ORIGINAL: stubblejumper
So,the choice is to either believe you and chuckhawks,or believe all of the sources above,not a difficult decision at all.
All I can do, as chuck did, is give my opinion. The Beamer is a lame excuse as a sportbike. Call it what you want. Its too slow to be a hyperbike, doent have the handling of a sport bike, unrefined as a sport tourer, guess it needs its own class. I am sorry your dead set on it, at 19K there are much better choices at far better prices.
I currently race about 5 different bikes, my personal one makes 250+ hp on the spray.
I do have a bit of exp. in this department.