New S1000RR launch

[boxermania]

Well here it is....sounds good on paper....how will it fare in action?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12dGXRPJNks&feature=popt02us0b

[Mollygrubber]

Very well, according to a couple of tests I've read... seems like it will do well in competition. I'm looking forward to seeing what Troy Corser can do with it!

[MattPie]

Very well, according to a couple of tests I've read... seems like it will do well in competition. I'm looking forward to seeing what Troy Corser can do with it!

I'm confused, what has Corser (and Xaus) been riding this year in the World Superbike if not this?

I'm seriously lusting after this bike. I sat on the one at Bob's a few weeks ago and only some semblance of fiscal responsibility is keeping me from one.

[boxermania]

MattPie said

I'm seriously lusting after this bike. I sat on the one at Bob's a few weeks ago and only some semblance of fiscal responsibility is keeping me from one.

Why worry about fiscal responsibility when the goverment doesn't.....live life while you can as it will turn ugly one way or another.

[Mollygrubber]

Very well, according to a couple of tests I've read... seems like it will do well in competition. I'm looking forward to seeing what Troy Corser can do with it!

I'm confused, what has Corser (and Xaus) been riding this year in the World Superbike if not this?

I'm seriously lusting after this bike. I sat on the one at Bob's a few weeks ago and only some semblance of fiscal responsibility is keeping me from one.

Oops - I haven't been following World Superbike for a few years, and didn't realize they were well into 'testing' on this bike. I heard that BMW had signed Corser, but I guess it was an extension of the existing contract. I'll have to expand my race-watching from MotoGP this year... anybody going to Laguna Seca in 2010? My wife & I are doing that, and then riding to the BMWMOA rally in Oregon. Nicely planned this year, folks, perfect two week holiday!

[Ves]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cM9S2AzU28

[GypsyRR]

Cool video, but I wish they had shown more of the bike.
I sat on an S1000RR in Las Vegas last week. It fit me well and tempted me just as well. But so did the HP2 Sport.

[sweatmark]

The S100RR is the real deal. Full on knee puck grinding rip snorting trackday madness. Instant street cred for the Roundel-adorned. The locals are buzzing about the BMW's strongest dyno pull ever seen from a stock race rep... at the Ducati shop.

If I don't win the bike via BMWMOA raffle, then you'll find me standing in line to sell blood plasma for the new bike fund.

Bring on the mid-life crisis.

[Ves]

All the mags have had nothing but good to say about it.. and you know if Keith Code is using it for his classes it's got to be a sweet handling bike...

Now there's an idea... do an R1150R.net Keith Code Superbike School day. What better way to ride that beast than on the track. For a measly few hundred bucks...

[sweatmark]

Had a chance today to stop by my favorite BMW Motorrad dealer.
Witnessed the S1000RR in person.
Two bikes in the store.
Sat on the bike with Motorsport color scheme, of course.
Feels like a liter bike.
Looks like a liter bike.
Quality of construction superior to any of the competition - the delight is in the details.
And inside this most polished package of Superbike prowess: 193 Pferdestärke.

Seriously considering the Keith Code school at Laguna Seca.

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I'm in love... with my wife, who bought me a bunch of BMWMOA S1000RR raffle tickets!

[Mollygrubber]

I read on the BMWMOA website that a factory stock S1000RR (mirrors removed) beat the AMA Superbike lap record at a track whose name I have forgotten (damn those missing brain cells).

Now that's a helluva first effort! Good on ya' BMW! Just put a functional battery in the R1200R and we're getting somewhere!

Peter

[Dr. Strangelove]

Bring on the mid-life crisis.

Having survived "mid-life" (really don't know how far beyond 126 years old I will go); I offer this advice:

I have NEVER EVER met a "mid-life crisis" I didn't THOROUGHLY ENJOY.

That term was not invented by any male aging well through their middle years, but by those jealous that it is still possible to have fun at our age.

So, they try derision and scorn and try to appeal to our, actually their, sense of maturity (often boring and over-rated), to bring you in-line.

Don't fall into the self-loathing trap they lay for you! Remember the 2000 year old words that Horace penned when he was accused of the same.

Carpe Diem, dude. The days won't last forever.

John

[Mollygrubber]

Bring on the mid-life crisis.

Having survived "mid-life" (really don't know how far beyond 126 years old I will go); I offer this advice:

I have NEVER EVER met a "mid-life crisis" I didn't THOROUGHLY ENJOY.

That term was not invented by any male aging well through their middle years, but by those jealous that it is still possible to have fun at our age.

So, they try derision and scorn and try to appeal to our, actually their, sense of maturity (often boring and over-rated), to bring you in-line.

Don't fall into the self-loathing trap they lay for you! Remember the 2000 year old words that Horace penned when he was accused of the same.

Carpe Diem, dude. The days won't last forever.

John

I love you, man. Took the words right outa' my mouth.

I bet a lot of 'crisis' candidates just couldn't afford the fun toys until mid-life. I sure couldn't. Damn kids...

I don't feel a lot mentally different than I did when I was 20 (well, I care a lot less what other people think now, actually )

If only my knees/back/neck were still that flexible...

Peter

[Dr. Strangelove]

thanks for the support; we should MARCH.

A bunch of 40 and 50 and 60 somethings who can now afford the toys they always wanted and were told No, you can't.

Turns out, mirabili visu, Yes, You Can.

Sometimes in life you just trade one mommy for another and that is so unfair! It's time to take a stand and say YEAH and tell the world this so called "crisis" is no such thing. It's no Crisis at all.

Fun is what is rediscovered in "mid-life" and there are many who don't want you to have any more fun than they have.
Screw 'em and laugh at their simple answers to life's enjoyment. And think about this. The best toys are those that make you smile and feel like you're going fast and make some noise and you straddle.

They get away with telling US that we have two brains, one above our shoulders and one below the waist.

I say Two Brains Are Better Than One especially when that one is often battered by the winds of estrogen and progesterone storms or, picture this: you're Alan Alda and you're worrying about whether the sun or the rain hurts your Miata's convertible top more so should you park on the street or in a garage? Yeah, they're are "men" that worry about such things. I think I am going to explode!

I can say that that other brain often, yes often, has some really really good ideas and I have found it very worthwhile to listen to the whisper or the shout.

And I listen with the brain above the shoulders and together WE come to a decision,and then I kind of break it to my wife, but that's not important. And WE (my brains and I) have decided that We will Not feel any challenge or disgrace or embarrassment or need to explain why. The answer is the same as it was when you were 4 and you wanted to go down the slide head first, and you were told No. And when you were in high school and you wanted to drag race and they told you No, and when you were (OK, now You fill in the blanks...),
but you get to the point where you want to ride a fancy motorcycle and lean into turns and enjoy leaving everyone in the dust at stoplights and pulling into a gas station in the middle of nowhere, in your outfit, bugs and dust about, and you know why.

Because, it's fun.

And it's really cool, too.

[GypsyRR]

Are you high?

[Dr. Strangelove]

Are you high?

Do I need to be high to see the critics as the curmudgeons and curmudgeonnettes they are?

I think not

There is a lucidity that comes with age, a pellucidity, though which the BS of conventional wisdom, is easily not only sniffed, but also seen and heard.

And pushed out of the way into the scrap-heap of rejected value.

[Mollygrubber]

... let the man talk, he's on a roll!

[Dr. Strangelove]

ok, enough of the OT rant

and thank you, MG; At least there are TWO of us. Pretty soon it'll be a movement!