BMW K1200S
BMW launch lightweight superbike
BMW Motorrad have unveiled the K1200S, a concept bike designed to showcase their skills in building lightweight, agile, powerful bikes.
It's one of the most powerful bikes ever produced by BMW with the 4 cylinder 1157cc motor pumping out over 160bhp.
The K1200 S will be launched to the international press in July, in Germany. The bike will make its first public appearance at the INTERMOT show in Munich from 15-19 September, and the UK launch will be soon afterwards. The price of the new K1200 S has yet to be finalised.
For the latest information on the K1200 S, interested customers can visit a special website and register to receive further information. Current sports bike riders can also apply for selection to a special K1200 S test ride event that will take place at the Nürburgring in September!
Link : www.face-the-power.com
With 160hp and the fact that it is described as a lightweight, I think BMW are going straight for the jugular with the most fierce competition in market placement, with the likes of the Kawasaki ZX12R, Yamaha YZF-R1 and the Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa, all of which will need to be in the same price range, or they won't stand a chance.
This bike also looks typically suitable for those old bikers returning to the fold, and also the same ones which will cause are insurance rates to rise, as these new motorcycles are nothing to be compared with the bikes of yesteryear. It will automatically appeal to ex BMW riders who have nothing to date that is remotely capable of keeping up with Japs.
Bikers won't take it seriously unless it makes good on a racetrack, and BMW will still have a long way to go then, but I think its a good attempt at gaining entrance to the superbike market.
Bring it on BMW you have got your work cut out, and at least it resembles a motorcycle, which cannot be said for some of the previous styling exercises.
Priced to be competitive qith the likes of R1s etc.? I don't think so. This is a premium brand so will follow the trend of the rest of the range and be about £1000 more expensive.
Shows what BM can come up with once they get over their self-induced 100bhp limits, so obviously a design intent to allow easy Europe-wide conformity for their products. Does this allow a German citizen (or dealer) to import an unrestricted UK (for example) bike and run it there as full power or do they have to conform to Construction & Use/Type Approval/Whatever regulations and restrict it back down to 100bhp?
gRsf12 said:
Does this allow a German citizen (or dealer) to import an unrestricted UK (for example) bike and run it there as full power or do they have to conform to Construction & Use/Type Approval/Whatever regulations and restrict it back down to 100bhp?
Interesting question; either way its ludicrous that the same country that stifles output to a 100hp also has autobahns and the fastest roads in the world.
gRsf12 said:
its ludicrous that the same country that stifles output to a 100hp also has autobahns and the fastest roads in the world.
And all its own manufacturers electronically limit their cars to 155mph, don't forget. Though they don't limit their horsepower on cars.....
yes, but that is an agreement, and not legeslation
jvaughan said:
yes, but that is an agreement, and not legeslation
155mph might be an agreement, but 100bhp is legislation. Perhaps you need to reread the thread in a different frame of mind, as it was only pointing out how ironic it was that the same country has such opposite views/legislation on power/speed capabilities/potential for high speed.
I would also like to say that Germany as a whole is not the speeder's Utopia it is made out to be in the UK. In three months around Stuttgart I never once found an 'unlimited' stretch of autobahn, mostly just 120kmh limits, so little different to here. Maybe that's just a bad area?
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