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Old 03-14-2008, 07:01 PM   #41
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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.
And you DO know that the flat twin is an aircooled engine?
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Old 03-14-2008, 08:05 PM   #42
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Old 03-14-2008, 11:18 PM   #43
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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
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.

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Old 03-14-2008, 11:27 PM   #44
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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.

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ok dude... the time has come... you need to start a thread with pics of all your bikes...
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Old 03-14-2008, 11:36 PM   #45
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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)
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.

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Old 03-14-2008, 11:48 PM   #46
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ok dude... the time has come... you need to start a thread with pics of all your bikes...
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.
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Old 03-14-2008, 11:52 PM   #47
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i still like it, but this week im all hot and sweaty over the benelli tornado.


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Old 03-14-2008, 11:56 PM   #48
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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.
well either way... if you have pics... you need to start a thread... you have and have had some amazing bikes
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Old 03-15-2008, 01:07 PM   #49
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Old Farts????
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