BMW Rideout

[Shep]

On Sunday Ben and myself went across to the official opening of Bahnstormer our new BMW dealer at the top of the A34 by Alton. BMW has brought a truck of test bikes down, for rideouts. By 3 pm there was hardly anybody there. So we proceeded to test ride virtually the whole BMW range !!!! fantastic fun.

I rode

XMoto
XChallenge
XCountry
GS1200
GS1200 Adventure
R1200S
GS650

What a laugh that XMoto is, you can really go loopy on that. I must say that despite numerous BMW slaggings by Moi, the GS1200 is a bloody good bike. I would not say better than the Varadero but very good, i really liked it. So we had a good afternoon !!!!

[Sharribee]

How did you find the 650 Shep, I looked at the dakar one a little while ago but wasn't sure.

[paul_r]

How did you find the 650 Shep

Surely it was just there alongside the other bikes, not difficult to find, i doubt he even had to search for it

Is it time for me to get my coat??

[Sharribee]

[Maverick]

Very fuuuuuunnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyyyyy

[Shep]

Mabel

I rode the 650 Dakar Demo a while back and to be frank i was not very impressed, it all felt a bit remote, and on the example i rode a poor gearbox. It also fely noticeably "thumper".

The standard GS650 that i rode at the weekend was a really sweet little bike, i liked that a lot, very smooth for a single, handled well, and a nice ride. Felt like a nice friendly little bike if you know what i mean.

Anna is in the same situation as you Mabel. She either wants a Transalp or this little BMW. The BMW is slightly smallerand lighter but not a twin !!!

[Shep]

THAT LAST ONE WAS MY 500TH POST

Still a complete pathetic nancy boy virgin in relation to Daves and Chad but very slowly getting there

[Sharribee]

THanks SHep, because it's a thumper was the reason I didn't go for it at the time

[Chad]

that xmoto is a cool bike may be i'll have to blag a test ride on one


was there a HP2 there cos they are fookin bonkers

[Shep]

Chad

No HP2, which was a pity becuase i badly wanted a go on that.

The XMoto was a real laugh, barking, just bang it over, and keep it nailed. Only had 73miles on the clock, and i was hitting the rev limiter in nearly every gear !! i still feel guilty about that