BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive

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BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive

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https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/a ... heel-drive

Should be a great bike for the budding RTW traveller
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Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive

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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?



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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

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ha ha ha hah. good one.
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Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive

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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!
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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.
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Frog 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.
I think April 1st is the point
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Re: BMW to launch XDrive R1200 GS Adventure - All Wheel Drive

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Mike54 wrote:
Frog 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.
I think April 1st is the point
Really, someone went to a lot of effort there.
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