Any discussion on BMW coming out with the next Generation RT?
Yeah Yeah Yeah, I'm still waiting for the Light Cycleka5ysy said:Actually they will be using liquid hydrogen cooled superconductor magnets for a new maglev drive system. No tires, oil changes, FD, etc to worry with. A true dual sport or tourer configured by selection on the multi-controller menu. Adaptive skins adjust the fairing to whatever speed and on/off-road configuration you happen to be in. Small fusion power reactor for main power to the engine, Million mile range to replacement.
If they do, it will be a next step in the same direction, I don't think BMW will drop the idea of a "network" bike.Mick-F said:...............and get rid of the can-bus
Mick
Shit, I can draw better than those pictures. It's as bad as the ones of UFOs.beech said:This may be it. Liquid cooled and on the road.
http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/news/bmws-liquidcooled-boxer-spotted-wild/#more-18483
HiMick-F said:...............and get rid of the can-bus
Mick
FMmissusfinz said:Hi
What is wrong with Can-bus? What would you replace it with?
Ellie
Pounds of copper wire and a ridiculously large wiring harness.missusfinz said:Hi
What is wrong with Can-bus? What would you replace it with?
Ellie
Yeah, well, good luck with that. I tried explaining it, I'll tap out and let you give it a go.pbarney said:Not to beat a dead horse... Complaints about CAN are a little misguided. It's more about the ZFE than CAN. I think BMW could have developed a better method for their customers to hang their electro-farkles without having to add a separate fuseblock, etc. CAN is nothing more than a communication protocol between electronic modules on a vehicle. Hell even H-D's have CAN!
-Pat
The future? I say live it of live with it!
Exactly!New2rt said:Pounds of copper wire and a ridiculously large wiring harness.
mneblett said:Why? Because you have to go to the effort of installing a bypass for your Battery Tender and other accessories (which should be on a separate fuse box anyways)?
KEEP the CANBus! It has/will enable many integrated functions by allowing disperate components to communicate with one another, while reducing wiring complexity and weight.
Much of the most recent advances -- traction control, electronic cruise control without a separate cruise actuator, GPS integration, latest generation ABS integration with traction control and lean angle sensor, electronically-controlled suspension, use of a multi-controller to operate several systems, rather than a Gold Wing-like proliferation of literally dozens of operating buttons on the bars/tank/fairing, etc., etc. -- would simply not be possible without a CANBus architecture.
And no, CANBus doesn't make the bikes harder to service -- they are still mechanical devices with electrons moving about, and there are only a few things you really *need* a dealer's diagnostic machine for (and even most of these can be handled by aftermarket devices such as the GS-911-- something which is true for both CANBus and non-CANBus electronics-equipped BMWs in the last two decades). If anything, CANBus makes reading codes and narrowing in on a problem easier.
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I have to say I get pretty tired of the anti-technology cries -- people want lighter, faster, lower cost, lower maintenance, more reliable bikes, but heavens forbid that is achieved with technologies with which they are unfamiliar or uncomfortable.
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