R1150RS replacement R1200ST photo.

[cat0020]

This is what's to come?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/cat0020/BMW_R1200ST_ac1mz.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/cat0020/BMW_R1200ST_st2mz.jpg

[RTRandy]

What's with the headlight ?

[kbasa]

I like it. That thing looks like no other bike, though that headlight reminds me a little of the 950 KTMs.

[gambrinus]

Very cool looking bike... I still want a GS, but sure wouldn't complain about one of those showing up in the garage.

RW

[Rad]

I think the ST will be my next BMW....When I have the $ for it. Ya, looks like I will be on my 1150 GS for a long time :D

As for the head light. Not wild about it, but it is not a show stopper.

I like this so much more than the 1200S. The 1200S is damn pretty but it just has way more power than I could ever use out in the real world. I have a feel'n the ST will be a great sport tour'n bike just like my R1100RS was. :thumb

[RebeccaV]

Why are they starting an ST line and not just continuing the RS line? This looks like it should be a 1200RS.

The headlight looks like a KTM ripoff. It's weird - it goes halfway up the windscreen.

[knary]

I like this so much more than the 1200S. The 1200S is damn pretty but it just has way more power than I could ever use out in the real world.

More power than you could ever use or you know that you'd keep trying to use it despite your better judgment? :D

[Visian]

There is no such thing as too much power! :burnout

Ian

That headlight can't be for real. It looks like a huge wanking zit in the middle of an otherwise perfect face!

[dbrick]

I've been looking forward to a sport touring 1200. I like the new mechanicals, and in a year or two I think I'll be ready for a change. I can accept (without really liking) the angular bodywork, but the headlight treatment has me worried.

I like it when my emotional button gets pushed. I remember seeing the first press kit pic of a K75S, a little black and white photo in some bike mag. I turned the page, saw the pic, and instantly thought "I will have one of *those*! Had it for nine years, and liked it a lot. Sometimes I'd just go out to the garage and look at it. (Never got to making vroom-vroom noises, 'tho.)

I wasn't struck in the same way at first by the R1100RS, but it's grown into the same respect and affection. After seven years, I lift the garage door and smile.

I'd like to do the same next time. The jury's still out. I look forward to seeing it in person.

[dbrick]

Perhaps one could graft an R1200RT lights-and-windscreen assembly onto an R1200ST.

[username]

that's not a headlight.

astute star trek fans will recognize it as the main deflector. it can be configured with a rotating frequency tachyon pulse that will detect sub-space anamolies such as wormholes, time rifts, and deer.

[BradfordBenn]

You see BMW can style a bike when they want to. Something to consider. But Jennifer has said the next bike is a LT or dare I say Goldwing :stick so she can luxiriate on the back. :thumb

[Rad]

More power than you could ever use or you know that you'd keep trying to use it despite your better judgment? :D

How true :D

One thing I have learned in over 35 years of ride'n is that I still lack impulse control when it comes to the go juice.

For me, right around 100 HP is just about perfect. It is not so much that it makes me wanna whack the go stick every chance I get but it is enough to let me cruise and pass with ease. :thumb

My S let me see the other side of 140MPH in the Panamint Valley and it would do 0-60 in under 3 seconds….That’s as much or more than I ever need?

:twirl

[RTRandy]

BMW is a lot of things, but one of them is not stupid.

Think about it, they flashed their K1200R at the Intermot long enough for the press to get some good shots and wisked it away just as fast. Now it's in every bike magazine with a lot of hype at the moment. The new cockeyed headlight system looks cutting edge compaired to all the Japanese influance. Surely BMW didn't take their new secret prototype out for a spin thinking no one would notice.

Typically these riding down the street prototypes have features deliberatly distorted from the actual designs for "spy" photos like these. Their new K1200S sport bike has a conventional sport bike headlight. Surely BMW didn't have some mind lapse and put a light on the front looking like a window from the Vatican.

Time will tell if I'm right, but my guess is that model shown is close, but no cigar :evil

[cat0020]

Typically these riding down the street prototypes have features deliberatly distorted from the actual designs for "spy" photos like these. Their new K1200S sport bike has a conventional sport bike headlight.

The first picture:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/cat0020/BMW_R1200ST_ac1mz.jpg

Looks like a poster advertisement for magazines.. I doubt very much that is a prototype and the looks of the actual production model would deviate much from the poster. The headlight really looks like a "gem" in those computer puzzle games.. personally, I would much prefer the old R1100S cyclob headlight or a KTM Duke..
http://www.britnett.net/adrenalinmoto/listings/43.jpg

http://www.whaccessories.com/HesaFairingTyp6.jpg

[j-budimlya]

How about the weight of these puppies and if the front light is a big improvement over the old....then the look is OK with me......

