21/08/2015

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https://eatsleepride.com/c/109944/s1000xr_bmws_new_naked_2015_adventure_sport_or_race_bike

Un avis juste sur la selle que je partage ainsi que sur la selle HP

Unfortunately, the seat is as hard as a plank. An optional seat is offered, but it too is thin as a bread crust. Seriously BMW, we have to pay extra for a seat that is good for 100 kilometres in something that has at least some pretence to comfort and it’s still the size of a postage stamp?



Quelques commentaires sur les suspensions dures et les vibrations

But they might be best deemed “rock” and the “hard place” so firm is the compression damping. The S1000’s big four also vibrates. It’s not objectionable as long as you keep the revs below 5,000 rpm — around 120 kilometres an hour — but above that the handlebar gets decidedly tingly. Do not be fooled by sit-up-and-beg riding position nor the accessory saddlebags on offer; anyone looking for GS or even Aprilia Caponord comfort is going to be disappointed.


et le vrai visage de la XR

But, if it can’t tour and can’t “adventure,” what good is the S1000XR? Well, what the S1000XR really is a naked bike — like BMW’s own S1000RR, itself just an offshoot of the world-beating S1000RR superbike — with better fairing protection and an even more expansive seating position. BMW is even trying to create yet another segmentation of the motorcycle market calling the XR an “Adventure Sport” bike.

That makes it damned near perfect for all those superbike riders whose favourite twisty road is an hour of more from their city centres. A S1000RR, for instance, may be sublime on a twisty road but the two-hour drone getting there might cripple you.


Throttle response is immediate and exact and, very importantly when you have this much power under wrist, the ASC traction control is sophisticated so all that power doesn’t get you in trouble.

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