New BMW HP4
 

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http://blog.motorcycle.com/2012/07/27/manufacturers/bmw/2013-bmw-hp4-revealed-a-lighter-track-oriented-s1000rr-with-dynamic-damping-and-launch-control/

That is a really beautiful bike!!!
I was expecting a super duper boxer bike so I was still slightly dissapointed...
Either way, better start saving!

yup!
HP as BMW where quirky, but charming and innovative bikes, what for they are loved and cherished until now more than any other makes.
Alright, performance might be there, but wrong name, for a wrong sort of a bike.

Does this mean that we will not see another boxer sports bike from BMW? If so, I am disappointed...

meaning existing boxers will become gold dust:eek:

Yes ATA, that was what I was thinking. A HP2S will probably be more in demand than ever. I want one, but I don't want to sell my beautiful R1100S, and my wife would have a fit if I bought a second bike. Life is not easy ;-)

Wow! Just when I have been saying how I really don't plan to ever buy another four cylinder............Now BMW drops the hammer and offers us a absolute bomb shell of safety, power, predictable power, traction control, fastest stopping brakes in the class.........plus great classic looks. Wonder how much this little Q-tee is going to cost. Who would have ever thought the BMW could offer us such a racing machine for the street...........Thanks for the post Peter

Too japanese for my tastes. I'm just not into those UJ-4's. I had a CBR1000 but it was never anything "special" for me.

I've ridden the S1000. Nice, but too much like any hot-rod Honda or Yamaha for me.

If you like them, fine. Enjoy. I prefer the R12S.

I'm left wandering , where you any sarcastic or it was honest opinion? (would be valid and sensible), just unlike anticipated for a boxer owner...:confused:

you could hide it at my house. SmileWavy

it's nice, but no where near the mojo of my HP1258S! :D

In between AT.........in that I am more like Leaf in my heart and to me it will always be two cylinders, and air-cooled if possible. And yet.......we must move on into the now and stay in the presence tense. The new BMW seems to tout its inherent safety advances as much as its power to the wheel. Young and old riders alike should find this good news. The fact is that BMW has decided that they can offer one of the safest, best handling, traction controlled, dynamic suspensioned bullets.......ever offered on a motorcycle for the street...............and still be leading the factories in WSBK. I would get one if I were younger but most likely will not. I have another problem anyway..........and it is that every time I walk into my friends Aprilla shop..........the RSV4 just jumps out to me, and suddenly I think in terms of taking it out and running some hard scrape route into the back roads. On the other hand.........I can buy a HP4 if I want to, but it just seems a waste on me, at my age, but they have to be sold to somebody..........

+1

Why do i get the feeling that this group (Advil chuckers), for the most part, is not the target market.

At's cos you been chuckin' too much advil, Bubba. No feelin'.

Some day... Young fellows on their Hp4 derivatives, will notice old guys riding around on HP2's. Like we do now at the old guys still riding airheads... :)

lol true!

I really liked the exhaust sound of those old airheads. Must be getting old...

Thanks!:mad:
sounds like Madona period, some(including yours) loved her:D

Much of the so-called "safety" features of the S1000/UJM are an effort to keep riders from using all the horsepower they like to brag about having! lol Reading the (foundering) motorcycle press, the yearly horsepower wars is a key to selling bikes.

A current year 190 hp bike relegates previous 175 hp bikes to simply also-rans. It's sorta like the 1/4 mile e.t. wars used to be. If a bike bested last year's model by a tenth of a second then it was the new King that everybody wanted to buy.

Fact is, very few riders could/would stroke any of the bikes through a 1/4 mile in that time and, fact is, very few people can now lay-down 190 hp to the asphalt.

Basically, the "traction control" features and other electronic engine control features are there to allow manufacturing and marketing of extermely high horspower machines (to brag about) but to have these electronic progams essentially as governors to prevent the unwitting rider from trying to use that horsepower !

I don't think this march into hyper-hp nirvana is necessarily being young and progressive. Not all young folks are biting in to this cake either. Many of them are wanting something different from the ubiquitous 4-cylinder japanese crotch rockets.
My twins sure get a lot of attention whenever I park them around the crotch rocket crowd, especially the V Twin Guzzis.

Hey, I'm not knocking the japanese bikes and their S1000 cousins. If you like them, then have at it.

As I said, I had a pretty red CBR1000RR before they eliminated the under-seat exhaust. It was nice and I enjoyed it. Lol, it needed traction control, though.

No offense to anyone here. I just prefer the twins such as the boxers and the new Guzzi models. and I'm not that old ... yet!