Not for me, but wow!

I went over to the BMW dealer’s yesterday to meet my friends Marty and Dennis for lunch, and (I thought) to see the new 310cc BMW.  Alas, it was not to be…the sales guy told me the new small BMW hasn’t made it to the showrooms yet.   Ah, well, I was only going to be a looky-loo anyway, and then I spotted this stunning boxer twin…

It was stunning, it felt incredibly heavy, the ergos were terrible for this old boy, it was over $15K (which is actually kind of cheap for a new BMW), but boy oh boy, it sure was beautiful.  In another life I would have pulled out my checkbook and bought it on the spot.   That’s been known to happen, but it didn’t happen yesterday.  I sure was tempted, though.   My compliments to BMW…that boxer twin is stunning!

I guess the BMW is a cafe cacer of some sort, and that headlight fairing works for me in a retro sort of way.  When I was a teenager, the concept of a bike with a fairing was new and appealing.   One of the James Bond movies back then (Thunderball; I just found it on the Internet while writing this blog) featured a motorcycle that had the same look…a fairing with a single large headlight…

It’s a look that works.  The BMW kind of reminds of the motorcycle in the Bond movie.  I like it.  I wonder how difficult it would be to modify our new 250cc Cafe Racer with a comparable fairing…