E30 Zone

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 1:11 pm**

right its a long shot but whos in to bikes here as i need a bit of help,i want to get hold of a nice sport looking bike needs to be a bmw and cheap,not worryed what state its in as i am thinking of a project to do but have no clue on bikes
thanks

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 2:18 pm**

I know of a few around my side mate. Cheap too. Just stick a BMW badge and hey presto

Saying that i think they'll soon take it off and stick the Ford badge back on

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 2:51 pm**

placey.. moofles are 2 i can think of.. placey jus bought a bmw bike infact

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 4:17 pm**

BMW R850R 850cc

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 5:24 pm**

just build your own

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 5:31 pm**

BMW K1

an early attempt at a sports bike
from the same sort of era as an e30 too

very street hawk looking

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 8:02 pm**

Sorry, they didn't really make any sports bikes that were worth a toss. The Funduro can be a good laugh, semi off road super motard stylee, but still fairly fresh so not something to buy just to pull to bits. If you want something to go quick and cheap look to the East . Just my opinion obviously

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 8:42 pm**

get yourself a nice K75 that's not too far gone and fettle it until it makes you happy.

Don't be afraid of high mileage on them either.

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 10:27 pm**

thanks for input what about the k1200 any good,the think is i dont care what engine it just has to have a nice shape

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2006 11:28 pm**

get a gsxr 1000 my m8s just bought one bloody unreal! it does 0-60 in 2.6 seconds and 0 - 100 in 3.2 seconds! i wouldnt dare get on it but heres a idea itll do 196 mph and hes done 182 mph on it on his very own private runway!! lol i would also agree bmws thing is definatly cars! if you want a nice smart fast sporty bike then its not a bmw sorry!

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2006 9:14 am**

Come on!!!! Tell us what you are going to do with it!!!!

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2006 9:35 pm**

He's gonna make a trike!

BMW do make sports bikes - they just don't do road legal race bikes.

If you want a laugh just watch a guy on a BMW GS out-corner some psuedo racetrack organ-donor on their GSXRRRXRKK on a roundabout. They go mental pulling wheelies & what have you as the pass the GS again. Meantime, the GS guy is laughing so hard he nearly falls off.

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2006 9:59 pm**

bmw do make sports bikes worth a toss in fact. what a rider has to do is overcome the japanese high revs/brake horsepower figure is all mentality to see it. there's more than one way to skin a cat...

k1200s

a mentalist machine that will devour huge distances in relative comfort and then eat many jap bikes for breakfast round a track.

k1200r

as above without the plastic buttoned to it. both bikes have a reputation for agricultural gearboxes but you name a bike that doesn't have something dodgy about it...

r1150r

a flat barred naked bike with the same amount of grunt as the yamaha r1 - just delivered earlier in the rev range and for longer. sports geometry and suspension with bmw all day comfort.

i've ridden japanese sports bikes and beemers and made my choice. if you want to ride around with your bodyweight through your wrists, arse in the air, legs tucked up underneath you and neck straining to keep your eyes looking forward then that's your choice. not for me.

paul

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2006 10:05 pm**

i'm afraid the words 'nice' 'sporty' and 'cheap' dont really sit well together dips you might try and go for an insurance right off that has only cosmetic damage as i presume you are going to rebuild it anyway
(no you wont get a V12 into one)

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2006 11:15 pm**

bigkev wrote:i'm afraid the words 'nice' 'sporty' and 'cheap' dont really sit well together dips you might try and go for an insurance right off that has only cosmetic damage as i presume you are going to rebuild it anyway
(no you wont get a V12 into one)

what to bet !!v12 twin turbo trike hmmmmm

Posted: **Sun May 14, 2006 9:35 pm**

Ok, poor choice of words so apologies if I've upset anybodies sensitivities. I guess I should have asked for your definition of "sports" first, I was thinking "racetrack", which may not be relevant for what you are after. BMW don't make sports bikes worth a toss that you can ride out of the showroom, fit race fairings and win club races with at the weekend.

Not sure that you can actually buy race fairings easily off the shelf, which probably says it all. And I'm not sure what kind of budget you meant by cheap, but a couple of grand will buy you more Jap sports than BMW sports, worthy though the bikes above are. Ah bugger this BM v jap, lets pick on Italian bikes, the common enemy

Posted: **Sun May 14, 2006 10:53 pm**

i don't really know much about bikes yet i'm afraid

but i do know that bmw's are generally more expensive, however i see your reasons for needing one (if it's becoming a bmw trike!)

p.s. i have a jap bike so i can't talk about the comfort argument

Posted: **Mon May 15, 2006 9:05 am**

I thought the R1100S was the 'sportiest' bike BMW make - didn't it have its own race series for a while? Not exacetly cheap though - none for less than Ã‚£2.5k I wouldn't have thought.

I used to have an R1150GS and it was ok and handled well, but it corroded badly (yes I did wash it occasionally) Since then I've had jap bikes but currently have a triumph.

Good luck in your search!