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Val
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PostPosted: 23:50 - 04 Nov 2014    Post subject: its raining bikes - the new BMW sport adventure Reply with quote
The best sport adventure bike so far?

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PostPosted: 00:17 - 05 Nov 2014    Post subject: Re: its raining bikes - the new BMW sport adventure Reply with quote
Val wrote:
The best sport adventure bike so far?

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PostPosted: 09:27 - 05 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just hope they don't make it for short arses, they can stay on their short arse sports bikes.
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PostPosted: 07:46 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Re: its raining bikes - the new BMW sport adventure Reply with quote
Val wrote:
The best sport adventure bike so far?

https://www.facebook.com/BMWMotorrad/photos/a.395102643466.175086.262447113466/10152763549663467/?type=1&theater

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PostPosted: 10:01 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Seat height: 840mm
Weight: 228 KG

I like the look, but I would need to ruin it with a good set of engine bars. It wouldn't be long before I dropped it.
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PostPosted: 10:31 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
esullivan wrote:
...ruin it with a good set of engine bars...

Use engine bars as mounts for the fog/driving lights that seem de rigueur for BMW (and I'm sure some other) bikes of a certain style.
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PostPosted: 19:23 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Re: its raining bikes - the new BMW sport adventure Reply with quote
Val wrote:
The best sport adventure bike so far?

https://www.facebook.com/BMWMotorrad/photos/a.395102643466.175086.262447113466/10152763549663467/?type=1&theater

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1509258_10152763549663467_2041835815007071550_n.jpg?oh=8387b2479c6cd8ee326ef5c5e16fad56&oe=54DC84ED&__gda__=1425484756_9092c4c55f1d833783aab9126f7987cf


Fking Ell!! that looks like it had a damm good thrashing with the Ugly Stick Sick
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PostPosted: 19:52 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Quite like it visually Embarassed looks like a beefy multistrada
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PostPosted: 19:57 - 06 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 21:25 - 10 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
looks like a tiger 1050 from 2007
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PostPosted: 21:55 - 10 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
map wrote:
esullivan wrote:
...ruin it with a good set of engine bars...

Use engine bars as mounts for the fog/driving lights that seem de rigueur for BMW (and I'm sure some other) bikes of a certain style.

They see me rollin', they hatin'.

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...but they see me rollin'.
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PostPosted: 22:05 - 10 Nov 2014    Post subject: Re: its raining bikes - the new BMW sport adventure Reply with quote
pepperami wrote:

Fking Ell!! that looks like it had a damm good thrashing with the Ugly Stick Sick


Surely it's just a competition now. Which manufacturer can make you projectile vomit the furthest.

Yamaha nearly stole that crown from BMW, but not a week has passed and they've come back strongly.

Some people have commented favourably on it's looks. Are you people blind!!!!
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PostPosted: 22:36 - 10 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
...but they see me rollin'.


Famous last words. Remember, half of em aren't even looking. Wink
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PostPosted: 14:23 - 28 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sport Adventure? What made up category is that?

The closest thing I can think of that fits the above would be the KTM 940/990. You can go on a cross continental adventure with them just as easily as you do a rally raid with them.
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PostPosted: 09:00 - 29 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
c-m wrote:
Sport Adventure? What made up category is that?

The closest thing I can think of that fits the above would be the KTM 940/990. You can go on a cross continental adventure with them just as easily as you do a rally raid with them.


It's a category for the slightly older gent who has a bad back but wants a sports bike. They also happen to have fuckloads of cash now the kids have left home and the mortgage is paid off. Hence many bikes are now targeted at them
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PostPosted: 18:38 - 30 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
So that is what BMW has done with all the left over bits.
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PostPosted: 19:14 - 30 Nov 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shit. I'm spoilt for choice now...
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Northern Monkey wrote:


It's a category for the slightly older gent who has a bad back but wants a sports bike. They also happen to have fuckloads of cash now the kids have left home and the mortgage is paid off. Hence many bikes are now targeted at them


This is my take on it too.

Although as a good all-rounder for the person with space for only one bike, I hate to say I see the appeal.
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PostPosted: 09:01 - 08 Jan 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
A sports bike has a screen with a shallow rake angle. An adventure bike compromises this, hence the buffeting. Pure marketing bullshit!
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