Quickshift ergos7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Despite the reduction in peak horsepower, torque increases to provide a stronger mid-range where the tachometer will undoubtedly reside most often on the road. The object was to change the engine, as well as the chassis geometry to make the bike more suitable for day-to-day road use. You can read about our first test of the nasty KTM here.īMW began this project 2 years ago with the idea of creating a fun, fast and easy to ride naked, potentially having a much wider customer base than the intensely focused S 1000 RR superbike. BMW claims the naked S 1000 R has 7 more foot/pounds of torque than the superbike below 7,500 rpm.Īlthough the BMW is still ridiculously powerful for a naked, it looks like the KTM 1290 SuperDuke R, which claims 180 crank horsepower (as well as a higher torque peak) will rule the roost in the Naked category when it comes to brute force. Instead, BMW has reduced the peak horsepower to 160, still a very healthy number, in order to move the powerband lower, where street riders can actually use it. This is what many enthusiast riders claim they want, after all, never really thinking that they can’t use the upper reaches of the tachometer on public roads (unless, of course, they have access to the autobahn). The easier way would have been to take the S 1000 RR, remove the fairing and leave the standard 200 horsepower engine unchanged. “Tame” might not be the correct word, but they have tried to massage this awesome track weapon into a more usable, but still fiercely powerful street machine. BMW has decided to take this ferocious beast and tame it. It remains, perhaps, the horsepower king of the production Superbike category. When we tested the original BMW S 1000 RR superbike, we couldn’t help but be impressed by the engine. ![]()
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