New DS on the market

[OrangevaleFJR]

Well...looks like BMW understands the market over here pretty well...the have the 650, 800 and 1200 DS bikes.

 

[Scab]

Very cool.

Is that a fuel lid I see? (Behind where your ass would go.)

 

[Neil San Diego]

Very cool.
Is that a fuel lid I see? (Behind where your ass would go.)

Yep, the 650 and 800 Rotax engine bikes have the gas tank under the seat.

 

[twowheelnut]

Bikes For Sale:

DL650AK7, fully farkled, low miles.

FJR1300K5, fullly farkled, not so low miles. Lovingly crashed, just once.

PM me for details and photos.

Need room in garage for new toy...

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

https://www.motociclismo.it/edisport/moto/g...RL%26AutoFramed

 

[shokdimn]

Am I confused or is the chain on the wrong side? :unknw:

 

[twowheelnut]

Am I confused or is the chain on the wrong side? :unknw:

That's the right-hand drive version. We get the left.

 

[keithaba]

Very cool.
Is that a fuel lid I see? (Behind where your ass would go.)

That depends on how big your ass is. For some, that is directly under where your ass would go!

Cool looking bike though. I like everything but the radiator location. It kinda bulgest out, and looks like something is missing from underneath it.

 

[double_entendre]

Bikes For Sale:
DL650AK7, fully farkled, low miles.

FJR1300K5, fullly farkled, not so low miles. Lovingly crashed, just once.

PM me for details and photos.

Need room in garage for new toy...

Pretty fookin' pretty, but I wonder how good it'd be as a long-distance toy. TBH, I'm pretty spoiled by shaft drive after years of chain drive bikes. I like this low maintenance thing. :yahoo:

Still love the old Paris Dakar 1100 GS models.

Rancho

 

[Fred W]

Am I confused or is the chain on the wrong side? :unknw:

Same side as my Pegaso 650, which also has a Rotax engine, though only a 1 cylinder.

That new Beemer likes like the shizzat. I'll bet they will be very proud of it though, if past history tells us anything. Prolly cost as much as a brand new Feejer.

 

[FJRMGM]

not only that, just saw a belt-driven BMW at the motorcycle show yesterday.

What is the world coming to??

 

[Fred W]

not only that, just saw a belt-driven BMW at the motorcycle show yesterday.
What is the world coming to??

The F650 CS has been belt drive since it came out. It's supposed to be the "City Sport" hence the belt drive.

The other F650 models retain the chain drive.

 

[RenoJohn]

Bikes For Sale:
DL650AK7, fully farkled, low miles.

FJR1300K5, fullly farkled, not so low miles. Lovingly crashed, just once.

PM me for details and photos.

Need room in garage for new toy...

LOL, ya that BMW appears to fit a very good niche ...I think they'll do well with it and no worries about FD failures, instead a nice efficient chain drive. I look forward to seeing the performance spec's on this machine. -TWN, what are you going to do when you find out that your little 650weestrom is faster than this fancy new BMW?

I think that they'll be a lot of people not selling one, but perhaps a couple of bikes to buy this new flavor of GS .....it'll be fun to see.

 

[twowheelnut]

-TWN, what are you going to do when you find out that your little 650weestrom is faster than this fancy new BMW?

If it can't top 110, then I shall snicker mightily!

 

[beemerdons]

I already have a deposit on the F800GS placed with Owner David Slepak at Scottsdale BMW Motorcycles, und Ja, the bike costs what I paid for my 2003 Yamaha FJR 1300 in September 2002! But when you already have a blue und white roundel tattoo and you first drank the BMW Kool-Aide back in 1969, what the hell can you do! Ach du lieber, es geht mihr gut schatzie! I'll keep my BMW R1100GS, along with my FJR, Harley-Davidson Dyna Glide and BMW R1150RT.

Now that SkooterG has a job, I am hoping that he will buy my 2006 Kawasaki KLR 650 from me. That bike is perfectly set up for Mexico exploring, I just returned from a 3,000 kilometer trip on it to Barrancas del Cobre in Chihuahua, MEX.

Here's the information that I've received from Gunter in Munchen und Hans in Berlin: 85 horsepower at 8,000 rpm; 63 foot lbs. of torque at 5,800 rpm; 400 lbs. dry weight; 4.4 gallon tank capacity; tested to 115 mph, close to a V-Strom.

The models you saw at the bike show were the F800S and F800ST version of this bike. Auf Wiedersehen, Dieter Dirndl

 

[beemerdons]

I will move this over to the Classified Ads when my F800GS arrives, but if anyone happens to be interested in a 2006 Kawasaki KLR 650 perfectly set up for Alaska and Mexico at this present time, here is a picture taken of it at the first bridge crossing over Rio Urique on the way to the village of Batopilas at the very bottom of Mexico's Copper Canyon.

https://www.azbeemers.org/forum/index.php?topic=640.0

 

[twowheelnut]

Now that SkooterG has a job...

*choke, sporf, snicker* Say what?! Gainfully employed? Skooter? What's he doing, handing out mints in the men's room of the Scottsdale Fairmont?

 

[Fred W]

Now that SkooterG has a job...

*choke, sporf, snicker* Say what?! Gainfully employed? Skooter? What's he doing, handing out mints in the men's room of the Scottsdale Fairmont?

Those are the same mints that you normally piss on in the urinals there. So wash your hands, like the sign says...

 

[Fred W]

I will move this over to the Classified Ads when my F800GS arrives, but if anyone happens to be interested in a 2006 Kawasaki KLR 650 perfectly set up for Alaska and Mexico at this present time, here is a picture taken of it at the first bridge crossing over Rio Urique on the way to the village of Batopilas at the very bottom of Mexico's Copper Canyon.
https://www.azbeemers.org/forum/index.php?topic=640.0

Don,

I have absolutely no interest in a KLR (been there, done that, fixed the doo-hickey) but I have to tell you, your Copper Canyon Ride report is muy hilariouso. You guys look like the kinda guys I'd love to share a ride and a few cervesas with.

Keep it coming, mang. Don' be no stranger...