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I was really thinking about a BMW. You never see a used one for sale.

Brian

There is a BMW dealership right down the road from the house and they have plenty of used ones.
But I have to tell you, thoses BMW people are crazy!

 

[iski]

Brian

There is a BMW dealership right down the road from the house and they have plenty of used ones.
But I have to tell you, thoses BMW people are crazy!

 

Quite a few BMW riders around here.  If there is a way to design and engineer an uglier, weirder looking bike, BMW ditches their current fugly model designs to default to the stranger ones.  And they are crazy.

[RJ749]

NOt sure about some of the crotch rockets I see some of the backseaters are so high the COG may be bad but when I was in German a few years back driving a 911 C4S, I played bumper tag with a Kawasaki with passenger between 100 mph and 140 mph, for about 30 minutes. 

Plenty of corners and she was glued to his spin over 100 mph, below that she was sitting up.

Last time I had my SEUC on a long run we ran over 80 a lot of the time and occasionally over 100, but I sure as hell didn't run over 110 and nearly 140 for extended times that the Kaw did.

After 140 though he was toast, but I wasn't...................

[hogasm]

When Kathy and I were in Sturgis this year a BMW came up behind us on 94. Thought it was a state man, we were running over 100. What went through my mind was, he will through me under the jail. After he  pulled up beside me I downshifted and before I could let the clutch out he was gone like a rocket. What made it worse was that I never heard him, even when he was ahead of me.

[hdhiwayman]

The best way I can think of to answer this one is. "When their on the same trailer" 

[nixobilly]

Roger,

What's it like to drive 170?  Do you sense the speed?

Mark

[VAZHOG]

Roger,

What's it like to drive 170?  Do you sense the speed?

Mark

From my Hot Rod Lincoln Daze , Telephone poles become a picket fence 

[RJ749]

Roger,
What's it like to drive 170?  Do you sense the speed?
Mark

I don't get a sense of the speed other than visually, as everything is coming at you so much faster.  You are actually driving with your vision field out about a mile or better.

The picture was taken near Rottenburg north of Stuttgart Germany on the Autobahn.  People are religious about moving to the right when no one is in front of them on the highway and it allows for your confidence when passing a slower vehicle as long as they are not overtaking another in the slow lane.

Still, I have seen some nasty accidents over there and the vehicles involved are often a quarter mile or so of the highway.  They also do a good job of not having things like trees etc. near the medians or shoulders of the Autobahns.  Now the country roads are a different story.

Anyway, fast is fun there, although just like here it is happening less and less with the population increases in the cities there.

[ccr]

In Europe we drove like that all the time.  With other drivers going that fast and sometimes only a couple of feet between vehicles.  It was a great deal of fun with the right cars.  I got cited as going 240 KM in a 120 KM zone going around Waterloo on my way into Brussels in a fairly new MR2.  It was red and red just goes fast anyway. I had slowed down a bit for the corner.  

I had to beg that my day in court be with a jury, English speaking.  That delayed the court day long enough that we PCSd back to the US before that date came up.  It was going to be an expensive day, for sure. But it was fun.  

[jfh]

I was really thinking about a BMW. You never see a used one for sale.

Here is a link for used bmws.  http://www.ibmwr.org/market/  A few years ago I purchased a K1200RS "Flying Brick" with 1500 miles on it for almost $5k below retail. I flew to DFW in the morning and was on the road back to VA by 1:00 in the afternoon.  Very nice bike that is capable of comfortable two-up triple digit riding all day long.  Nice machinces so long as you are not addicted to modifications.  Exhaust, Chip, K&N filter and you're done.  Nothing left to do but ride.

[AJAyre]

Sorry to dissapoint you guys

But i used to tour europe on a hayabusa with luggage and the wife on the back and she would sit quite happy 160mph on the autobahn for 30 minutes without even holding on...the problem is with the  true race replicas like the R1 or GSXR you can't take enough weight of your wrists at reasonable speed for it not to become agony after 60 miles or so and even if you can you've got no space to carry any luggage... Add to the fact that your average dianese race suit turns into a pressure cooker hell on a hot day in the south of france or italy and you soon realise that god truly did ride harley as always the   old story about the snail and the tortoise always comes into play