I know next weekend is the official unveiling but I wonder if someone had the chance to throw a leg over the 1250 yet and got to try one as the changes might be bigger as the pictures and first articles suggest...I'm very surprised that no real tests with hard data compared to the older 1200 have been out in the press about the worlds new most important big bike !
- 143 NM TORQUE is HUGE but how about the top-end of only 136 hp...can you feel it on the last 2000rpm as I expected 20 hp more or at least 145 hp out of 1254 cc
- Does the EU-5 exhaust still emit throaty boxer sound or is a Brussels euro-weenie wet fart ? Does the Akra EU-3 with removeable db-killers still fit (hopefully) ?
- How about the handling as almost 2 cm more wheelbase and 9 mm more trail are also big changes and suggest more stability ?
Let us know and clue us in you lucky bastards...
I hear the rest of the boxer line will be inveiled nov 8 in Milano...as also the all new S1000RR that will be 15 kilos lighter and have 13 hp more...
Unfortunately no R1250S (yet) but I have not given up on the 17 inch GS wheel street version straight from the factory...
- 143 NM TORQUE is HUGE but how about the top-end of only 136 hp...can you feel it on the last 2000rpm as I expected 20 hp more or at least 145 hp out of 1254 cc
- Does the EU-5 exhaust still emit throaty boxer sound or is a Brussels euro-weenie wet fart ? Does the Akra EU-3 with removeable db-killers still fit (hopefully) ?
- How about the handling as almost 2 cm more wheelbase and 9 mm more trail are also big changes and suggest more stability ?
Let us know and clue us in you lucky bastards...
I hear the rest of the boxer line will be inveiled nov 8 in Milano...as also the all new S1000RR that will be 15 kilos lighter and have 13 hp more...
Unfortunately no R1250S (yet) but I have not given up on the 17 inch GS wheel street version straight from the factory...