The All New LIQUID COOLED R1200GS threadfest

Either lives outside the US or has never really priced a BMW bike?

Halogen is standard, the options are 1. LED daytime running light or 2. ALL LED, yes, high, low and daytime running light. The picture should resolve any doubt:

I would like to see another wind tunnel shot, with the seat high instead of low and with a 6'5" rider

since 2005 on the HP2E and 2007 on the MM.

HP2S on the other side.

That's an interview with the product manager for the new 1200GS.
He mentioned "Precission-cooling" with 65% air cooling and 35% water cooling, water replacing oil...
He says that both the old and the 2013 GS weigh 238kg (with ABS).
2.8kg more weight due to water and the coolers...however they were able to reduce the weight of the drive train....
The water cooling is not "visible"
For the first time in 90 years shaft drive moves to the left...
benefit muffler on the right side (side effect no burned feet when handling the bike and moving it on the main stand...)


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Hehe!

I think we should call it the Prawn-head.

Love the bike so far, but as mentioned that beak! Hopefully a Adventure like beak available to smooth it out a bit. How does it pass test for pedestrian safety? Stick a few on the front of your car and see how long before the coppers are onto you?

Can't see me issuing a work order to myself...

Na ... it opens a new class of bikes: Sporkbikes.

I figured that might be the case. BMW tends to quote weights for bikes in a basic spec (no ABS or other goodies), and I suspect that the 229 kg weight of the GS on their website was optimistic in any case. Certainly when the GS has been independently weighed, it's around the 240 kg mark.

BMW's listed weights are optimistic. Someone at the link below weighed a fully fueled 1200GS and it was nearly 243kg. The GSA was 273.

http://advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=12836924&postcount=2381

The new WC/GS looks very, very promising (I really like it). However, whats its wheelbase and head angle? If BMW went to "sport" with these changes, I just might stay old school with the previous version, because of its near perfect balance of canyon carving/stay with sport bikes and ability to tour.

All the dimensions are on the BMW website.

Like Paladin said right behind you... the Camheads have the sight glass on the left and fill on the right.

Its really fun topping off the oil when you have to keep running around to the other side check the level :huh

Maybe there is a bit of (odd) German logic to this:

"Vell you tipp ze little bit of oil, and by ze time you have valked around ze motozikle to ze sight glass, ze oil level vill have settled out, zo you know PRECIZLEY! How much more oil it needz. Ya, this is good Cherman logic. Sure, it takes you 5 minutes to do thirty second job, but what price PRECIZION!"

Oh, I missed that! Why on earth would they have done that to the cam heads?

Because every doofus using the sight glass to judge oil top-offs on the oilheads ended up overfilling them. Oilhead hint: add 4 oz, check level. If still low, add 4 oz more. Stop.

For those wondering what a new ADV will look like, this early leaked post from Wunderlich pretty much nailed the look of the standard GS. It also has a view of an ADV model (looks like an ADV model, at least).

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=19717594&postcount=2275



Gives me hope that the ADV will look less DB.

Hey!! I resemble that comment!!:fyyff