Used BMW S1000RR

[infernobuster]

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your right, but you can upgrade to the competition package which includes rearsets, levers, belly pan, and some carbon trim bits for $27k out the door.

Just saw one of these at Calabogie get cracked up. It was a guys street ride, who decided to do a track day on it.

 

[CafeRay]

Just saw one of these at Calabogie get cracked up. It was a guys street ride, who decided to do a track day on it.

Here's Marcel Irnie finding out BMW ABS is not all it's cracked up to be...

[video=youtube;bp6_LerBxxU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6_LerBxxU&list=TLMkx608FJjao[/video]

 

[Mina]

Just saw one of these at Calabogie get cracked up. It was a guys street ride, who decided to do a track day on it.

I would literally cry myself to sleep.

 

[-Maverick-]

The HP4 may turn out to be a huge mistake for BMW. Cannibalizing your own sales is not good business sense.

 

[daisoman]

German manufacturers are insane with their options prices.

Rearset, bellypan, carbon bits = $6000? you can buy new bikes for that.

Cars are worse. A fold down rear seat was an option for my car @ $1000 too

 

[vrus]

There was a silver '09 or '10 with 20xxx kms on the clock asking for $9500 about a week or so ago. I reaallllly thought about it .

 

[vrus]

Just saw one of these at Calabogie get cracked up. It was a guys street ride, who decided to do a track day on it.

and how do you bin a hp4? Those bikes are practically designed to by itself! Did he turn all those assists off? And bogie's pavement is amazing..

 

[Eric Homes]

The HP4 may turn out to be a huge mistake for BMW. Cannibalizing your own sales is not good business sense.

I thought the HP4 were limited production bikes and all sold out before its release for 2013. You need to know someone at the dealer to reserve one.

 

[Roomie]

No way. Not many people think the BMW looks good. Plain old from the side and back and those mis matched headlights are ugly...BMW looks like an endurance honda from the 80's

I've never been one to care what the general population thinks. It's different and personally I really like it. I love your duc and mv. The ape would be the last in the looks dept for me.
This sir is hawt

 

[breyton]

$13k-$14k. GP Bikes sold my 2010 Motorsports colour with 29,600kms for $12k back in June. And it was cursed.

 

[vrus]

$13k-$14k. GP Bikes sold my 2010 Motorsports colour with 29,600kms for $12k back in June. And it was cursed.

ecu issues?

 

[breyton]

Major ecu issues. Every year without fail. It ran like **** and even stranded me in Bristol VA on the way home from the Dragon.

 

[Mina]

Major ecu issues. Every year without fail. It ran like **** and even stranded me in Bristol VA on the way home from the Dragon.

I was actually eyeing that one... Glad I didn't bite the bullet!

 

[CafeRay]

Major ecu issues. Every year without fail. It ran like **** and even stranded me in Bristol VA on the way home from the Dragon.

If you watch the Marcel Irnie racing video, after his ABS failure, he had multiple issues tied to complex electronics no one understood.

 

[vrus]

Don't take my word for it, but I believe Matt McBride was having the same issues as well..

 

[-D-]

It still boggles my mind why people are buying these bikes with all of these electronics for the street.
I am really surprised the cableless throttles did not run amok in a big way.

Street bikes are exposed to harsher environments therefore more prone to failure.

ABS- don't really need, just slow the hell down when it's raining. I can concede to this on touring type bikes.
Traction control- learn to use the throttle properly. Do you really need this for the street?

 

[breyton]

Because it's great fun when they work! The traction control is useful with 193 HP on a 450 lb bike.

 

[murf]

It still boggles my mind why people are buying these bikes with all of these electronics for the street.
I am really surprised the cableless throttles did not run amok in a big way.

Street bikes are exposed to harsher environments therefore more prone to failure.

ABS- don't really need, just slow the hell down when it's raining. I can concede to this on touring type bikes.
Traction control- learn to use the throttle properly. Do you really need this for the street?

You sound like the same people against abs and tc when they first came out in cars. Look
What happened with that.
Many people just dont like change.

 

[-D-]

You sound like the same people against abs and tc when they first came out in cars. Look
What happened with that.
Many people just dont like change.

You are wrong Murf.
A car has 4 wheels and a cage around.
A car's components are more sealed vs. a bike.

A bike's braking system is a very simple and effective system WITHOUT electronics.
It just takes that 1 time for the electronics to screw up and you are hurt or dead.

btw- drivers have gotten worse because they rely on those devices to drive the car therefore they go faster in bad weather etc...
Hell you don't even have to look at the road because while you are texting the car will stop itself if you get too close to another car in front of you.

Yet we complain about bad drivers.

 

[soto]

I think ABS is more useful on a bike than a car. It's easier to recover from a skid in a car (especially fwd) but on a bike sometimes you're down before you realize what happened.

I'd like to have ABS on my vehicles but I also want to be able to switch it off.

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