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BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive
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BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive
We buy things we don't need
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't even like
With money we don't have
To impress people we don't even like
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Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive
Intersting to see how much extra weight the battery pack makes and where is sited on the bike.
I wonder if that lump under the beak half way through is the battery pack?

EDIT The blurb states
"This intelligent combined solution also made it possible to reduce the conventional double-disc hydraulic braking system at the front to a single-disc brake system thereby saving approximately 2.9 kilograms of weight"
Yet in the video below it clearly has two in that innovation displayed

I wonder if that lump under the beak half way through is the battery pack?

EDIT The blurb states
"This intelligent combined solution also made it possible to reduce the conventional double-disc hydraulic braking system at the front to a single-disc brake system thereby saving approximately 2.9 kilograms of weight"
Yet in the video below it clearly has two in that innovation displayed

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Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive
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Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive
Did I read that right? Did it say 45 hp from a 880gram motor? Is is the 1st of April?
But I do remember bmw testing a two wheel drive system before.
So in conclusion I don't know what's real anymore!
But I do remember bmw testing a two wheel drive system before.
So in conclusion I don't know what's real anymore!
Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive
I'm guessing seeing as they don't mention overall weight anywhere that its gonna weigh a feck load more, and most of that in the worst place as unsprung weight.
Really cant see the point really.
Really cant see the point really.
Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive
I think April 1st is the pointFrog wrote:I'm guessing seeing as they don't mention overall weight anywhere that its gonna weigh a feck load more, and most of that in the worst place as unsprung weight.
Really cant see the point really.
Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive
Really, someone went to a lot of effort there.Mike54 wrote:I think April 1st is the pointFrog wrote:I'm guessing seeing as they don't mention overall weight anywhere that its gonna weigh a feck load more, and most of that in the worst place as unsprung weight.
Really cant see the point really.
