BMW R nineT

Yaayuh! · 4 Oct 2016 at 09:49

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new-bikes/2016/october/r-ninet-racer-leads-bmws-retro-revolution/

New "Racer". They're really throwing all they have at the retro market now

Not sure i like it over the standard R nineT.

tom_e · 4 Oct 2016 at 09:58

Hmmmm. Nope.

Prefer the standard one.

TallPaul_S · 4 Oct 2016 at 10:01

Might look better with spoked wheels, but I'd take the scrambler over that.

MowyTone · 4 Oct 2016 at 10:13

It's probably because they are trying to get into Triumphs share of the retro market

It's not my taste

Tefal · 4 Oct 2016 at 10:48

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/new-bikes/2016/june/official-three-heritage-bmws-for-2017/

the heritige one looks nicer

MowyTone · 4 Oct 2016 at 10:59

The great escape anyone?

Junglist · 4 Oct 2016 at 11:39

Rossi~ said:
Not sure i like it over the standard R nineT.

I think that looks cool as hell.

IC3 · 4 Oct 2016 at 12:27

tom_e said:
Hmmmm. Nope.

Prefer the standard one.

+1,

Wizardskills · 4 Oct 2016 at 14:40

Change the colour to a darker one, get rid of the stripes and get rid of the wing mirrors for some bar end ones. Would look much nicer then I think.

Sin_Chase · 5 Oct 2016 at 01:34

That Heritage one is sexxxxyyyyyyyyy

The_Abyss · 5 Oct 2016 at 06:00

Takes retro too far imo but that's just personal taste. I prefer the original.

Yaayuh! · 5 Oct 2016 at 09:26

arfoll said:
put some USD forks on that and I'm in

Yeah the standard R nineT has the USD forks, i wonder if they'll do another version of the racer with them.

IC3 · 5 Oct 2016 at 23:09

https://www.facebook.com/ironandair/posts/1153194344775090

The scrambler got scrambled up.

Tefal · 6 Oct 2016 at 07:26

do bmw make swingarms out of cheese?

oh and spot the flying phone

Yaayuh! · 6 Oct 2016 at 08:27

Single sided swingarms are probably weaker in an accident i'm sure. But we don't have footage of the whole thing to see how the swingarm took a beating.

tom_e · 6 Oct 2016 at 08:41

From the timeline of pictures it just looks like the swingarm folded over on itself when he was up on the back wheel but that can't be right.

TallPaul_S · 6 Oct 2016 at 09:00

He blatantly looped it

I would imagine the swingarm broke when it landed, if it broke mid-wheelie there'd be a much bigger issue. On the pic where he's at about 11 o'clock, there's no foot anywhere near the rear brake, he ain't saving it from there!!

MowyTone · 6 Oct 2016 at 11:03

There's no electronics in existence that would have helped him with that one!

edit: It's already tumbled at that point. You can see the mirror bottom right

Tefal · 6 Oct 2016 at 11:11

MowyTone said:
There's no electronics in existence that would have helped him with that one!

edit: It's already tumbled at that point. You can see the mirror bottom right

if you look at the ful lsequence, wheele control would have stopepd him over cooking it