Just had an e-mail from someone I know at BMW(GB) in answer to the question of when is the 1200 Adventure likely to break cover.
As quoted on another thread here, about 3 years.
Bike model life is around five years, the 1150 Adventure has been out for 2 years and will remain in production for another three (presumably to recover as much of the tooling costs as possible).
Pieter De Waal (BMW Motorrad UK Manager) has said that the aim is to launch two new models a year.
Seems likely that a 1200GS Adventure will be seen as a derivative as opposed to a new model in its own right and be bumped down the order in favour of other 1200 twins and fours!
The thing that might spur them on is if a company such as Touratech started producing their own "Adventure" based on the 1200 and if it sold in enough numbers to convince BMW that a factory version had sufficient demand.
As quoted on another thread here, about 3 years.
Bike model life is around five years, the 1150 Adventure has been out for 2 years and will remain in production for another three (presumably to recover as much of the tooling costs as possible).
Pieter De Waal (BMW Motorrad UK Manager) has said that the aim is to launch two new models a year.
Seems likely that a 1200GS Adventure will be seen as a derivative as opposed to a new model in its own right and be bumped down the order in favour of other 1200 twins and fours!
The thing that might spur them on is if a company such as Touratech started producing their own "Adventure" based on the 1200 and if it sold in enough numbers to convince BMW that a factory version had sufficient demand.