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New BMW sports tourer
« on: November 24, 2018, 09:58:21 am »
Calm down, calm down, its only an 850 tiddler:
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2018/november/spy-shots-new-bmw-f850gt-motorcycle/

Decent but chunky panniers, and only 95-100 BHP est.
But at least they're still considering sport tourers.
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Re: New BMW sports tourer
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2018, 10:48:06 am »
I think, having seen the results of and subsequent conversations about, David's What Next? research, BMW's definition of the Sports part of the term Sports-Tourer may differ slightly from that of most of our membership  8)
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Re: New BMW sports tourer
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2018, 10:48:53 am »
I spotted it yesterday on MCN as you say just a tiddler.
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Re: New BMW sports tourer
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2018, 12:15:32 pm »
You got my interest there for a few seconds Rich, but a middle weight sports tourer doesn't really count! :D
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