BMW sports missle...

[Guest]

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3605/bmw20k1000rs205yd4.jpg

[Voodoo]

Is that really a BMW?

[mel64]

Yes please...

[techno]

Yes or no what??

[Guest]

Is that really a BMW?

 

Acccording to Junes Fast Bikes it is

[Guest]

[Voodoo]

Is that really a BMW?

 

Acccording to Junes Fast Bikes it is

 

Bout time they made a decent looking bike

[techno]

Is that really a BMW?

 

Acccording to Junes Fast Bikes it is

 

Bout time they made a decent looking bike

 

Or another jap looking bike!

[Pacemaker]

I've only seen talk of it being a race bike upto yet, not seen or heard any gossip of a road version

[Guest]

Well the tourers seem to be ok, so why not Sports..........who knows maybe, just maybe ........

The Japs are starting to loose the Sports bike market....albeit very slowly

[Pacemaker]

The Japs are starting to loose the Sports bike market....albeit very slowly

 

I'm not surprised, the build quality on some of these new bikes nower days is shocking.

[PMC]

There is an article about it in BIKE magazine. Apparently they have to sell it in order to compete in WSB.

Most of the european superbikes a fair bit more expensive than the japanese ones. The BMW HP2 is like 5K more - but this one, which won't have BMW's odd styling or crazy suspension tech will be direct competition in the same price bracket. Coming 2009.

[Guest]

Maybe the Japs have got complacent thinking it was their market......After all Ducati does rather well on the Race front theses days maybe they just need to make the prices more competitive.

I'd ride a Duke in Black 8)

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8734/2007ducati1098ssuperbikpe0.jpg

Edited May 16, 2008 by Anonymous

[techno]

with an extra 200cc's am not surprised drew!

[Ade]

There's one surefire way to tell if it's a beemer. If it only comes with 12" wheels, matt paint and the frame as standard, with everything else on an options list.......

[DutchMick]

Whats a missle?

[jpow112]

Thats my next bike that is....

[Stu]

i heard it was to enter into the moto GP

soon see

ps drew what is a missle ?

[Pacemaker]

It's how the americans say it so it makes it sound better.

[PMC]

@stu_m

I have to admit I know very little about the racing, but here is the quote from BIKE:

 

The S1000RR will contend the 2009 World Superbike series in full, run by BMW in conjunction with German race outfit Alpha-Technik. Why WSB and not MotoGP? Von Kuenheim: 'Here, unlike MotoGP, riders are able to watch motocycles in direct competition with competitors. And while racing is never cheap, Superbike is more affordable the MotoGP. You need $40 million for success in MotoGP. In WSB you need a quarter of that budget."

 

So basically they're a bit tight And the cynical would say they are only bothering as a promotional tool.

[Stu]

it was some time ago when i read it in a bike mag

bloody tight gits arent they

[Korben]

Wow, not what I was expecting!!

Looks like they are pushing themselves into this market.

[harrycpr]

NO BECAUSE BMW CANNOT THINK OF THEIR OWN STYLING...............BLATANT RIP OFF OF A YAMAHA....THAT IS SO SIMILAR TO THE R6 OR R1.......

[Guest]

but nicer...

[queen bodecia]

It looks yummy. But I don't smell of wee just yet...