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Looks nice. I'm trying to figure out the improvements though, (over the old F650 single/Dakar, and G650?)
I agree, the front fender is useless as it is. Why BMW insists on these stubby front fenders (all the way back to my 94 R1100RS) is beyond me. Maybe BMW feels that all manner of road crap slung directly onto the hot engine is just fine.
Maybe it's the price of gas in Europe, but this trend of reducing fuel tank capacity is keeping me from considering a lot of the new bikes.
Once again BMW has gone for form rather than function with the very short front fender. Can't see the point of that....
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Perhaps the members of the design department have an ownership stake in Touratech?
Alloy wheels suprised me too, AK. They are so hard to relace and true after a thumping.
I don't like late 19th century/early 20th century technology
I'll comment on the alloy wheels issue. One morning a couple years ago, beside the road near Chicken, Alaska, as I was replacing the punctured tube in the rear wheel of my travel-loaded F650 Funduro, I declared to Voni, God, and the world that I would never again buy a bike with tube-type tires (tyres for some of you) that had to be removed to repair. I don't like late 19th century/early 20th century technology. (Michelin, 1895; Strauss, 1911)
When BMW came out with the F800GS twin and F650GSreallyan800butwecallit650 twin I was almost ready checkbook in hand to buy an F800GS but didn't because of those silly spoked wheels and tube-type tires. On that issue alone if I do decide to buy one of these it will be the one called the 650 due to alloy wheels and tubeless tires.
I do understand that this will somewhat limit the bike's ability to be ridden off cliffs or through pot holes in Cleveland or New York City but I generally avoid doing that anyway.
Alloy wheels suprised me too, AK. They are so hard to relace and true after a thumping.