Why So Many BMW's for sale

cozmo1589 · Post by **cozmo1589** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:37 pm

Just reading this weeks MCN and in the classifieds along with all other bikes are 61 BMW R1200GS's for sale!!!!!!!!

minkyhead · Post by **minkyhead** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:49 pm

i would guess that its the warranty running out in a lot of cases

theres another 144 on bike trader if you get stck for choice :woohoo:

Mad Cow · Post by **Mad Cow** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:50 pm

Because they're all buying 990 Adventures?

(actually I got rid of my 1200GS in 2007)

tetley · Post by **tetley** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:03 pm

Just bough one pick it up tomorrow....GS1200 Rally with Dynamic pack, cracking deal with all of the free BMW stuff. It's my third.....they are good.

Brads · Post by **Brads** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:13 pm

Because it`s the UK`s biggest selling bike maybe !?? who knows.

Sleepy · Post by **Sleepy** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:14 pm

I suppose it's an indication of just how many BMW have sold...

cozmo1589 · Post by **cozmo1589** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:26 pm

Brads wrote:Because it`s the UK`s biggest selling bike maybe !?? who knows.

Yes maybe so but I don't see 61 Ford Fiestas for sale in this weeks auto trader - weird :-/ must be a challenge selling and trying to get yours to stand out from the massive crowd

cozmo1589 · Post by **cozmo1589** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:27 pm

Sleepy wrote:I suppose it's an indication of just how many BMW have sold...

Yes that's true, they sell many tens of thousands of bikes annually

Chrisstrom · Post by **Chrisstrom** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:48 pm

Maybe because for years they've been the adventure bike to have, but over the last couple of years there is real alternatives/challengers, the likes of the super Tenere, triumph adventurer, the new Honda as well as all the new 800ish class bikes.

Richard Simpson · Post by **Richard Simpson** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:15 pm

Because Chewing and Farley haven't been on the telly for a while.

I was on my KTM outside a BMW dealership one day when a BMW owner came over to tell me that the KTM marketing department were crap, and BMW has sold all these bikes as a result of the TV tie-in.

I told him I was interested in motorcycling rather than marketing and didn't watch TV.

I think he went home after that