.org/otech/oilreport.html

I understand that search rankings in Google have to do with how many 
times a page is referenced in the 'net (among other things). That this 
page comes up in the top ten must say a bit about BMW riders and oil 
obsession. :>

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Mark

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