BMW K1600 Launch

[Big Dave]

Well we're just counting down to the launch of the new K1600 BMW at Peppers Kingscliffe - Northern NSW. As usual the photos don't do the machine justice. We have a presentation on the bike this evening and a 400km ride planned for tomorrow. 13 bikes will be in the convoy. Part of the ride is at night so we can see how the active headlight system works. There are a few pics on our Flickr pages:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwirid...th/5802838083/
Phat daze!

[unstuck]

Looks nice.

[Big Dave]

Yeah -it looked a bit slab sided in the promo pics, but the ones sans-top box are quite nice looking.

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

It will be interesting to get your opinion Dave, and how it compair's to the Concourse 1400, FJ and ST which I guess its pitted against in all but price, or is it trying to get into the Goldwing market?
Have they improved the drive train backlash?
And that weird whistling whining noise the multi cylinder ones make (except the 1000 RR)
How much will it be over here? I'm guessing in the high 40'sK?

The problem I found with BMW is they seem to be so much more money than anything else but don't seem to offer that difference in anything particular, even there re-sale values dive the same as anything else (except) if its on a showroom floor (generally gathering dust). Plus anything you want to 'add' in the form of branded accessories cost an arm and a leg.

[Big Dave]

Thanks KG - tomorrow will tell - 21c early cloud. My guess is it's in the GL1800 niche. Will know more in a few hours. The Aussie press corps are just arriving now.

I'm by the pool with a JD.

[MIXONE]

Thanks KG - tomorrow will tell - 21c early cloud. My guess is it's in the GL1800 niche. Will know more in a few hours. The Aussie press corps are just arriving now.

I'm by the pool with a JD.

And some people call it work.

[jaffaonajappa]

Do they have DVD players and built in chilly bins?

[Big Dave]

And some people call it work.

Criminal innnit.

Mind you the flight over was a bit of a mission. Virgin blue issued a boarding pass for a flight that doesn't exist and cancelled the flight that did exist.

A lot of the day was in Brissy airport limbo.

[Big Dave]

Do they have DVD players and built in chilly bins?

Not sure about DVD - it is the MP3 age.

Buttttt - You could fit 6 dozen in the luggage

[BMWST?]

so is the red one a gt and the silver a gtl?

[Big Dave]

so is the red one a gt and the silver a gtl?

Believe so. There is a navy blue gtl too

[shafty]

Have fun ya lucky Bustard;

My reading is that the BM is directly pointed at the GL market and priced within a hundred bucks in the US - I'll confirm that when I arrive there in 5 weeks for a Route 66 gig.(Couldn't resist)

Seems pretty aggressive for BM, but the big H has had the mega tourer market by default for...er...decades. When I bought my V4, the BM equiv was $10,000 more than Honda's - that's huge, - hence I moved from the R1150R to the Pan Euro versus a Boxer or Brick RT. So they may be ' meeting the market ' on this one, initially at least, altho, the US pricing may not reflect locally...

You have to admire the technlogy, and how slim they have made that SIX?

6 cylinders in a bike is kinda horny really!

ps Keep up the good work BD

[Devil]

Screw you buddy! mmm i could do with the GT.

From the discussions i've had with BMW, I believe the GT is around the $46k mark, and the GTL about $49k.

[Gremlin]

Mmmmm active headlights

You poor bastard... please, allow me to take this enormous burden off your hands, I can't bear to see you suffer.

[Conquiztador]

As a owner of a old K100 8 valve and a K1 I must say that the pics does not give me a hard-un. And where have I seen those mufflers before... something from the 60's or 70's I recon. It'll come to me...