I will settle for lighter, faster, brighter........ :wow

[Rad]

How about the weight of these puppies and if the front light is a big improvement over the old....then the look is OK with me......

I will settle for lighter, faster, brighter........ :wow

Here is a link to the story

R1200ST and RT (http://www.moto-station.com/article910.html)

Looks like some good weight reduction, like with the 1200GS


R1200ST 215 kg, 473.9 lbs

R1150RS 515lbs, as per BMW

[knary]

I just figure the styling of the ST out.

http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/images/machine/f650cs/bike/base_titan_silver_metallic.jpg

+

http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/images/machine/k1200rs/bike/base_capri_blue_metallic.jpg

=

http://www.moto-station.com/ttesimages/motodivers/nouveautes2005/BMW_R1200ST_st1mz.jpg

[j-budimlya]

BMW R 1200 ST: Road sporting for spring! One still rather badly sees it on these first documents, but nevertheless the "nez" is guessed; very original even dared, with its double optics vertical positioned very high (it should be effective) and invading this time l'espace reserved for the bubble of the careenage, or its two entries to d'air towards the radiators d'huile and/or the air box. General L'esthétique of this road sporting is with l'avenant, with in particular a mixture of curved and broken lines, a reduced back. Side left cycle, l'engin s'inspire very narrowly of last the R 1200 GS, with its axis of oscillating arm maintained by the framework and either only by the engine. Here are which should reinforce the rigidity of l'ensemble, d'autant with a weight announced to 204 kg dry and 237 kg all full facts. The engineers thus used here all the technical lesson drawn from the design of the R 1200 GS. The R 1200 ST s'annonce thus definitely lighter than the R 1150 RS (215 kg dry, 250 kg with the full ones) whereas l'adoption of the twin-cylinder flat derived from the R 1200 GS would carry its power to 110 CH for a maximum couple of 11,7 daN.m. For the remainder, the manufacturer remains here faithful to l'architecture of his famous Flat Twin, with inter alia the fork Telelever, the mono-shock absorber postpones and the suspension will monobras, transmission shafting and Cardan joints, integral braking ABS. The setback of the pilot saddle lets forecast an adjustable height d'assise.

[j-budimlya]

BMW R 1200 RT: More nerve for the duet the make-up of l'habillage of the RT surprised in rolling d'essai hid a good share of their line. These last photographs reveal finally a more tempting anatomy undoubtedly informing beautiful l ergonomy! The bubble and the saddle should thus offer various height adjustments once again, whereas the bags seem integrated better that in the past, with with the key less catch with the wind and a better handiness downtown. The carry-packages is rather generous. The RT and ST divide l'essentiel of their architecture. The RT should thus convince our "maxitesteurs" some reproached him a too timid power in duet charged. The R 1200 RT announces this time 110 CH for a couple of 11,7 daN.m. Its weight would evolve/move there still in the good direction, since our advisor fixes it at 229 kg dry, 260 kg with the full ones, against 279 kg for the R 1150 RT! Side equipment and options, the R 1200 RT would propose a reader CD, a computer of edge, a saddle and handles heating, the tempomat (?) and l'incontournable integral braking ABS.

[j-budimlya]

And a R 1200 S for 2006! With regard to l'arrivée of these innovations on the market, the RT should be presented in beginning d'année 2005 (January probably) and ST a little before Easter (in April). With K 1200 R revealed a few weeks ago over ms, here are which thus changes to three innovations BMW 2005, which forecasts one year exceptional for the German mark. Because the RT appears among its best sales and it is clear that many customers await the new version impatiently. The sportsmen will be also spoiled by the mark in 2005, thanks to the R 1200 ST, K 1200 RS and K 1200 S, then qu'on already speaks for 2006 about l'arrivée about the R 1200 S... Wunderbar! Thank you with our anonymous advisor for his marvellous indiscretions

[YB in IN]

Here is a link to the story

R1200ST and RT (http://www.moto-station.com/article910.html)

Looks like some good weight reduction, like with the 1200GS


R1200ST 215 kg, 473.9 lbs

R1150RS 250 kg, 551 lbs


I'm liking the look of that RT a lot as well, but what's up with those bags? They look straight off of an early 90's K bike or something.

[Rad]

I'm liking the look of that RT a lot as well, but what's up with those bags? They look straight off of an early 90's K bike or something.

I think my French is bad; I dropped the last numbers 'cause that was for a full of gas ST, not an RS....my bad :brow

The RS is 515 lbs

[lorazepam]

Look at this and tell me if they are similar.

[fish]

Look at this and tell me if they are similar.

Not similar.