Initially Posted by OldCamper

in the end somebody apart from BMW will construct one other mid-size boxer twin, and sure at low value.

I sincerely doubt it. Motorbike producers have found out {that a} parallel-twin with a 720-degree firing order produces related traits to and is far cheaper to make than a boxer twin. Only a few bikes are being made air-cooled now or being engineered for person upkeep and people are the 2 greatest advantages of a standard boxer twin. No firm will be capable of make a boxer at a worth aggressive to one thing like a Royal Enfield as a result of a boxer engine prices a fortune to make relative to different engine layouts and the advantages merely do not outweigh the elevated value.

Honda solely makes the boxer-six on one in every of their highest-profit-margin fashions, whose MSRP is kind of excessive. The one firm that is not BMW nonetheless plugging together with boxer twins is Ural and obsolescence (“heritage”) is a part of their model. They do not even promote something with two wheels and none of their fashions are low cost.

If BMW thought there was a market for an inexpensive mid-size boxer twin they most likely would nonetheless be making one — and so they as soon as did with the R850R. It offered so badly right here in the US that they stopped importing it after simply 2 mannequin years, however they saved making it in Europe till 2009. The 850 fashions had been offered as an entire household over there with a GS, an RT, and even a C mannequin. However they did not preserve making a midsize when Oilheads grew to become Hexheads and Camheads and Wetheads.
Conversely, look what they’re now promoting loads of: a big 1800cc air-cooled boxer twin mannequin that is aimed proper on the American market and Harley-Davidson. That is what the individuals who purchase bikes right here need. Harley nonetheless owns one thing like 40 p.c of the motorbike market within the US.