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"Our Bikes BMW HP2 Sport"

Postby slparry » Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:22 pm

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2015 ... hp2-sport/


"The R1200S was BMW’s decent next-stab at fast and sexy but it was too long and ponderous to cut it as a proper sportsbike, and arguably a backwards step from the R1100S" ......

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Re: "Our Bikes BMW HP2 Sport"

Postby Blackal » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:30 pm

slparry wrote:http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2015/january/our-bikes-bmw-hp2-sport/


"The R1200S was BMW’s decent next-stab at fast and sexy but it was too long and ponderous to cut it as a proper sportsbike, and arguably a backwards step from the R1100S" ......

OUCH ;)


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Postby dave the german » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:13 pm

talking out his ar$e. Nowt wrong with the R1200S - they even made a replica :wink:
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Postby Boxermed69 » Thu Nov 26, 2015 1:38 am

dave the german wrote:talking out his ar$e. Nowt wrong with the R1200S - they even made a replica :wink:


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Postby exoticices » Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:45 am

I think journalists, and a lot of sheep-like buying public, have developed a knack of confusing 'sports'bike and 'race'bike.

The R12S was a great sportsbike but "too long and ponderous" to make a race bike.
(Without spending a fortune and competing in an olde worlde air cooled class!)

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They have a point on it maybe being a backwards step from the 1100S though...
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Postby andy griff » Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:57 am

Outrageous :shock:
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Postby exoticices » Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:03 am

Just read the article... It's actually quite well written, and there's an obvious love of the boxer twin concept. But Tim Thompson is one of those journos who seems to have more brain than testosterone. I liked him when he was 'Classic Bike' editor.
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Postby The Teutonic Tangerine » Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:20 am

"Sandbar" gets a mention as well.
There would appear to be a surfeit of prolixity and sesquipedalian content today please do not use a big word when a singularly un-loquacious and diminutive linguistic expression will satisfactorily accomplish the contemporary necessity
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Postby das bike u1100s » Thu Nov 26, 2015 5:16 pm

Just goes to show when you have the best (RWB BCR)
The next best only comes as a poor imitation, you can only "fine tune a classic so far" :oops:
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Postby boxerscott » Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:32 pm

exoticices wrote:Just read the article... It's actually quite well written, and there's an obvious love of the boxer twin
Ha! that is putting it very politely, Romantic Tosh! written in the wrong publication surely Mills and Boon stuff :?
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Postby er-minio » Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:39 pm

The Teutonic Tangerine wrote:"Sandbar" gets a mention as well.


Every HP2 owner will end up talking to Nigel at some point :)

As a former Boxercup owner, this made me laugh. A lot.
Like the R1150GS it looked a little too like Patrick Moore for most tastes, putting off at least another 19 per cent of potential buyers.

Which left one per cent: retired policemen and me.


It's a nicely written article.
Also, respect to him for travelling with the HP.
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