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What do you make of this then?

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/bmw_s_1000rr/

It even appears to have a proper indicator switch.

 

It looks like a cross between an Arpilia Mille R, a late model GSXR and
a 2004 R1, none of which I particularly liked

 

Maybe I'm misreading your meaning, but 180bhp is what Yamaha claim:
http://www.yamaha-motor.co.uk/products/motorcycles/supersport/yzf_r1.jsp?view=techspecs

 

It's a BMW even I might consider owning...

 

You've changed

 

It looks fine from the side, awful from the front. What is it with BMW
and their obsession with the Patrick Moore squint?

 

I'd have to see a printout of the sauce code for that, before I could
tell you.

Until the paperclip bends, likely.

Seriously, I'd assume it to be a quickshifter, allowing full-throttle
upchanges without having to close the throttle.

 

That's what the rev limiter's for, isn't it?

 

I've always imagined a 'quickshifter' as a fairly crude mechanical
device, whereas "HP shift assistant as optional extra, to shift up
without clutch activation or interference of traction" sounds like it
would be motor-assisted clutch activation and rev control, rather like
that in the VW-group's DSG gearbox.

 

Assuming it's open sauce..

Phil

 

OK, I sit corrected.

Still sounds fairly crude to me, albeit not entirely mechanical. I
don't doubt that it works well, at least for upshifts, but it's still
not exactly sophisticated.

Sure, and it may be that their marketing boys have simply decided to
use a new term for that, particularly given that (and I'd missed this
before) it does only mention its use for upshifts. Indeed, given that,
this is almost certainly the case.

And I guess that, much as I love the DSG on the R36, I'd struggle to
see any advantage to it on a bike.

 

Could it be a new 57-speed box?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ace

I wouldn't relish working on that.

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I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Might make you a little cross. And black? Well...

 

this one looks nicer

http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle...motogp/6901.html&source=weeklyemail&attr=news

 

that's the one thing I dislike on it, the mong-eyes.

 

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