Initially Posted by rocinante

Yet another factor. I can afford any bike I actually need, and I don’t need a water cooled boxer. Simply NO. They could outperform their air-cooled uncles and I do not care. A water-cooled boxer is simply improper. For me. I believe I desire a camhead 1200.

There is a critical distinction in urgency. When you’re searching for a prepared sporting companion, not one of the generations sooner than the water boxers will ship that. My /2 is 30hp. It is a truck. My 84R100 is best, but it surely’s solely making 60 one thing hp on an excellent day and with a giant flywheel, it is not a giant fan of getting spun up rapidly. My hexhead is best, however nonetheless performs alongside solely grudgingly.

My water boxer, nonetheless, is like my automotive and my Honda or how my Ducati 916 was. It is always saying “DO IT” and has a type of urgency that is by no means been a part of the character of BMW boxers.

Sure, it is water cooled, but it surely lastly delivers the products and is a prepared sporting companion. Been driving BMW since 1978 and it is a boxer, but it surely’s shed that stodgy energy bands and reluctant revving of older bikes.

If you need efficiency, you desire a water boxer. When you additionally need aids to maintain you out of the ditch, you desire a water boxer. I am turning 65 in a pair months and I do know and understand that I am not the rider I used to be even 10 years in the past, so I purchased a GS with all that stuff to assist hold me out of the weeds.

Your name, however know that the character of a motor is essential to plenty of us and it is likely to be to you. When you’ve not hung out on boxers, it is easy to imagine that like a Porsche all of them type of have the identical type of urgency and willingness to work. They significantly do not. Airheads are nice and I am going to all the time have one, however they’re the fruits of Nineteen Sixties expertise that was outdated even when launched. Oilheads and hexheads had been higher, however nonetheless behind the occasions.