Son #1 was playing football a couple of minutes away from Pidcock BMW this morning so nipped in to have a look at the '17RR's. Love the grey and white scheme, looks v smart with non pinstriped gloss black wheels - quite hard to tell the difference at a glance from the HP wheels on an adjacent bike which also look to have a gloss finish now. The metallic black pillion set cover on the grey and white/red/black bikes doesn't look quite right though, think I'd go with the pillion seat. Not liking the side reflectors all new bikes have now, happily they're located on the front guard of the Sthou so I think there will be a roaring trade in carbon replacements...
'17RR aesthetics
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Since looking at Baron VG's grey I do like the colour scheme!
That belly pan removal to see the new cat is a bit hit and miss.
Think I'll have to pop into Bowkers this week to admire the schemes, red and white with a grey in.
For Euro 4 and other EU regs they had to have additional side reflectors, a bigger cat...I think that's it for external changes, other than the paint.
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I'm picking up my motorsport on the 25th and the cat is monstrous
Best not to look at it, you won't see it when you're riding it! It could be worse, I've booked myself a test ride on a new GSXR1000, not because I want one, just interested to see how it compares to my Beemer, the exhaust on that looks like a dustbin - mind you the bike as a whole isn't going to win any beauty contests :disgust:
Funny you should say that as I asked a couple of weeks ago but while the first customer bikes are coming in before the end of Feb my local dealer is a bit jarred off as they have no idea when they'll get any new blades into stock - rest assured I'll blag a go as soon as they do 
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Totally with you on the black seat cowl.....looks odd...in fact im not convinced about any of the black parts of the bike??.....i've got my grey/black 17 landing next week and i'm gonna replace all the black panels with carbon
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Looks similar but i believe there's quite a few tweaks under the hood...mainly Euro 4 stuff but also things like a new alternator with higher output to hopefully address the multitude of electrical gremlins on the '15!
I also notice theres a revised torque curve with max torque lower in the rev range and unfortunately the new bike used more fuel! Which seems odd considering Euro 4 is supposed to be greener??
I also notice theres a revised torque curve with max torque lower in the rev range and unfortunately the new bike used more fuel! Which seems odd considering Euro 4 is supposed to be greener??
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I tried to get a test ride but my local dealer doesn't have any S1000RR available for test rides until they can send the '17 models out in a week or do. Bummer - was hoping to order tomorrow. Oh well another few days wont kill me.
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I had the opportunity to hear the new '17 start up at my dealer yesterday and interestingly the engine sounds much quieter than previous models....more "Japanese" much smoother with none of that cam clattering/ticking we've come to expect from the RR
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Not sure if that's a good or bad thing?
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The 17 bikes clothes removed.
How much effort was it to get the sides off? I've been told it's not much but...
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