I currently have an '07 F650GS which is a fine enough bike but lacking that extra oomph I've been yearning for lately.So while I was at the dealer today to get some parts for my X-Challenge I start eye balling the dealer demo '07 R1200R on the showroom floor.Of course shortly into the conversation with the nice sales folks I'm offered a test ride and hey why not it can't hurt anything right?
Well yeah I suppose if you don't have a pulse and an appreciation for a smooth as butter engine then I guess you're safe.Needless to say I was neither as my pulse quickened and my appreciation oozed from under my helmet like a school boy smitten by the girl with the big boobs.
The dollars and sense part of the equation was easy to come to grips with as I was offered a good trade-in on the F650GS and BMW has attractive finance terms and being it had me at start up how was I to be expected to not sign on the dotted line?
Well I tell you I was strong and proud of myself as I was able to walk away without signing and held out for all of 4 hours or so until I called back and sold my soul and said put my name on the nice leftover '07 R1200R we discussed earlier to the nice sales folks.
So I guess next week can't get here soon enough as I'm left yearning to replicate the feeling the mighty R1200R gave me in that tease of a test ride.
