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BMW pulled the covers off a new R1200R featuring the liquid-cooled boxer engine first introduced on the R1200GS and also equipped on the R1200RT and the newly revealedR1200RS...
Read more about the Intermot 2014: 2015 BMW R1200R Gets Liquid-Cooled Boxer Engine at Motorcycle.com.
Looks like a Yamaha MT09 with a piston hanging out each side.
Didn't Ducati or Aprilla do that design already? What happened to bi ground headlights? Looks like wax prototype melted the So Cal heat.
What's more useless that grab handles positioned behind the passenger?
Oh my, doesn't it just look muscular?
You're right it's a sort of Aprilia Shiver, MT09, Ducati Streetfighter homogenous fusion, aka boring and done before!
Shades of the RnineT
It follows contemporary styling trends, integrating well the Boxer engine, and is far more contemporary than the current model. Nothing wrong with rab handles behind the rider from my experience - where else do you put them (and far better than hanging onto the rider).
The gentleman's naked bike.
I aint goin to ride naked, too flipping cold to start with[lol], I agree they seem to be following a trend, I thought BMW would have come out with something a bit more original, for they have brought out quirky bikes before and others have seemed to follow of sorts
What ever happened to the grab strap between the rider and the passenger, flat seats and styling licks that weren't on the foreskin of fashion?
Most of you must not have been passengers on a modern motorbike. It's a very uncomfortable experience.
If the stylists were made to use the products they design, there would be change in the status quo.
I have been a pissenger [refer to Nota's foreskin], I found it to be a very intimate experience especially when breaking, and uncomfortable when accelerating due to two legs complete with attached feet flying skywards whist the body was in backward motion[ahh].