i'd rock this BMW...
 

i got an 08 BMW brochure in the mail yesterday and found the HP2 sport interesting. the rest of the BMWs look like old fart's bikes. whaddya think?


(retails for $25,375)

that front fairing looks allot like a 03 or so Gixxer... but it's still :drool: dead fuck'n sexy... sounds awesome too... someone posted a video of it on here a short while back

they did?! wonder how i missed that.

it's here
http://twowheelfix.com/showthread.ph...highlight=Swap

thanks for postin' the vid. i really thought i was stayin' on top of things here. :) guess i missed that one.

that thing is pure sex... we got a ton of pics of it at Bike week. :drool:

it's cool... it was in a thread called BMW... so I can see how you'd miss it... :lol:

Plus it's actually pretty comfortable for a sport bike. If I could afford it, i'd have an HP2 sport and a K1200S.

I can think of several bikes that are better (to me anyway).
848, 1098, 1098s, RC8, RSV, and MV Agusta F4, maybe even a Bimota DB7

Did we ask for your opinion? :tt:










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Yes as a matter of fact she did in her first post. :screwy:

check again. :nee:

You're a dork.. :zowned:

I would think you'd scrape the engine head at one point.

Abuse of powers I see.

I love that bike. Gorgeous. I'd ride one in an instant. 25 large, though.

Granted there are several bikes i'd love to own if money was an option. However if you ever get the oppertunity, go test ride a BMW K1200S. By far that is the most fun motorcycle i've ever ridden. I had so much fun when I rode it last year at bikeweek, I had to do it again this year.

The bike has the comfort of a good sport touring bike, handles like a ZX-6R, and has 167 hp. Plus you add in the electronic adjustable suspension that you can change while riding and heated grips and you have a fun ass bike :rockwoot:

I'd be worried as fuck about scraping my engine though.

You'll be fine, Valentino.

It would fuck with my head too much.

You do. The cyllinder heads actually have sliders on them. There is a good write up about the HP2 in pretty much every motorcycle magazine this month.

They say that in most cases, the riders knee will scrape before the cyllinder head. However there are sliders just incase. BMW had 4 HP2's running in the Daytona 200. They kicked butt. The riders were taking corners even lower and faster then alot of the 600cc riders.

:bunny:

Got any tape of it? Hey, Marko. Go fuck yourself.

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What is the displacement on the HP2?

No tape. We have pics of the HP2 in Nee's bike week pics, but none of the race itself.

I actually just checked AMA's site to be sure and a BMW HP2 finished 5th and 6th in the race. So thats pretty impressive. I knew they were in the top 10, but I wasn't sure where. But 5th and 6th for a new bike is pretty damn good.

An 848 got third.. :lol:

You serious?

I've never been a big fan of BMW bikes but I do like that one. I wouldn't pay $25k for it though.

Yup. Larry Pegram on the new 848 finished 3rd. Actually he was 4th, but when Josh Hayes was DQ'd everyone else moved up 1 place.

I do agree there. For $25k, you could go buy any 600cc sportbike and do some serious track mods to it and have money left over for track days.

However a used one in a few years might be a good buy :whistle:

Hey I just looked up the specs on that bike, it's 1200 cc and only 130 hp... It down about 60 hp from the 1098R which has the same displacement. Even the smaller base 1098 has 30 more HP and is 10K cheaper.

True because if you could find a used one...most likely the owner would have taken good care of it.

That's how I bought my Z06 back in 2002 and how I'll probably buy my next one.:dthumb:

So go buy your Duc and leave us aspiring Bimmer geeks alone! :nee:



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The only Duc I've ridden was a 999...I do like the 1098R and would buy that one.:drool:

Germans...... The only thing they know how to make is cars... :nee:

The 1098 isn't the direct competition for the HP2. The 848 is basically the closest Duc competition. The HP2 is a boxer motor. Where the Duc is a V-twin. If you're going to compare it, check the specs on the 848 since thats what it runs against. Allthough they are both different style of motors.

That Bimmer is actually pretty nice looking the upper fairing reminds me of my bike.

The HP2 Sport bikes and riders finished 6th and 7th in the AMA Formula Extreme at Daytona despite having two-bikes gone down in the first lap. Not bad for an antiquated aircool engine, huh?

BMW uber alles:rockout:

BTW, does this look like an old man's bike?

http://www.supermoto-racing.de/model...w_megamoto.jpg

it's an exception. :whistle:

:whistle:

And you DO know that the flat twin is an aircooled engine?

it's available on the racing-underground.com torrent :wink:

Would concur. Other bikes have come and gone here but this thing remains. MCN gave it a rare five star rating. Has a top ten lap time around Nurburgring. It is one thoughtful, refined, and state-of-the-art bike. Can take it to the track/canyon, can also take it to the next time zone over... in comfort.

Juniper Pass Lunch Ride - Streaming Video

http://www.farson.com/k1200s/k1200slovelandnorth2.jpg

ok dude... the time has come... you need to start a thread with pics of all your bikes...

Perhaps it's my middle-ageness but the BMW styling does it for me. Their bikes don't blend in like many others do. The GS looks perfect for its adventure/dual sport ambitions. The HP2 Sport and K1200S bike above don't look like old fart bikes to me. The deep dish spinning rear wheel connected to the single sided swing arm is memorizing to observe, as if hanging in mid-air when under way.

They aren't everyone's cup of tea, but there's a real-worldness to them. Munich recognizes the vast majority of sporting rides never see a track (99% of sportbikes don't according to Cycle World), thus one finds their bikes having ABS, shaft drives, heated grips, power ports, gear indicators, sweet suspension, thoughtful ergos, accessory options galore, and performance levels where it is the rider not the bike. But would note this... kinda fun to have a BMW on the track passing the race replicas. Something about going fast on a "slow" bike.

Ahhhh. Perhaps should clarify what is in the barn versus used to be. Have a couple H-D's, Ducati's, BMW's. That's it. :)

BTW, that HP2 we exchanged posts on has been delayed big time. Perhaps to late summer. Quality control issues with the carbon fiber supplier. BMW doesn't want, correctly so, to have any compromises with the HP2 series.

i still like it, but this week im all hot and sweaty over the benelli tornado.
http://ore.to/~gekka/DSC07421.JPG

BTW ebbs i looove being remembered as "somebody" lolz

well either way... if you have pics... you need to start a thread... you have and have had some amazing bikes :dthumb:

Old Farts????