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11 Ways to Own This Riding Season This is the best time of the year to ride, and BMW Financial Services wants to enhance your riding season with great offers on 11 new bikes from BMW.
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Press Release The 2009 Superbike World Championship promises to be more exciting than ever, with BMW Motorrad Motorsport making its debut in the ultra-competitive...

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  • Touring Sport Ducshop Ducati finishes in first place Touring Sport Ducshop Ducati finished in first place in the Suntrust Moto-GT endurance race at Road America, crossing the finish line first overall and first in class, strengthening their championship...
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11 Ways to Own This Riding Season

This is the best time of the year to ride, and BMW Financial Services wants to enhance your riding season with great offers on 11 new bikes from BMW.

BMW Financial Services is financing motorcycles - just like before! Regardless of what you may have heard in the news about the banking crisis, BMW has outstanding interest rates that won’t insult savvy buyers, as well as the willingness to finance motorcycles at competitive rates and fixed terms up to 60 months.

Add to that, the 2009 Sales Tax Deduction! The national stimulus bill provides a provision for motorcycle buyers to deduct sales taxes on their personal income tax returns for 2009.

From July 1st until July 31st, we are offering two unique opportunities to ride eight select BMW motorcycles. In addition we are including special offers on 3 more models.

Here are 11 ways to own this riding season.


0.9% to 5.9% or Free Accessories/Apparel


Two ways to save on eight select BMW bikes: 1) 0.9 to 5.9% financing when bike is purchased through BMW Financial Services*, or 2) get a variety of BMW accessories up to the value shown on the motorcycles below.

G 450 X
2.9% (36 months), 3.9% (48 months), 4.9% (60 months) OR $500 Free BMW Accessories / Apparel

G 650 Xcountry
0.9% (48 months), 1.9% (60 months) OR $1,500 Free BMW Accessories / Apparel

G 650 GS
3.9% (36 months), 4.9% (48 months), 5.9% (60 months) OR $400 Free BMW Accessories / Apparel

F 800 ST
3.9% (36 months), 4.9% (48 months), 5.9% (60 months) OR $600 Free BMW Accessories / Apparel

R 1200 GS
3.9% (36 months), 4.9% (48 months), 5.9% (60 months) OR $750 Free BMW Accessories / Apparel

R 1200 GS Adventure
3.9% (36 months), 4.9% (48 months), 5.9% (60 months) OR $1,000 Free BMW Accessories / Apparel

K 1300 S
3.9% (36 months), 4.9% (48 months), 5.9% (60 months) OR $750 Free BMW Accessories / Apparel

K 1300 GT
3.9% (36 months), 4.9% (48 months), 5.9% (60 months) OR $1,000 Free BMW Accessories / Apparel


Free BMW Cases or Voice II


For the month of July we’re also offering free BMW side or top cases, with matching keys, or free BMW VOICE intercom system on the three bikes mentioned below. Equipment will be supplied by BMW and fitted free of charge by the supplying dealer after delivery.

R 1200 R
Free Side Cases and Key Cylinders Matching to Ignition
7 720 287 Left Side Case
7 720 288 Right Side Case
7 698 209 Key Cylinder

R 1200 RT
Free Top Case (color determined by BMW) and Key Cylinder Matching to Ignition
7 720 503 Top Case (Black)
Or
7 720 456 Top Case (Silver)
7 698 204 Key Cylinder

K 1200 LT
Free BMW VOICE intercom system.
7 691 303: VOICE II


* Financing from BMW Financial Services subject to credit approval. Maximum contract term is 60 months. Contract must be signed by July 31, 2009.

Last Updated on Thursday, 02 July 2009 13:48
 
Alaska Adventure

Don Taylor (works at Touringsport BMW in the parts dept.) and a customer, Howard, touring to Alaska on their BMW GS's. To view more photos of their trip please click on the link.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/htimberlake/

 

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 11:26
 
BMW S 1000RR Superbike

 


Press Release

The 2009 Superbike World Championship promises to be more exciting than ever, with BMW Motorrad Motorsport making its debut in the ultra-competitive series and taking on no less than six other manufacturers, four Japanese and two European. Although this is BMW’s first attempt in World Superbikes, their racing heritage goes back 86 years, starting with their R 32 motorcycle in 1923. Since then BMWs have raced successfully on the Isle of Man and at other world-famous racetracks and have enjoyed many successes. The last success of the official BMW factory team was Walter Zeller’s runner-up place in the 1956 World Championship. BMW officially returned to roadracing in 2007 with the HP2 Sports Boxer taking part in the Endurance Championship 24 hour classics in 2007 and 2008.

