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MOTOBRICK.COM => The MBdotCOM Community Center => Topic started by: beemrdon on July 22, 2016, 09:16:24 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQ6Gdk-QYw
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Makes me want a new bike.
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I like having an older 95 K75 and a "used to be newer," 02 R1150RT.
The contrast between an older and newer bike adds variety to my riding. It's very satisfying to ride each bike on a medium length ride on the same day.
I definitely throw the k75 around a lot more than the 1150, especially when commuting- bad habit.
Also, riding vintage Japanese dirt bikes helps keep my rode bike riding skills in tune.
When the rear tire slides out on wet pavement at 85mph :yow ,(true story on the 1150), it doesn't bother me as much.
To me, the beemer rode bikes have no equal, the K75 the best.
:mm
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Makes me want a new bike.
Just the opposite for me. All that tupperware and assemblies just look like a pain to work on.
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Just the opposite for me. All that tupperware and assemblies just look like a pain to work on.
Same here.
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Fascinating video.Now I remember why I stopped buying them in the eighties.And:
Electric bikes are just round the corner.
Incredible compounded reliability.You'd never work on them until you had to,then you'd be swimming around in the dark,swapping it out for a new one.
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Makes me want a new bike.
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Especially if they would make an 800cc sport-touring triple using half a K1600 motor.
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Fascinating video.Now I remember why I stopped buying them in the eighties.And:
Electric bikes are just round the corner.
Incredible compounded reliability.You'd never work on them until you had to,then you'd be swimming around in the dark,swapping it out for a new one.
I'd like to see how just around the corner they are -- if anyone has any links to examples of current electric motorcycle technology or electric bikes on the market, I'd sure like to see them.
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Especially if they would make an 800cc sport-touring triple using half a K1600 motor.
Now That is a great idea that I hope filters its way up to BMW HQ !
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I'd like to see how just around the corner they are -- if anyone has any links to examples of current electric motorcycle technology or electric bikes on the market, I'd sure like to see them.
There's the Zero. (http://www.zeromotorcycles.com)
Then there's this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfVEbu2iIlM
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Especially if they would make an 800cc sport-touring triple using half a K1600 motor.
I just sat on the Triumph 800cc triple at a dealer yesterday - but it was the adventure (XC) not the road (XR) model. I didn't go for a test ride, because I liked it too much and it was not a good day to spend $15,000. It looks like a great motorcycle.
Maybe BMW could take half K1600 motor, and tip it on it's side so the crank is basically inline with the driveshaft... and presto-chango - you've got yourself a modern K75.
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What's attractive to me on the new bikes is the exacting tolerances during manufacturing.
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Yeah all that precision machinery, robotics and CMM checks, but we still can't get the front and rear wheels aligned on the same centerline so it tracks straight... :bmwsmile
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What's attractive to me on the new bikes is the exacting tolerances during manufacturing.
Reducing variability is the aim.Quality is the name.
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I have a M/C goal. Within 2 years I'm going to afford and buy an R1200 GS factory low. Low by GS height standards, that is. :bmwsmile