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GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MOTORCYCLE => Topic started by: 2005B12S on March 18, 2006, 10:44:25 AM

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: 2005B12S on March 18, 2006, 10:44:25 AM

(http://www.rubbermag.com/news/0511/imgs/051117_bmw1200_a.jpg)


This could be a BMW I could live with. The 2006 R1200S. Claimed 122hp at 430lbs. Probably in the 15k range.

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: snofrog on March 18, 2006, 11:19:35 AM

that certainly is a sweet bike but the cost of addmission is a little high for me by about 10,000 dolla .still a sweet bike though.M

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: WEINERDOGBONE on March 18, 2006, 12:10:05 PM

That is a sweet ride. I'd look for it in black. :beers:

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: ATC'er on March 18, 2006, 01:27:33 PM

Dry weight of 419 lbs and 83 lb-ft of torque.  Nice!

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: smooth operator on March 19, 2006, 07:29:58 AM

I like it ,maybe if I win the power ball I'll buy one. Untill then it out of my reach.  Dan

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: zeebandit on March 19, 2006, 07:56:09 AM

Yeah I really like it, but than again it's the money thing. :crybaby:

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Post by: mike on March 19, 2006, 08:26:48 AM

Look MA !  A new DucBeemer ! :D
Bemmer was da Mamma and then this guy showed up a claimed he was the daddy, so new little Ducbeemer wouldn't grow up without a pappa...  And everything was just womderfulll !   Except when daddy got drunk and they had  a fight -and daddy went back home to Italy. So Mama took little Beemer to the her parents place in Germany.  Where evryone liked little ducbeemer and he became a star.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v492/B12MHudson/DUCATI-996.jpg)

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: Red01 on March 19, 2006, 10:14:49 AM

I think they're both nice looking bikes, but neither the Beemer nor the Duc look like they'd be all-day comfortable for me, and that's the top priority a bike has to meet for me.

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: aussiebandit on March 20, 2006, 12:54:34 AM

I don't know, I still think of BMW's as OLD MAN bikes.  Mind you the new K1200 now has the right engine format.....

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: ATC'er on March 20, 2006, 09:20:52 AM

A lot of the younger guys here where I live think the Bandit is an old man's bike!  I wanted the K1200 before I bought my Bandit, but couldn't see spending that kind of money on a motorcycle.

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: Swamp Rat on March 20, 2006, 11:29:47 AM

It doesn't make sense to me....people will darn near morgage their house to own an expensive not so good motorcycle[american made product]. Then they won't look twice at an expensive well made bike such as the BMW. Goes to show ya just how much a good ad campaign is truly worth.

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: Desolation Angel on March 20, 2006, 01:01:41 PM

I got to drive a oil-head for the first time a month or so ago.  An '01.  Slower than Xmas!  Slow to rev up.  Slow to accelerate.  Too much vibration.  And I like Beemers, but I guess my K-bike experience spoiled the 2-bangers for me.  I'd say think K-bike if you want a Beemer.

Oh, and yeah, they are often thought of as old man bikes.  That's what my relatives in Austria call them.  They're meaning the traditional opposed twins, though.

Got some nice parallel vertical 800s coming, though.  Those might be able to move.  Rotax engines.

I know the opposed twins have been repeatedly tweaked over the years, but really, they are almost as old a design as a certain competitor's V-Twin, aren't they?  Or older?  And if a Bandit is an old man's bike, please keep 'em coming!

Title: Anyone like this?
Post by: billybandit on March 23, 2006, 07:23:41 AM

It's a bit too BMW for my liking. Original looking, but a bit OAP

Nice colour though