Why did you get rid??
Former HP2 Owners - Why did you sell?
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I bought it on a whim after Bluesweeper took me round the Wombat Hunt on a test ride. It was just so much fun vs the GS1200 I had at the time. Then sold the GS to BTBR and bought a 1200GSA which just seemed to tick all the boxes.
Used the HP2 for greenlane run outs with fellow GSers, the local TRF and runs to Salisbury Plain but as Bakerman will testify to I found it way too much of a handful doing a great impression of Torvil and Dean on wet chalk. A stunning bike but too much power for me at least, ended up with a KTM 250 EXC-F which was really all I needed (and fraction of the cost)
Don't mistake me I think the HP2 is a great bike and just seeing it in the garage gave me a buzz but in the end the GSA1200 and a pogo was the right combo. Still, AndyT seems chuffed with it.
Used the HP2 for greenlane run outs with fellow GSers, the local TRF and runs to Salisbury Plain but as Bakerman will testify to I found it way too much of a handful doing a great impression of Torvil and Dean on wet chalk. A stunning bike but too much power for me at least, ended up with a KTM 250 EXC-F which was really all I needed (and fraction of the cost)
Don't mistake me I think the HP2 is a great bike and just seeing it in the garage gave me a buzz but in the end the GSA1200 and a pogo was the right combo. Still, AndyT seems chuffed with it.
beachman
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im still asking myself that.....
not regreting it, I rode it around europe ( its no tourer but nor was it intended to be) after 10,000 kms and dirt riding back home but not having access to the hpn tanks etc , i sold it and then eventually bought a 2008gsa. If i owned one now, i would adventurize it, big tank, screen etc. Its still heavy to land off a jump and u have to be a gun rider to throw it around like ezberg rodeo style but its still the best bike bmw has produced. The gsa still has 500 kms on it and soon with have thousands more, its an excelent bike to cross town or the world on and the later is what i intend to do on it. When the dudes at bmw decide, maybe they with do something with the hp2 to make it a cross between the gsa/hp2 megamoto with 18/21 and ohlins allround and thrown in the gs900rr body kit and we are probably looking at the best all time bike ever. Incidently, Dave from this site bought my hp2 and is loving it, hp2's rock
not regreting it, I rode it around europe ( its no tourer but nor was it intended to be) after 10,000 kms and dirt riding back home but not having access to the hpn tanks etc , i sold it and then eventually bought a 2008gsa. If i owned one now, i would adventurize it, big tank, screen etc. Its still heavy to land off a jump and u have to be a gun rider to throw it around like ezberg rodeo style but its still the best bike bmw has produced. The gsa still has 500 kms on it and soon with have thousands more, its an excelent bike to cross town or the world on and the later is what i intend to do on it. When the dudes at bmw decide, maybe they with do something with the hp2 to make it a cross between the gsa/hp2 megamoto with 18/21 and ohlins allround and thrown in the gs900rr body kit and we are probably looking at the best all time bike ever. Incidently, Dave from this site bought my hp2 and is loving it, hp2's rock
Because I was going to die
Stop trying to convince youself you don't want one
Jonny and get your money out
What the man said - you won't regret it
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I guess it must come down to 1 of 2 reasons... People like to change their bikes just for something different and that shouldn't detract from what is a really serious bit of kit. On the other hand no bike is good at everything and I guess blokes buy a bike in the same way a woman chooses a man in so far as although the bike won't do everything asked of it they convince themselves that with a bit of changing here and there it soon will
I'm not really sure what the HP2 is really good at apart from having the ability of comfortably covering 4-500 miles in a day and blasting round forrest tracks and open trails at the other end. Its not the tourer that the 1150GS can be nor the off road versatility of an X-Challenge however its a good compromise of the 2. I think the HP2 would come into its own on a trip down to Morocco or similar especially if someone would market a realistically priced bigger tank for it.
Just my tuppence.
