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So I'm curious, does anyone know if the new Primaris Space Marine bikes are going to actually be bigger than the old ones?

If not: then won't people like me be able to SUPER easily just use our old stuff as a stand-in for the new stuff?

If so: aren't they going to look a bit silly as these giant bikes possibly larger than a guardsman?

They look as though they'll be considerably larger. Note that they take up pretty much their full base and the Indomitus store page lists it as a 90mm oval. I believe the base currently supplied with the old bikers is 70mm long, so we're probably looking at the bikers being ~25% longer than the old ones.

As to the bike being a bit bigger than a guardsman, surely it makes sense that a heavily built combat motorbike for a power armoured supersoldier should be bigger than a regular guardsman?

One of the strange things about 40k has always been that the vehicles have been HILARIOUSLY small compared to the "infantry" they were accompanying. "Scale creep" is often talked about as a bad thing, but thus far it's been mostly bringing minis closer in line with their "fluff" "official" sizes. A Space Marine is superhuman. Their bikes are going to be accordingly superbikes. One can only hope that in the future, their transports are bulky enough to match (the Rhino carrying 10 marines was always a joke).

See now all I can think of is a Primaris marine riding a guardsman piggy back, charging around the battlefield.

“Onwards Jenkins!”

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
One of the strange things about 40k has always been that the vehicles have been HILARIOUSLY small compared to the "infantry" they were accompanying. "Scale creep" is often talked about as a bad thing, but thus far it's been mostly bringing minis closer in line with their "fluff" "official" sizes. A Space Marine is superhuman. Their bikes are going to be accordingly superbikes. One can only hope that in the future, their transports are bulky enough to match (the Rhino carrying 10 marines was always a joke).

That isn't unique to 40k, lots of systems, bolt action for example, scale vehicles down compared to infantry to make them smaller and therefore cheaper to manufacture/retail.