i'd rock this BMW...

[Rider]

Originally Posted by neebelung

Did we ask for your opinion?

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

[neebelung]

Originally Posted by Rider

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

check again.

[DLIT]

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

[NeonspeedRT]

Originally Posted by DLIT

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

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.

[NeonspeedRT]

Originally Posted by Rider

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

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

[sfarson]

Originally Posted by NeonspeedRT

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.

Juniper Pass Lunch Ride - Streaming Video

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by sfarson

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

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

[sfarson]

Originally Posted by itgirl25

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.

[sfarson]

Originally Posted by Ebbs15

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.

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by sfarson

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