Motorcycle Question for Tim

Giles · Post by **Giles** » Mon 09 Aug, 2004 16:13

Tim - what is you view of the new BMW sports bike that's shortly to be released - I think this is it...

My brother has a deposit on one and is very excited and highly unusually for MCN they are raving about BMW's new offering!

Any views?

garyw · Post by **garyw** » Mon 09 Aug, 2004 21:43

Giles wrote:My brother has a deposit on one

Yeah right, the same one who has the other same deposits

, are we sure its not just a "Friend I know"

Maybe a surprise for Larri now you have the dream motor

Zmeagol · Post by **Zmeagol** » Mon 09 Aug, 2004 22:41

One review I read didn't get into any detail, as it spent all the space complaining about fairly basic things. The upshot was that BMW has no previous experience in the superfast bike game and should stick to what it can do well.

Tim

TonyCal · Post by **TonyCal** » Tue 10 Aug, 2004 05:18

Shame I dont know bikes. Saw several of these beasts at the Nurbergring, they were there for the launch of the bike. BMW Mottorad had taken over the Dorint Hotel at the Grand Prix track for several weeks.

From what I did notice BMW have gone away from their normal engine and gone a bit more conventional.

Zmeagol · Post by **Zmeagol** » Tue 10 Aug, 2004 06:54

Although BMW has about 20 different models, they are based on just three engines. A leading 'R' indicates it's the traditional BMW horizontally-opposed air cooled twin. A leading 'K' in the model code indicates it's an inline water-cooled four cylinder (these are the fastest). The other engine is the 'F' which is an air-cooled single cylinder.

The numbers indicate the capacity, which tends to be 850 or 1150/1200 for the 'R' series, 1200 for the 'K' and 650 for the 'F' series.

The suffix determines the style of the bike (and sometimes the tune of the engine), with 'R' for naked roadster, 'S' for sports, 'RS' for sports tourer, 'RT' for tourer, 'GT' for fast tourer, 'LT' for luxury tourer, 'C' for cruiser, 'CL' for cruiser tourer and 'GS' for enduro.

So the K1200S is an inline four, 1200cc, sports style/tune. The UK launch is towards the end of September.

Tim

Giles · Post by **Giles** » Tue 10 Aug, 2004 08:25

garyw wrote:
Giles wrote:My brother has a deposit on one
Maybe a surprise for Larri now you have the dream motor

No honestly this is 100% true

As an aside, Larri absolutely hates BMW bikes with a vengeance

A VFR is her dream machine!

Giles · Post by **Giles** » Tue 10 Aug, 2004 08:38

Zmeagol wrote: The upshot was that BMW has no previous experience in the superfast bike game and should stick to what it can do well.

Tim

Interesting, from what I recall the MCN review was very praiseworthy says that at last BMW had entered the Sports bike arena with a worthy machine!

Re 'sticking to what it does best' - same could be argued (and has on here) about BMW's crusade into new market areas off-roaders, 1 Series etc etc. Looks like they really do have domination of all markets on their agenda

garyw · Post by **garyw** » Tue 10 Aug, 2004 09:29

Zmeagol wrote:should stick to what it can do well.

Very true but I was always told, that standing still in business is the same as going backwards.

These companies are there to make money, if they don't then shareholders demand more and the company ceases.
As I am sure you can guess with the Porsche as a company many have said the same about the KN but the company see's an opening to make money and thats what they do. They Have to

History, heritage....thats what Warwick castle is there for

and they make quite a bit of money doing that

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