BMW’s first ever ’Superbike’ success took place at Daytona, USA, in 1976, when American Steve McLaughlin won the AMA Championship Superbike race in a thrilling photo-finish with team-mate Reg Pridmore. Both were riding R 90 S BMWs prepared by Butler & Smith, BMW’s American importers. Back then the ‘Superbike’ class was a support race to the main event, but nine years later the first ideas for a Superbike World Championship (a world championship for production-based motorcycles) began to grow. The series was born in 1988 and since then has become the hallmark for close-fought, competitive racing, without sacrificing any of its friendly paddock atmosphere. It may be all-out combat on the track, but off it, it has an atmosphere unmatched by any other world championship.

Developing the S 1000 RR, BMW Motorrad has entered completely new, unchartered terrain. Clearly, this meant a huge range of new challenges and responsibilities for the entire Development Team, but also gave the Team enormous motivation in seeking to set new standards..

PDF Press Release link

Last Updated on Monday, 29 June 2009 11:55
 

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  ALL NEW FLY BY WIRE APRILIA SHIVER 750 LANDS AT DEALERS TODAY
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It is certainly no easy matter to take the lead in a class as fiercely competitive as the middleweight naked class.  A class where the battle is not just about technology and performance, but also design, component rationality and riding ease and pleasure, elements which are not always compatible and are particularly demanding for designers and engineers.

 

Aprilia accepted this challenge and addressed it by applying its own successful philosophy to a completely new design, destined to set new standards for years to come.  A bike both strongly aggressive and at the same time clean-cut and elegant, in perfect Aprilia style.  A bike at the top of its class for its sporty personality, designed on the basis of the know-how of a company which has to date won 250 world championship victories.

 

Key features of the new Shiver include:

·          Racing brakes with radial mounted caliper at front

·          90° V2 engine with four valves per cylinder, double overhead camshaft and liquid cooling

·          Ride-by-Wire technology for electronic control of the throttle bodies

·          Electronic fuel injection with latest generation injectors

·          Mixed gear and chain valve timing

·          Three way catalytic converter on the exhaust, with Lambda oxygen sensor

·          Modular trellis/aluminium frame for high torsional rigidity

·          Aluminium swingarm with reinforcement truss and lateral shock absorber

·          43 mm upside down fork

  




For more detailed information about the SL 750 Shiver go here.

Daytona 200, March 6th 2009

TOURING SPORT DUCATI TAKES SECOND AT DAYTONA!

Reining champions Touring Sport Ducati had a great start to the 2009 season, securing a second place finish in the SunTrust MotoGT race run at Daytona
International Speedway this past weekend. The two man team fought hard against the Pair-of-Nine Kawasaki finishing with less than a minute gap in
the two-hour race, putting them on the podium. This year’s series will be run in conjunction with select AMA Superbike rounds, bringing in even stiffer competition and higher stakes than previous years.

The team started the race on pole after team owner, Frank Shockley, secured  the fastest time in a crafty double-draft maneuver on the last lap of qualifying. Shockley took the first 50 minute stint aboard the Ducati PS1000LE, racing handle bar to handle bar with Jay Springsteen’s Kawasaki 650R Ninja the whole time. The rivaling riders pitted a lap apart when Shockley swapped with team mate Brad Phillips. A lightening fast pitstop saw the Kawasaki return to the race in the lead, which they held to the end. 

“Once they’d got a gap on us we just couldn’t get it back”’ said Shockley after the race. “It’s going to be a hard year this year with the tougher competition and the grueling schedule but we aim to take our third consecutive championship and this result stands us in good stead”.

 

Next race will be at the team’s back yard at Road Atlanta on April 5, 2009,  where they are planning to run two teams on identical bikes.

Ducshop proudly builds and maintains the PS1000LE engines. The team is also  sponsored by Touring Sport Ducati, Öhlins USA, Speedy Moto, Robby Byrd,
USDESMO, Swatt Motorcycle, JVE Limited and Pilot Leathers.

Picture courtesy of MotoGT

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The New 2009 BMW K 1300 S, K 1300 R and K 1300 GT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exactly 25 years after the launch of the groundbreaking K bikes, BMW has unveiled the newest generation of this line of powerful inline-four machines. The new K bikes sport a larger displacement, now with 1,293 cc, and an array of new enhancements and features. The 2009 K 1300 S, the most powerful street legal BMW, now offers 175 hp and the torque has been bumped by 7.5 ft-lb to a very impressive 103 ft-lb at 8250 rpm.

“We have sold almost 65,000 four-cylinder motorcycles in the past four years,” said Hendrik von Kuenheim, the President of BMW Motorrad at the K1300’s press launch at INTERMOT in Germany. “Now the time has come to give this attractive model series a new and powerful impulse. I use the term ‘new’ K Series on purpose because we have conducted profound changes both with regards to the technology and visual appearance. Our aim was to significantly improve the three models in terms of performance, handling, dynamics, visual appeal and quality.”