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Cruisers, blech!! Posted by Mike Lynch [Email] (#81) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Mike Lynch) on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:42:21 In Reply to: Not very tall..., Johnson [Profile/Gallery] , Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:57:27 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
BMW made some really cool cruisers from 1997 to 2004, the R1200C line. Kind of an oxymoron, a BMW cruiser. Who can forget Pierce Brosnan and Wai Lin riding the first R1200C in the 1997 James Bond Movie Tomorrow Never Dies handcuffed together jumping rooftops pursued by Carver's black helicopter.
Oilheads, hexheads, and now the R1200C's are referred to as "Chromeheads" as they all came with chrome valve covers. Anyway BMW discontinued them, 2004 was the last year and now they're relatively collectible and have made a comeback of sorts, not shunned by BMW dealers as when the were a current model.
Some at BMW say the demise of the chromeheads was due to the realization that the foot forward riding position is inherently unsafe and because the were sorta' shunned by stodgy BMW dealers, so sales were never very good.
Though 1200's, the R1200C's where the older oilhead tech, and not the newer 1200 hexhead. They had seriously low 9.0-1 compression to make 'em lug like a cruiser and only 61hp vs the 85-90hp of the oilheads and the 110hp of the hexheads with 12.0-1 compression.
Cruisers in general are heavy, slow, drag lotsa' parts in the twisties, and not particularly comfortable. They're all Harley's or wannabee' Harleys and are retro expressions of 1930's motorcycle technology. Blech!!
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