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Hi mr moto,
Have just noticed the amount of pics all over the web, and your link has got them all!
ps This may be the Adv model - bumblebee colours look OK IMO.
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Just when I thought Yamaha had answered my Prayers for a great Bike, with the new Tenere, BMW come along with the new GS. 2008 looks like its gona be a great Bike year. Viva Le Dakar
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Hi mr moto,
Have just noticed the amount of pics all over the web, and your link has got them all!
ps This may be the Adv model - bumblebee colours look OK IMO.
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Hi Walkabout, I like it,but not the cost of ownership though  ...looks like a modern kle?? yeh rite  I think the new yam tenere may have the edge ....
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looks good to me
read about it in MCN and i think the 800gs might be my next toy.i dig the looks,simplicity and lightness of the bike. will be having a butchers at it in the N.E.C in 2 wks time. the 1200 has although being a great bike is vastly overpriced (out of my range)! my AT though has only 18,000 on the clock at moment so it will give BMW time to iron out the teething problems (which every new bike has) before i need to change my much beloved. shame honda aint brought out a new toy.  .
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Hi Walkabout, I like it,but not the cost of ownership though  ...looks like a modern kle?? yeh rite  I think the new yam tenere may have the edge ....
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Know what you are saying! I visited the NEC bike show last Sunday and spent an amount of time looking at various bikes.
Mollydog has made a lot of accurate comments about the 800GS; the seat is very narrow at the front and it is easy to touch down both feet on the ground, but the one on show that could be sat on was fitted with the lowered seat option - this was the black and yellow coloured one. The metallic grey one, fitted with luggage, was up on a stand and not for sitting on!!
Loads of public "hanging around" the Beemer stand - they have a vast range of bikes nowadays of course.
The Tenere: not many people showing anything like the same interest here. Looks OK overall, but the luggage appears to be cheap - certainly plastic. The boxes were locked so I could not see inside them.
Yam sales staff on the stand reckon you will be able to get one for £4900; don't quote me on this, if it turns out different. There is another thread on here about the Tenere, so enough said.
For the Yam stand I ended up taking another long hard look at the TDM; it is a lot of bike for the money and it is a twin cyl of course turning out about the same power as the 800GS!!
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