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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tunnie on 16 September 2009, 09:48:01
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Only cost me £8 a month more to insure the new beemer bike :y
Considering its twice the cc capacticy of my current bike and 4 times the value think thats a damn good deal! :)
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
I have already had comments of 'you bought an old mans bike'
Well possibliy, but look at the car i drive.
Sure the GS won't win races with the big sports, but i won't be too far behind, and in much more comfort, carrying all my own supplies.
0-60 in 3.2 sec still aint bad! :D
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
I have already had comments of 'you bought an old mans bike'
Well possibliy, but look at the car i drive.
Sure the GS won't win races with the big sports, but i won't be too far behind, and in much more comfort, carrying all my own supplies.
0-60 in 3.2 sec still aint bad! :D
Does it have somewhere to store your wuthers, like the mig? ::)
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
I have already had comments of 'you bought an old mans bike'
Well possibliy, but look at the car i drive.
Sure the GS won't win races with the big sports, but i won't be too far behind, and in much more comfort, carrying all my own supplies.
0-60 in 3.2 sec still aint bad! :D
Does it have somewhere to store your wuthers, like the mig? ::)
Apart from the 3 panniers, no ;D
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
At our sort of age, it doesn't seem to matter whether it's an R1 that's been tuned to the point where the engine will blow up the minute you start it - or whether it's a sewing machine that makes less horsepower than the starter motor from a Smart car.
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
I have already had comments of 'you bought an old mans bike'
Well possibliy, but look at the car i drive.
Sure the GS won't win races with the big sports, but i won't be too far behind, and in much more comfort, carrying all my own supplies.
0-60 in 3.2 sec still aint bad! :D
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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks. ;) :D ;D
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
I have already had comments of 'you bought an old mans bike'
Well possibliy, but look at the car i drive.
Sure the GS won't win races with the big sports, but i won't be too far behind, and in much more comfort, carrying all my own supplies.
0-60 in 3.2 sec still aint bad! :D
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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks. ;) :D ;D
I agree.
The latest 2009 model is quoted as doing it in 3.9....and you can guarantee that was done by someone who knows how to pull a quick getaway.
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
I have already had comments of 'you bought an old mans bike'
Well possibliy, but look at the car i drive.
Sure the GS won't win races with the big sports, but i won't be too far behind, and in much more comfort, carrying all my own supplies.
0-60 in 3.2 sec still aint bad! :D
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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks. ;) :D ;D
I agree.
The latest 2009 model is quoted as doing it in 3.9....and you can guarantee that was done by someone who knows how to pull a quick getaway.
A bank robber? ::)
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
I have already had comments of 'you bought an old mans bike'
Well possibliy, but look at the car i drive.
Sure the GS won't win races with the big sports, but i won't be too far behind, and in much more comfort, carrying all my own supplies.
0-60 in 3.2 sec still aint bad! :D
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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks. ;) :D ;D
I agree.
The latest 2009 model is quoted as doing it in 3.9....and you can guarantee that was done by someone who knows how to pull a quick getaway.
..........on a specially built lightened/tuned etc,bike.Afaik litre sports bike have a 0-60 time of around 3 seconds,even with TC.I cant see a bog standard Beemer (very heavy,not much power) doing it in 3.5 :y
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Excellent deal :y. I think the bonus there is that you havent gone the way of the younger generation and moved on to a big sports bike. Then it may well have been quite a lot more.
I have already had comments of 'you bought an old mans bike'
Well possibliy, but look at the car i drive.
Sure the GS won't win races with the big sports, but i won't be too far behind, and in much more comfort, carrying all my own supplies.
0-60 in 3.2 sec still aint bad! :D
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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks. ;) :D ;D
I agree.
The latest 2009 model is quoted as doing it in 3.9....and you can guarantee that was done by someone who knows how to pull a quick getaway.
A bank robber? ::)
That's one occupation that keeps you alert for sure, although pretty much a dead occupation since the very late eighties/early nineties when they started handing out double figures if you were caught (as well as the banks only holding a few thousand instead of the £100K you could easily get back in the old days).
What's more likely is that BMW (along with the rest) give the vehicle to someone who has had some sort of career in motorsport to test it for them.
