BMW's making a bike with a straight six?

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Grey Thumper · Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:51 pm

Dunno how much of this concept will end up in a production bike, but a lot of the details seem fit for production:

koji52 · #2 Unread post by **koji52** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 2:19 am

Loove the look of that bike....Especially that long swingarm.

HYPERR · #3 Unread post by **HYPERR** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:53 am

Great looking bike!

Is BMW looking to go after the Hayabusa & ZX14 buyers?

High_Side · Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:15 pm

Cool bike, but I can't help but think that there is someone in Germany who is a Honda fan.

The EVO6 Honda from '07:

HYPERR · #5 Unread post by **HYPERR** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:00 pm

High_Side wrote:Cool bike, but I can't help but think that there is someone in Germany who is a Honda fan.

The EVO6 Honda from '07:

Sharp eye High Side! It seems BMW is deviating from making very original designs and are now copying Japanese bikes.

king robb · #6 Unread post by **king robb** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:13 pm

and strangely enough...the Honda is the better looking of the two. IMHO of course

#7 Unread post by **Wrider** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:00 pm

HYPERR wrote:Great looking bike!

Is BMW looking to go after the Hayabusa & ZX14 buyers?

Agreed, beautiful, but as for the Busa and Ninja buyers, they've already got the K1300S out there for them.

Grey Thumper · Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:26 pm

According to the article, "The new BMW straight-six will further expand the K-Series in the foreseeable future. The first model to be introduced will be an innovative and luxurious BMW touring machine."

It's pretty vague wording. You never know, they still might come up with S (or even R) versions.

High_Side · #9 Unread post by **High_Side** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:44 am

HYPERR wrote: It seems BMW is deviating from making very original designs and are now copying Japanese bikes.

Well, if Honda won't make it why not someone else? Honda have been so slow to bring new bikes to market that they are essentially providing the competition with ideas,like the RSV-4 Aprilia. The bike that everyone was asking Honda for finally got built by someone else.....and they did a great job.
I'm still waiting for Honda to build the 644 Supermono show bike from a dozen years ago....

paul246 · #10 Unread post by **paul246** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:39 am

High_Side wrote:Cool bike, but I can't help but think that there is someone in Germany who is a Honda fan.

The EVO6 Honda from '07:

Man, that IS one nice looking machine!