2009 (MY10) BMW HP2 Sport – $26,900
2009 BMW HP2 Sport for sale
SELLER SAYS: This HP2 Sport is a 2009 K29 (0458) model with very low kilometres (5,736km) and has been in a private collection for some time, stored in a covered climate controlled environment for the last few years. Recently serviced by Keith Beaufoy at Bay City BM where more that $3000 was spent on a detailed service covering engine and gearbox fluids, fuel systems seals, new fuel pumps, brakes seals, new battery and complete lubrication of all pivot points. It is an unmarked example of a truly collectable BMW road bike with only 67 examples delivered to Australia and very few with such low original kilometres (none of which were race track completed). The bike has all manuals and the original BMW toolkit. Contact Rod at rodtay00@me.com (Daylesford, Victoria).
EDITOR TERLICK SAYS: One of the golden rules of buying collectible motorcycles is to buy bikes that own a place in history. It’s not enough for them to be “great bikes”, partly because many manufacturers have built models that deserve to be called “great bikes” and equally because riders (and collectors) have very different opinions on what’s great and what’s not. It’s also not enough to be rare. Many rare bikes are rare because they were bloody awful things that no-one wanted, so the manufacturers only made a few and then gave up. But bikes that own a place in history, especially if they’re genuinely rare and genuinely great bikes – well, they’re the ones you want in your collection. Owning a place in history tends to come down to three groups: having done something incredible (like unexpectedly winning the Imola 200, hence the green frame Ducati 750 Super Sport), being the first of a long and successful line (like the first Honda CB750), or being the last of a long and successful line (think Suzuki RG500 at the end of the two-stroke era). In modern times, one of the few bikes that spring to mind in the “last of a line” category is BMW’s HP2 Sport. While most manufacturers followed Honda into the in-line four-cylinder format, BMW stood firm. The BMW reputation for reliability and longevity had been built on gentlemanly boxer twins; beautifully built highway bikes that spent many years being ponderously slow but, starting with the R90S in 1973/74, finding enough mojo to keep the pack in sight. Like Ducati, BMW eventually caved in and added two more pistons to its machinery, driven as much by the marketing department and motorcycle fashion as by the engineers and race teams. But the Bavarians didn’t surrender without creating a legacy boxer – and this is it. The HP2 Sport was the fastest, meanest, most powerful motorcycle ever to run a boxer twin engine. It could go head-to-head with any sports bike on the planet, with rocketship performance in a straight line and near-perfect balance in the corners. This bike of Rod’s looks like an excellent example, pampered all its life and ticking that all-important box of “owning a place in history” while also being truly rare and truly great. Lovely.
