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[tunnie]

Only cost me £8 a month more to insure the new beemer bike 

Considering its twice the cc capacticy of my current bike and 4 times the value think thats a damn good deal! 

[Mr Skrunts]

Excellent deal  .  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.

[tunnie]

Excellent deal  .  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! 

[Tony H]

Excellent deal  .  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! 

Does it have somewhere to store your wuthers, like the mig?

[tunnie]

Excellent deal  .  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! 

Does it have somewhere to store your wuthers, like the mig?

Apart from the 3 panniers, no 

[KillerWatt]

Excellent deal  .  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.

[albitz]

Excellent deal  .  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! 

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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks.

[KillerWatt]

Excellent deal  .  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! 

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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks.

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.

[STMO999]

Excellent deal  .  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! 

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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks.

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?

[albitz]

Excellent deal  .  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! 

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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks.

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

[KillerWatt]

Excellent deal  .  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! 

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If you can prove your bike does that ,I will eat my old socks.

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.

[KillerWatt]

..........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

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).

[STMO999]

Thank you for explaining that KW, I genuinely thought they used bank robbers.

[albitz]

..........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

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.

[KillerWatt]

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.