The new BMW 1200GS Liquid Cooled

[y2blade]

Had a nice morning at North Oxford BMW, staff were well organized and had plenty of time to answer questions and queries :thumb2

Always a pleasure to deal with.

https://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b21/y2blade/010008_zpsda15951b.jpg

https://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b21/y2blade/010005_zps69f60c81.jpg

https://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b21/y2blade/010003_zpsce1dfd05.jpg

https://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b21/y2blade/010001_zps74469700.jpg

Great looking bike, BMW have done a super job.

[drzsta]

So bought one or just a dreamer?

[Polarbear]

Price?

And why has it still got cooling fins?
____________________
Triumph Trophy Launch Edition

[MarJay]

[yen_powell]

[hornetmike]

I really like the new engine is miles better and looking at the workshop instruction it all but services itself 25min service time,s
____________________
87 Honda CG 125 - 97 ER5 - SR 50 -81 Z250- 96 CBR 600 F- 94 GPX600R 88- GPX 400R- 87 GS 125 - 2006 Honda CB600F- 2003 ER5 - Honda CBF 1000 2009 - Honda CBR 600 RR 2011
Current BMW R1200GS 2010

[tatters]

Those radiators look awfully exposed if the bike was dropped.
____________________
Past:NRG50,AF1125(x2),NSR125RR,ZZR250,CX500,VFR400,KR1S,ZZR600(x2),CB400N,YZF1000(x2),KH125,Z200,FX400R,CBR954RR(x2)GPZ500S,GT550,VFR750F(x2),RD350N,XR650R,CBR600F,CB250,KDX250,YZF750R,CRM250,400EXC,KLR650,TTR600RE,DR350S,R100GSPD,RGV250,VMAX1200,DL650,KZ750 Present:G650XC,C12,CRF450X,1190ADV

[Cheeseybeaner]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I bet they're great to ride if you're clocking up good distance, but my god they are - to my eye - utterly hideous. It has no lines. No wait - it has so many that it's just a confused mess of trestle, trellis, tube, bar and strut. The most inelegant piece of machinery I've ever seen, certainly in a bike. In a word - carbuncular.
____________________
"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."

Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[.....]

[Polarbear]

[numpty2]

Always a personal opinion, but SO UGLY.

I love the look of old BMW boxers. I quite like the single they made (650cc?). But these look like they have come from the 1970s TV show Buck Rogers. It looks to me like a committee design, with everyone adding their own bits. It would have been far better to start again from a standard traditional layout.

[andys675]

new prickmobile, built by pricks, sold by pricks, for pricks
____________________
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

[c_dug]

https://motoprofi.com/imgs/a/a/j/b/j/bmw_k_1_1993_1_lgw.jpg

Proper bmw
____________________
I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock.

[Kradmelder]

[temeluchus]

They must be getting the thing through a new round of emissions standards. Otherwise cannot see why they bothered.
____________________
Some shite cruiser. Now with guns and FREEDOM!

[Kradmelder]

[c_dug]

I'd say after the honda cbf's the gs is probably the second most common of the newish big bikes around London so im not so sure how tiny a market share it can be.
____________________
I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock.

[Kradmelder]

[numpty2]

BMW are somewhat hampered by their famous boxer twin engine layout. Many enthusiasts only consider it a proper BMW if it is a boxer twin. But they are then forced to make so many fudges & compromises to design a modern performance machine, but retain this engine layout.

Harleys are the same. It will only sell as a V twin. And customers don't want to see a radiator so they have to hide the water cooling system and so on. Just so it looks old but performs new.

Having said that, there is no excuse for ugly.

[y2blade]

https://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b21/y2blade/010004_zps8c34ac43.jpg

[Polarbear]

[numpty2]

"I have decided that is so ugly it's got class"


I agree on the subject of that K1. Retinal damage on this scale deserves recognition & praise.

[yen_powell]

[c_dug]