Niiiiiice

[busy builder]

this looks good, better than my grey one

 

[Benchmark]

Similar colours to the Japanese Celebration Edition 100 http://www.bmw-motorrad.jp/jp/ja/in...00rt/r1200rt_special_edition.html&prm_action=

 

[knapdog]

Personally, I think the stripes look naff, cheapens it and makes it look like something out of the 1970's rather than a modern machine.
I think the change to black engines btw is going to he a big improvement.

 

[oddshapedballs]

Looks like it's wearing 1970's Martini decals.

 

[Karlread]

Martini Porsche, U.K. Bikes will be with a black engine (which still corrodes�&#56897

 

[Colin]

porous

I wonder if they paint the engines because the castings are porous, and that seals them up. I wonder what it would be like if when doing a rebuild you stripped all the paint off and just left a cast alloy finish like a air head.

 

[kennyc]

I wonder if they paint the engines because the castings are porous, and that seals them up. I wonder what it would be like if when doing a rebuild you stripped all the paint off and just left a cast alloy finish like a air head.

depends on whether you clear coat or not, if not it will turn into a furball in very short order! the paint is a protective finish

 

[Karlread]

Casings are magnesium alloy, unlike the old 2v boxer engines.

 

[Yonkyo]

this looks good, better than my grey one

I quit like that, looks a bit Plod like though , but nice anyway.

 

[Karlread]

How many more "celebratory" editions will they be looking to release this year?
Iconic, anniversary of 110 years, how about VE Day and the collapse of the Berlin Wall?

 

[Neil W]

Saw one of these in the flesh and other than it need s some gold pinstrips it is much nicer

 

[basingstokesteve]

Saw one of these in the flesh and other than it need s some gold pinstrips it is much nicer

Very Nice!!!

 

[mark2jag]

Saw one of these in the flesh and other than it need s some gold pinstrips it is much nicer

GOLD PINSTRIPES...... Really?????????????? errrr no........Not wearing a gold medallion round yer neck are you????

 

[octatonic]

Very Nice!!!

I think we have 4 or 5 owners of Iconics here on the forum.
I'm one of them.
53/100 is my bike.

Gold pinstripe?
No thanks.

 

[Neil W]

No gold chain BUT the Iconic model is supposed to emulate the old r100rt with its paint scheme, in the flesh the colour scheme is superb but because the new r1200rt is so much larger and slabbier it just needs something to remove some of that slab sided look.

GOLD PINSTRIPES...... Really?????????????? errrr no........Not wearing a gold medallion round yer neck are you????

 

[casbar]

this looks good, better than my grey one

Now that looks really nice

 

[DaveCly]

No gold stripes for me ! But do like the white one

 

[Boxed-in]

I think we have 4 or 5 owners of Iconics here on the forum.
I'm one of them.
53/100 is my bike.

Gold pinstripe?
No thanks.

Number 40 and no Gold thank you....

 

[Macfie]

I think we have 4 or 5 owners of Iconics here on the forum.
I'm one of them.
53/100 is my bike.

Gold pinstripe?
No thanks.

Make that six... But definitely no gold.