AndyT
I'm not really sure what the HP2 is really good at apart from having the ability of comfortably covering 4-500 miles in a day and blasting round forrest tracks and open trails at the other end. Its not the tourer that the 1150GS can be nor the off road versatility of an X-Challenge however its a good compromise of the 2. I think the HP2 would come into its own on a trip down to Morocco or similar especially if someone would market a realistically priced bigger tank for it.
Just my tuppence.
AndyT
Wings
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I sold one coz i had two I shall keep the new one for a very long time.
ovenpaa
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Why did I get rid? No idea really, and I do miss it.
Johnny,
It's not a question of why others have sold it as a question of why you should buy...
We both know the XC is the best all round trail bike (from the BMW range) that you can ride across country, green lane and win rally's on, so why would you want an HP2? you'll be no quicker off-road and when looking at tank range may even be quicker cross country on the XC.
However I think you should buy an HP2 because you have the ability to ride one both on and off-road a level a bike like that deserves
It's not a question of why others have sold it as a question of why you should buy...
We both know the XC is the best all round trail bike (from the BMW range) that you can ride across country, green lane and win rally's on, so why would you want an HP2? you'll be no quicker off-road and when looking at tank range may even be quicker cross country on the XC.
However I think you should buy an HP2 because you have the ability to ride one both on and off-road a level a bike like that deserves
I'm not going to sell mine.
Possu
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I think the HP2 would come into its own on a trip down to Morocco or similar especially if someone would market a realistically priced bigger tank for it.
AndyT
The 10 litre underseat fuel tank from Markus in Germany is a fair price IMO (unless price has increased recently?).
Trippy
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I heard he was getting another Airhead 
Johnny has been a troubled man every since he let his Airhead go... He thought she'd only have eyes for him and now he's forced to seeing me ride the arse of her and can see that she like's being ridden dirty and hard more than the kind and caring way he rode her.
So no there was only one Airhead in Johnny's life and she's gone ;-)
And like most blokes whio find themselves in this position he just jumps from one new ride to another and now his looking at the HP2, the equivelent of having a Russian girlfriend
So no there was only one Airhead in Johnny's life and she's gone ;-)
And like most blokes whio find themselves in this position he just jumps from one new ride to another and now his looking at the HP2, the equivelent of having a Russian girlfriend
ovenpaa
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Brilliant! 
Thanks for those words, Wreford
Yes I miss Airhead Lucy in some ways as she is the epitome of a Airhead offroad special and certainly one of the best
I never had any trouble riding her offroad and although I never raced her, it was one of the few bikes that I've never fallen off on the dirt
Everything you threw her way, she just took and refused to shake her head
Having said that, everytime I've ridden a HP2 I thought that something didn't seem quite right and it didn't seem balanced
Timolgra has summed it up in the past
So the XChallenge is the bike to ride - more than capable on the trail and easy to ride across country
Again it's a bike that has remained upright on the trail with me aboard
I shall do some mods over winter for 2009
The HP2 is not a bike to be bought with the head but with the heart, it makes no sense in any way yet it is luring and seductive in so many ways that is not right. So on that note I am walking out of the office getting on my russian girlfriend and going home
HP2 Lust
Well Jonny mine is not for sale .
I have used and abused it for 3 years now and hopefully many more to come
now that all the hype is gone from the hp, we can appriciate! it for the way it mixes off road and trail, we may never again be allowed to buy a off the shelf a bike so competent. it takes my mind of a GS850 special Like this
see here
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Gunner1949/BMWEnduro#
pg
and i bet Jonny is sick for selling it
Well Jonny mine is not for sale .
I have used and abused it for 3 years now and hopefully many more to come
now that all the hype is gone from the hp, we can appriciate! it for the way it mixes off road and trail, we may never again be allowed to buy a off the shelf a bike so competent. it takes my mind of a GS850 special Like this
see here
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Gunner1949/BMWEnduro#
pg
and i bet Jonny is sick for selling it
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