New BMW

[noggythenog]

Looks like they're all doing it

http://www.yamaha-motor.eu/eu/products/m...stechspecs

Who cares if they all look the same ish.....i think this will be a good bike.............but my question is........will you be trading in your MT09 to get one of these instead Locksmith?..........im only being selfish coz if that happens then ill have nore chance of a 2nd hand 09 8)

[nick crisp]

Can't say I like any of em. Think I'll join Christo in the 80s/90s corner 

[lew600fazer]

[quote author=lew600fazer link=topic=15215.msg172724#msg172724 date=1415275554]

Anyway the post was about the BMW look alike Fazer not some Chinese copy of something else, because Simon that is all the Chinese do is COPY and us poor quality materails, how cold does it get in Vietnam/Thailand, bet there is not a lot of salt on the roads out there.

Pardon me, but the japanese based their whole motorcycle industry on COPYING the British machines, if you don't like people copying other manufacturers then perhaps out of principle you should stop riding your Fazer.  :lol
Most parts of the motorcycle you'll be riding in 10 years time will be made in China, so i guess you'll have to get used to it.
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Simon, bold statement back it up with facts.

I hope you are right that in 10 years time I will be riding a motorcycle, I am 66 now.

[lew600fazer]

In the 1950s Meguro entered racing and built its first twin cylindered design, the 651 cc (39.7 cu in) T1 "Senior" with a pre-unit parallel twin engine inspired by British practice and later the K-series "Stamina" model copied from the BSA A7, one of which Meguro had bought in 1953. Its quality and engineering was superior to the BSA[sup][3][/sup] and it was described by Edward Turner, one of Britain’s most talented motorcycle designers, as "too good to be true".[citation needed] For the first time, the Japanese motorcycle industry was seen as a threat.[sup][4][/sup] Its other models designed in collaboration with Kawasaki were entirely of Japanese design.
 
    Meguro raced the 500 cc overhead camshaft single cylinder model at the Asama Kazan speedway circuit in Tsumagoi, Gunma Prefecture.[sup][5][/sup] For many years, the company was only outsold by Honda.

[sup]The only bike I would say looks like a copy of a British bike is the Paralell twin Kawasaki which is similar to a Triumph Bonnie.[/sup]

[sup]One of the most sucessful Britsh bikes of all time was the BSA Bantam. A design stolen from the German company DKM ? DKW[/sup]

[Deefer666]

Can't say I like any of em. Think I'll join Christo in the 80s/90s corner 

That'll be the 3 of us in the corner then

[cable tie]

Anyway the post was about the BMW look alike Fazer not some Chinese copy

BMW now source 70% of manufacturing from china and clothing comes from Malaysia now.