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An addiction no rehab can cure
Sat on one today for the first time at the local dealership.
Loaded version, with all the electronics, quickshifter, etc.
Nice!
Tiny.
Impressive fit and finish.
Better looking in person than in photos.
The headlights still look dorky.
IF I were looking for the ultimate, almost-turn-key track bike, and wanted an inline four, it'd be difficult not to make that one the pick.
But I'm not. 
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No Hammer this year :(
 Originally Posted by bwhip
Sat on one today for the first time at the local dealership.
Loaded version, with all the electronics, quickshifter, etc.
Nice!
Tiny.
Impressive fit and finish.
Better looking in person than in photos.
The headlights still look dorky.
IF I were looking for the ultimate, almost-turn-key track bike, and wanted an inline four, it'd be difficult not to make that one the pick.
But I'm not.. YET
What was the price tag?
Do sober what you said what you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway
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Originally Posted by 08silvercbr
What was the price tag?
~$15,500 including tax, tag, title...
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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No Hammer this year :(
Originally Posted by seamus
~$15,500 including tax, tag, title...
Based on magazine prices? Just curious. When we went to the bike show I seen Honda 1k's with $14,000 tags on them (which obviously isn't right) Just wondering what the real world bring it home price was. I take it you've been looking? 
Do sober what you said what you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway
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Originally Posted by 08silvercbr
Based on magazine prices? Just curious. When we went to the bike show I seen Honda 1k's with $14,000 tags on them (which obviously isn't right) Just wondering what the real world bring it home price was. I take it you've been looking?
Just waiting on paperwork now.
Ducit Amor Patriae
Richard Herald, The Gentle Giant
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
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No Hammer this year :(
Originally Posted by seamus
Just waiting on paperwork now.
No kidding! Congrats, I'm happy for you. I also want to ride it.  What color?
Do sober what you said what you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway
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An addiction no rehab can cure
Originally Posted by seamus
Just waiting on paperwork now.
 Dude, you're gonna LOVE that bike. I assume you've sat on one? Any concerns about the size of it compared to, well, you?
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Originally Posted by seamus
Just waiting on paperwork now.
Congrats! Look like you beat me to it. I was planning on waiting another 2 months or so. The dealer where I will most likely get mine from told me that all US bikes are currently being shipped with TC/ABS (which I would get anyway) and that would account for the price difference from the base $13,800. Did your dealer say the same?
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Tiny Elvis sez Lookit those rotors, they're HUGE!
Grats, Rageman! We should meet up for a ride this season. 
You gonna mod it up?
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Originally Posted by seamus
Just waiting on paperwork now.
And you'll be riding it to Spring Stimulus 2010?
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Originally Posted by Baketech
Make that turn-key superbike. It's only about 20hp away from WSBK.
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Tiny Elvis sez Lookit those rotors, they're HUGE!
Hey waitaminit! I'd buy one too, but there's an overriding mission this year.
Are we driven by our dreams, or haunted by them?
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Originally Posted by seamus
Just waiting on paperwork now.
Very good to see! I look forward to reading your reactions to the new bike  .
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Originally Posted by Blorton
Grats, Rageman! We should meet up for a ride this season.
You gonna mod it up?
What exactly do you mod a bike like that up with? Hello Kitty tank guard?
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Tiny Elvis sez Lookit those rotors, they're HUGE!
Originally Posted by ND4SPD
What exactly do you mod a bike like that up with? Hello Kitty tank guard?
Well, a set of lifesaving pipes at the very least. 
Frame and swingarm sliders... some tasty aftermarket bits will surely be showing up for that one. Put me down for some Helis.
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Done.
Originally Posted by ND4SPD
What exactly do you mod a bike like that up with? Hello Kitty tank guard?
Mostly just extra large aviator sunglasses and a fake beard so nobody recognizes you on the hideous beast.
You know, like when "Pete"'s wife goes out in public.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.
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Originally Posted by ND4SPD
What exactly do you mod a bike like that up with? Hello Kitty tank guard?
