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    BMW Break world land speed record

    A 2006 production model BMW K1200S has set the world land speed record (for it's class). Average speed 173.57 mph.
    This is the new inline four that BMW ar just releasing. Good stuff.
    http://www.webbikeworld.com/BMW-moto...lle-record.htm
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    Quote Originally Posted by zadok
    A 2006 production model BMW K1200S has set the world land speed record (for it's class). Average speed 173.57 mph.
    This is the new inline four that BMW ar just releasing. Good stuff.
    http://www.webbikeworld.com/BMW-moto...lle-record.htm

    what did they do?.. shove it off a cliff?
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    Good to see records being broken, but I'm pretty sure that even the old Hayabusa could easily manage over 186mph average non-streamlined.

    Seems a bit of an odd record.

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    haha, maybe its the BMW only class?
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    But we still have the fastest Indian......
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    it may be fast & it may be expensive but SHIT their UGLY! and it gets worse when Schnitzer gets hold of them
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    Quote Originally Posted by T.W.R
    it may be fast & it may be expensive but SHIT their UGLY! and it gets worse when Schnitzer gets hold of them
    Didn't think they looked that ba. Took this pic at the Perth M/C Show.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by T.W.R
    it may be fast & it may be expensive but SHIT their UGLY! and it gets worse when Schnitzer gets hold of them
    Maybe, but some of their other stuff doesnt look to bad
    http://www.ac-schnitzer.de/englisch/motorrad/index.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by WebBikeWorld
    ...in the 1000 - 1350 cc stock, partially streamlined, naturally aspirated motorcycle class...
    How does a Hayabusa not fit in that class?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aiolos
    How does a Hayabusa not fit in that class?
    Maybe it does, but it might be that no one has run one at that event and got the speed verified, or there could be something in the rules that exclude it
    "If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."


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