Zombie Master wrote:It's a lifestyle accouterment, nothing else.
True. I felt that way with the r80gs as with every new bike since then.
I have owned airheads for nearly 35 years. Since they aren't making em anymore it is normal to lust after the new stuff . Just like the buxom Starbucks barista width green hair, a nose ring and a tongue piercing that is flirtatiously flicked at me when I order a bland latte with a dollop of whip cream... Nice For a spin...but I got better waiting for me with a larger promise.
I always brake in corners and think how I am going to get home if I really mess up. When I get home, I wished that I hadn't used my brakes and should have ridden a bit further.
Ridercam wrote:
True. I felt that way with the r80gs as with every new bike since then.
I have to disagree with you. The R80GS was a purposeful utilitarian machine. A real BMW. The fact that the GS line of motorcycles has been BMW's best seller, and insured its survival is unimportant to me. The new "Scrambler" is just an attempt to copy machines like Triumph's scrambler, which also has no credible off road technology. Posers machine. IMO BMW has lost it way, and is just aping what it sees. The R nine T is a perfect example, where BMW produces their version of a Moto Guzzi's Grisso. BMW makes high performance in-line four cylinder sport bikes that copy Japanese bike to a T. IMO this is sad.
It's a lifestyle accoutrement (what non-Super Cub/bike-of-burden isn't?), but the tires look plausibly appropriate to my home-state's (Michigan's) deteriorating post-industrial infrastructure.
For me a "Scrambler" has to be able to be used as such and for me that means when your knobbies loose traction on the 35 degree yellow clay logging road you can pull in the clutch and flick the thing around in one go and ride back down. For me and YMMVthat means less mass, basically as light as possible . This one doesn't qualify, it's pretty but that's it.
Last edited by Sibbo on Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.
"You ain't gonna learn what you don't want to know"
The Grateful Dead
What BMW and some of the other Euro bikes still do much better is the parental controls. With multi level traction control, wheelie control, stoppie control and lean angle sensitive ABS, a ordinary hack like myself can ride a 1000SSR much faster and safer than an R1 in real world conditions.
Garnet wrote:What BMW and some of the other Euro bikes still do much better is the parental controls. With multi level traction control, wheelie control, stoppie control and lean angle sensitive ABS, a ordinary hack like myself can ride a 1000SSR much faster and safer than an R1 in real world conditions.
Incorrect. The new R1 surpasses the Euro bikes in transparency of parental controls. You will actually have "delusions of adequacy." In quotes, because of a comment I once made to a drummer.
I don't know if any R1's were racing...
BMW racers Peter Hickman, Martin Jessopp and Michael Rutter secure the ‘first ever’ clean sweep of the podium at the iconic road race for BMW Motorrad. The three privateer (not factory supported) British BMW racers have claimed the biggest road racing success so far for BMW Motorrad at the legendary Macau Grand Prix. The Macau Grand Prix at the challenging Guia Circuit on the streets of the former Portuguese colony and now a region of China, was held for the 49th time this year. A total of 30 riders competed in this extremely difficult race through the narrow streets of Macau, and among them were ten BMW riders. Four crossed the line in the top five! This year the BMW customer teams supported by the ex-WSBK experts from BMW seemed to be in a class of their own in Macau. IoM TT legend John McGuinness was 4th on a Honda.