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..........on a specially built lightened/tuned etc,bike.Afaik litre sports bike have a 0-60 time of around 3 seconds,even with TC.I cant see a bog standard Beemer (very heavy,not much power) doing it in 3.5 :y
3.9 is the official figure quoted by BMW for their 2009 model Albs (it's still WAY short of the 3.2 quoted earlier though).
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Thank you for explaining that KW, I genuinely thought they used bank robbers.
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..........on a specially built lightened/tuned etc,bike.Afaik litre sports bike have a 0-60 time of around 3 seconds,even with TC.I cant see a bog standard Beemer (very heavy,not much power) doing it in 3.5 :y
3.9 is the official figure quoted by BMW for their 2009 model Albs (it's still WAY short of the 3.2 quoted earlier though).
Car and bike manufacturers have always got up to tricks to produce their official figures.Ford used to be known as the worst offenders in the car world,I also remember something about the yamaha R6 when it was new,they claimed it revved to about 16,500 rpm until someone tested the accuracy of the rev counters and found they were running about 2,500 rpm fast at the top end.
What I,m saying is that I dont doubt that those are the figures,just doubt the accuracy of them. :y
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Thank you for explaining that KW, I genuinely thought they used bank robbers.
It has been known in the past, just the same as it is common knowledge that top class car alarm manufacturers employ (proper) car thieves to design & test their product.
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..........on a specially built lightened/tuned etc,bike.Afaik litre sports bike have a 0-60 time of around 3 seconds,even with TC.I cant see a bog standard Beemer (very heavy,not much power) doing it in 3.5 :y
3.9 is the official figure quoted by BMW for their 2009 model Albs (it's still WAY short of the 3.2 quoted earlier though).
http://www.r1200gs.info/misc/specs/
0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in 3.3 sec.
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..........on a specially built lightened/tuned etc,bike.Afaik litre sports bike have a 0-60 time of around 3 seconds,even with TC.I cant see a bog standard Beemer (very heavy,not much power) doing it in 3.5 :y
See it now?
http://www.r1200gs.info/misc/specs/
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Like Albs said Tunnie, the manufacturers will pull every string, and stretch every bit of truth possible (without detracting so far as to get done under Trades Descriptions) in order to "sex up" the performance figures.
The link I saw for the 09 model stated 3.9s (which to be honest, is optimistic).
Claiming it will do 0-62 in 3.3 goes way beyond optimistic IMO.
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Like Albs said Tunnie, the manufacturers will pull every string, and stretch every bit of truth possible (without detracting so far as to get done under Trades Descriptions) in order to "sex up" the performance figures.
The link I saw for the 09 model stated 3.9s (which to be honest, is optimistic).
Claiming it will do 0-62 in 3.3 goes way beyond optimistic IMO.
I doubt i could keep the front wheel down to achive those times anyway, its still a quick bike for its size.
For me its the torque, any gear, low revs, just twist-go. Perfect for overtakes with ease, without having to spank the ass off it
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Apart from the obvious, can't really see the point in this. Surely, if it's the 0-60 you're interested in, you'd buy a sports bike. Likewise, if you want a car that does 0-60 in 6 secs, why buy an omega?
Unless you've got a lot of money to spend, you take one or the other.
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Keeping the front wheel down under extreme conditions isn't as hard as you think Tunnie.
Like you say, bags of torque and very usable under just about all conditions.
However, the specs as they read (torque, power, & weight) wouldn't have me believing for one minute the bike will meet those claims in anything other than a laboratory setup.
Very nice ride, but (as Albs said) it ain't matching a Blackbird on the 0-60 times no matter what.
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Apart from the obvious, can't really see the point in this. Surely, if it's the 0-60 you're interested in, you'd buy a sports bike. Likewise, if you want a car that does 0-60 in 6 secs, why buy an omega?
Unless you've got a lot of money to spend, you take one or the other.
Apart from all, I dont think women around you, are interested in 0-60 timings .. They would prefer something they can travel comfortably ;)
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Apart from the obvious, can't really see the point in this. Surely, if it's the 0-60 you're interested in, you'd buy a sports bike. Likewise, if you want a car that does 0-60 in 6 secs, why buy an omega?
