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Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - Kaan - 05-27-2010
Freak'n BMW...
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Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - G.Irish - 05-27-2010
Wow the Japanese factories will look really stupid if BMW comes in and kicks their asses in the 600 cc supersport market. I hope this touches off a sportbike arms race the likes of which we've never seen...
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - Kaan - 05-27-2010
it will spark a price race like you've never seen!
i might be dating myself, but i remember when you could buy a 600cc bike for $5.8k our the door... a 1k cc bike for $7.2k out the door.... we are now DOUBLE in price already!
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - Apoc - 05-27-2010
BMW spark a price race? I seriously doubt that.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - .RJ - 05-27-2010
They already fired a pretty solid shot in the 1000cc market.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - SlimKlim - 05-27-2010
^ What he said.
![[Image: bmw-motorrad-wsbk-photoshoot-3-560x375.jpg]](http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bmw-motorrad-wsbk-photoshoot-3-560x375.jpg)
Soooooo Sexxyyyyy.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - Apoc - 05-27-2010
.RJ Wrote:They already fired a pretty solid shot in the 1000cc market.
Iunno... being priced 10% higher doesn't seem like it would spark a price war to me.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - Kaan - 05-28-2010
10% here, 10% there and before you know it (like now) we are paying double what we used to pay for a bike. you cant tell me we've had 100% inflation in 10 years.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - Apoc - 05-28-2010
Oh, you meant BMW pushing prices higher. Yeah, that I agree with.
I think the sharp increase is due to all the technology that goes on these bikes now. There is so much crap, like ABS, DST, brakes, etc, etc, etc, that just weren't a part of mainstream sportbikes 10 years ago. Someone's gotta pay for all that R&D
I'm just salty that a 10 y/o Ducati is still 2x what I paid for my SV 5.5 years ago.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - Kaan - 05-28-2010
well the new bike prices have driven up the used bike prices IMO.
traction control, ABS, etc... i get that... but the prices didnt jump this fast when bikes were switching over to "exotic" metals.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - .RJ - 05-28-2010
And now the BMW makes 20hp over anything else. The rest of them will scramble to catch up, and raise prices to match.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - stevegula - 05-28-2010
Quote:BMW has officially denied the existence or development of a 600cc sportsbike to run alongside the all-conquering S1000RR released this year.http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/New-bikes/2010/April/may0510-bmw-officially-denies-s600rr/
The denial has come about after it emerged that BMW owns the internet domain name <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.s600rr.de">www.s600rr.de</a><!-- w --> but clarification from BMW claims this was done to protect the rights to the name because someone else was trying to use it in Germany.
Re: Dirty Motorcycle Rumors! - Kaan - 05-28-2010
yeah i'll believe that
... they still need to catch the japanese not looking