Test ride

[red1]

Having my free coffee and boring pants off salesman so he gave me the keys to get rid of me for an hour.

What a great bike. Great engine, good chassis, good screen! Hardly changed out of 6th for the whole ride. Lovely sound from Acropolis can, like 30 screaming Greek virgins!

Downside? Speedo markings are invisible unless you squint, throttle too twitchy, costs £14K

Perfect bike for the weekend warrior brigade. Looks like a GS but just not a GS.

The Sudanese blacksmith who knocks wheels back in shape and makes all the bits that have broken will be fucked sorting out FBW throttle

 

[Flipfly]

Acropolis can

It's all greek to me

 

[Giles]

Hardly changed out of 6th for the whole ride??

 

[Jumblemo]

Try 5th, it's a great gear too!

 

[red1]

One other thing I thought was piss poor was the "designer" angel eyes led light thingy. Definitely not as good for road presence as a headlight.

 

[krytengs]

"Hardly changed out of 6th"

On my test rides I was hardly out of 2nd in town and 3rd when the speed picked up as there was so much low end grunt.
In fact on the motorway, I had to change up to 4,5,6....just to see what those gears were like.

 

[red1]

It seems the common response to my post shows the lack of understanding of the meaning of "low end grunt" and its usefulness in riding at lower revs in a higher gear.

Obviously the new toilet has a great number of aficionados with the sports bike world where revs rule.

I can only presume that the next BMW Twat suits will be leather and in a range of day-glow/fluorescent colours

Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

I can only presume that the next BMW Twat suits will be leather and in a range of day-glow/fluorescent colours

Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

Don't forget the 'aero hump', really important for every R1 rider at 60mph on the road

 

[red1]

Don't forget the 'aero hump', really important for every R1 rider at 60mph on the road

Excellent idea JB, somewhere to place the BMW roundel!

 

[Jumblemo]

Don't forget the 'aero hump', really important for every R1 rider at 60mph on the road

Essential...doubles as camelbak

 

[Flipfly]

Essential...doubles as camelbak

Toilet owners must be faster, fitter and slimmer than me. I need my Verns just to carry my lunch. If I had to fit it in a hump on my back I'd look like quasimodo

I look like an overstuffed sausage in leathers!

 

[Elvisto]

Toilet owners must be faster, fitter and slimmer than me. I need my Verns just to carry my lunch. If I had to fit it in a hump on my back I'd look like quasimodo

I look like an overstuffed sausage in leathers!

It doesn't matter what you look like mate just stay above ground level as long as possible

 

[krytengs]

It seems the common response to my post shows the lack of understanding of the meaning of "low end grunt" and its usefulness in riding at lower revs in a higher gear.

Obviously the new toilet has a great number of aficionados with the sports bike world where revs rule.

I can only presume that the next BMW Twat suits will be leather and in a range of day-glow/fluorescent colours

Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

Having ridden mainly 1L plus bikes in my years of riding means I've never really had to wring a bikes neck to get a good amount of grunt out of it, so have rarely bounced off the rev limiter. I ride a bike in the revs where it feels the most responsive\suitable for the situation.

During my test rides of the LC, it just happened that at legal speeds there was absolutely no need to change up into higher gears just for the sake of it....and funnily enough the engine wasnt screaming.

Maybe when I get mine, I will explore the higher gears more and decide whether there is any benefit to riding in 6th around town?

Yep, the fact that the LC feels and rides more sportily is definitely what attracted me to it over the older models. The LC will definitely attract those wanting to move away from pure sports bikes to something more comfortable yet sporty.