Unless you've got a lot of money to spend, you take one or the other.
Apart from all, I dont think women around you, are interested in 0-60 timings .. They would prefer something they can travel comfortably ;)
What women around here? ::) Only women around here are sodding chavs
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..........on a specially built lightened/tuned etc,bike.Afaik litre sports bike have a 0-60 time of around 3 seconds,even with TC.I cant see a bog standard Beemer (very heavy,not much power) doing it in 3.5 :y
See it now?
http://www.r1200gs.info/misc/specs/
Yes Tunnie I see it,but I dont believe it.
Keeping the front wheel down - lean over the front of the bike - seemples. ;)
Lots of effortless torque,overtaking without having to keep stamping down through the box etc. Any 1000 V-twin from Aprillia or Ducati will do it so much better and probably do a gebuine 0-60 in 3 secs. :y
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Apart from the obvious, can't really see the point in this. Surely, if it's the 0-60 you're interested in, you'd buy a sports bike. Likewise, if you want a car that does 0-60 in 6 secs, why buy an omega?
Unless you've got a lot of money to spend, you take one or the other.
Apart from all, I dont think women around you, are interested in 0-60 timings .. They would prefer something they can travel comfortably ;)
What women around here? ::) Only women around here are sodding chavs
;D ;D
Agreed, but also means you are spending the time in a wrong place ;D :y
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..........on a specially built lightened/tuned etc,bike.Afaik litre sports bike have a 0-60 time of around 3 seconds,even with TC.I cant see a bog standard Beemer (very heavy,not much power) doing it in 3.5 :y
See it now?
http://www.r1200gs.info/misc/specs/
Yes Tunnie I see it,but I dont believe it.
Keeping the front wheel down - lean over the front of the bike - seemples. ;)
Lots of effortless torque,overtaking without having to keep stamping down through the box etc. Any 1000 V-twin from Aprillia or Ducati will do it so much better and probably do a gebuine 0-60 in 3 secs. :y
None of the Aprilia's do it for me, and i cannot stand the sound of Ducati's, i think they sound shite! Those really annoying dry clutches which make that horrid noise at idle.
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The sound of a thouroughbred.music to my ears. ;) ;D..........just goes to show were all different I suppose.
Put a pair of race Termignoni pipes on a Ducati and believe me you will never hear the clutch rattle. :y
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i was following one on my bicycle once through London, its not just idle at lights, it was when the revs dropped and just coasting, so much rattling.
I guess they are different machines when going full beans, but i wanted something for Long Haul, i really like the idea of taking off to the Alps on my own. 8-)
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anything that will do 0-60 in under 5 seconds is fast enough to have the shit fleeing from me.
so to me it dont really mater if its 3.5 or 4.0 seconds its still damn quick
Doug
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........But when its light as a feather and has a short wheelbase so its trying to do backflips instead of 0 - 60,its more exciting. :y ;D ;D
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........But when its light as a feather and has a short wheelbase so its trying to do backflips instead of 0 - 60,its more exciting. :y ;D ;D
What's really exciting is when you hit the N²O button and you then realise (at the point of no return) that the controller has got itself stuck and laid on all 50 horses at once, instead of bringing it on over the preset time :D :D
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..........on a specially built lightened/tuned etc,bike.Afaik litre sports bike have a 0-60 time of around 3 seconds,even with TC.I cant see a bog standard Beemer (very heavy,not much power) doing it in 3.5 :y
See it now?
http://www.r1200gs.info/misc/specs/
Yes Tunnie I see it,but I dont believe it.
Keeping the front wheel down - lean over the front of the bike - seemples. ;)
Lots of effortless torque,overtaking without having to keep stamping down through the box etc. Any 1000 V-twin from Aprillia or Ducati will do it so much better and probably do a gebuine 0-60 in 3 secs. :y
None of the Aprilia's do it for me, and i cannot stand the sound of Ducati's, i think they sound shite! Those really annoying dry clutches which make that horrid noise at idle.
Yep :y Lovely sound on the move, but sound like a set of spanners in a tumble drier at idle.