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What is this - anyone know?
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:58 pm
by Mark
This was exhibited at the 2008 Tokyo Motor Show (or so the link says).
Is this possibly a new R1200RS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REqmTfQnkMU 
Re: What is this - anyone know?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:10 am
by Mark
Could it be an old R1200ST?
Re: What is this - anyone know?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:09 am
by TT RDHS
Mark wrote:Could it be an old R1200ST?
Or...
A new one.
Re: What is this - anyone know?
Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:14 am
by Roger John
Most definitely an R1200ST... probably why the clip ends before the view rotates around to the Cyclops front end.. I'd have bought one for sure, having come off of a R1150RS, but that front visage was just so ...Ugh!
Certainly with 28k on my '07 R1200R, I don't feel that I missed out. But the BMW project manager that stuck with the ST's design esthetic, despite what I have to imagine would have been some internal input to the contrary... Well hopefully, that individual has learned a lesson in consensus building. The shame is that from any other angle the rest of the machine presents a very attractive look, and surely it’s a reasonably competent compromise between the full naked of the R1200R and the full Plastic of the R1200RT… Maybe next design cycle will offer a suitable cosmetic remediation
Re: What is this - anyone know?
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:15 pm
by celticus
Yep ST. I'd like to have that lil fairing.
Mark