It's still a moderm beemer, so 15k for a bike and 30k in the accessory catalog. You only thought you didn't need that 300$ CF plate mount 
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An addiction no rehab can cure
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Originally Posted by ND4SPD
What exactly do you mod a bike like that up with? Hello Kitty tank guard?
Thanks for that awesome idea.
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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Since I'm getting so many PMs, I figure it's time to stop pretending I'm bwhip and come clean...
The bike isn't going to be mine, at least not on the title and not after May anyway. I'm facilitating the purchase for my good friend DoubleDan who is in Afghanistan doing the bidness...
I'll be picking up the bike from the dealer when it arrives and putting it in "rideable storage"  until he returns. We're waiting for the bike to arrive at the dealer at which point he gets the paperwork and I cash this check in my wallet and go put a 100% down payment on the bike. Sometime in the next two weeks is the estimate. Just in time for the gravel to be washed off the road and the temps to rise
Soooo, back to the "who will be the first on the board..." question. He'll be the first to own one and I'll be the first to ride one through it's 6000 mile break-in period. At least, that's what I've told Dan the break-in period is anyway...
Since Dan and I are pretty much one person, I think that counts
edit: and he didn't want like the RWB so it's the silver one...
2nd edit: it sure was fun Being BWhip.
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Richard Herald, The Gentle Giant
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
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posing for the camera
This bike for Dan?
whether him or you I'll still lap faster at Grattan 
Last edited by CBRVFR; 01-27-2010 at 03:08 PM.
Reason: time machine at work....
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Silver is the color I'd go for.
I assume you're going for the ABS/Traction Control package? From what I hear it's almost a necessity if you're a normal human.
I haven't completely given up on ordering one myself....
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Originally Posted by seamus
edit: and he didn't like the RWB so it's the silver one...
Just so it isn't the green one - One of the magazine writers dubbed it 'nuclear baby poop.'
It's much less unconventional looking in the other color schemes.
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I'm wiry
I'd have to spring for the rwb paint scheme.
Does BMW have a program for military purchases? I know several actives who bought Harleys through some discount program. (it obviously makes more sense for HD, but considering the amount of troops we rotate through Germany...)
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Originally Posted by Shenders1
Silver is the color I'd go for.
I assume you're going for the ABS/Traction Control package? From what I hear it's almost a necessity if you're a normal human.
I haven't completely given up on ordering one myself....
Yep. Ein schnitzel mit alles, bitte. I'm really interested in seeing how it all came together myself.
Originally Posted by SerialThriller
I'd have to spring for the rwb paint scheme.
Does BMW have a program for military purchases? I know several actives who bought Harleys through some discount program. (it obviously makes more sense for HD, but considering the amount of troops we rotate through Germany...)
Yeah, but those programs are only available when you're overseas. Through the official military programs (AAFES), the requirement is that the vehicle be "made in the US" so, H-D, Jeep, GM, etc are available.
BMW, MB, etc have programs available through local host nation dealers.
Ducit Amor Patriae
Richard Herald, The Gentle Giant
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
---Leonardo Da Vinci
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Hey, what's the gas mileage of this thing, anyway?
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Obtuse Angler
Colour wouldn't matter if I bought one... it would have primer-white skinz on it before the first tank of gas was burned.
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
-Dark Helmet
Crime ain't sumfin you should do. It's sumfin you should don't.
-Ali G
Lobster tail and Beer. Tree o' my favorite tings.
-Newfie Proverb
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No Hammer this year :(
Originally Posted by ND4SPD
Hey, what's the gas mileage of this thing, anyway?
What the.. ( I think its like 32 mpg)
Hey I wonder if that thing could do 160. Rhetorical question Farley.
Do sober what you said what you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. - Ernest Hemingway
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Done.
Originally Posted by phobe
Colour wouldn't matter if I bought one... it would have primer-white skinz on it before the first tank of gas was burned.
I guess it doesn't look all that bad with all the hideous street crap stripped off and given to the Ugly Gods as a burnt offering to drown the memories of how it looked in the showroom.
White skins, minimal striped graphics and a sandblasted, scuffed and clear coated frame.
Actually looks pretty good from my renderings.
Huh.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.
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