BMW R nineT
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Classic TT: Dean Harrison wins RST Superbike Classic TT Race
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Dean Harrison, riding a Silicone Engineering Kawasaki, dominated the RST Superbike Classic TT Race to win the final race of the 2018 Classic TT presented by Bennetts, his fourth Classic TT win, by over a minute. After the race he revealed that it had taken him a while to get going in the race: “I…
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BMW R nineT ‘Giggerl’ Custom Project. It’s MAD.
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Austrian bike-builder Bernhard Naumann has built chopped and changed BMW’s R nineT – and come up with this mental custom project called the Giggerl. Naumann built the Giggerl on behalf of BMW Motorrad for the 2018 Soul Food event at Neukirchen, Austria. And he’s called it the Giggerl because it reminds him of a…
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BMW announce its Bespoke R nineT Racer Build Winner
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Eight custom BMW R nineT Racers were produced by eight different Motorrad Retailers, for the first-ever BMW Bespoke Build contest – and today it has been announced that Chester Motorrad has taken the crown. Road legality was the only limitation imposed, as BMW allowed its retailers imaginations to run wild as they created unique R…
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Video: Kawasaki offers a second glimpse of its 2018 Z900RS
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Kawasaki has released a second video, teasing the release of its long-awaited Kawasaki Z900RS. The retro bike market is massive at the minute. There’s Triumph’s ever-popular Bonneville range, Ducati’s set of Scramblers and BMW’s range of R NineT’s all vying for position – but Kawasaki has decided to renter the ring after the limited success…
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Video: Kawasaki set to unveil its new retro Z900RS this October
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Kawasaki revealed that its new retro-styled modern classic, the Z900RS, will be unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show on October 25th – and there’s a super stylish accompanying video showing a glimpse of the new bike in action too. The retro bike market is massive at the minute. There’s Triumph’s ever-popular Bonneville range, Ducati’s set…
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Video: Just somersaulting over a R nineT Racer… like you do…
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https://youtu.be/XZmqk8ZoI70 So you’ve got a mate with a BMW R nineT Racer and you’re at a bit of a loss as to what to do with it. So you figure a somersault over the bike and rider, dodging an horrendous collision, is a pretty good idea. Stuntman Olol Shestyarenko performed the stunt in the…
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First ride: BMW R nineT Urban G/S
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It’s quite rare to have a launch test in the UK these days. Most manufacturers opt for the near-guaranteed sun and twisty roads of southern Europe, but BMW UK took a chance on the weather and organised the first ride of the new R nineT Urban G/S in Northampton. Not a bad shout as it…
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Video: Tom Cruise crashing off (and riding around on) a couple of stunt BMW R nineT bikes in Paris for Mission Impossible 6
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Check out this couple of videos caught by Parisian film site StormShadowCrew whilst Tom Cruise has been filming a climactic motorcycle chase stunt for the upcoming Mission Impossible 6 film. There’s a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, a bit of filtering and then there’s the stunt where the bike gets taken out by a…
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Tom Cruise rides (and crashes) a BMW R nineT Scrambler during Mission Impossible 6 filming
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Production has kicked off for the new Mission Impossible 6 film, and we’ve been sent these behind the scenes snaps of Tom Cruise (intentionally) crashing a BMW RnineT Scrambler during filming. Exclusive ‘automotive marketing’ partner for the last couple of films, it seems that BMW is back on board for the latest instalment of the long running…
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Touratech unveils super-lightweight BMW R 1200 GS Rambler
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Think the BMW R1200 GS is too big and clumsy for real world adventure riding? Think again! Touratech has just released details of the R 1200 GS Rambler, a bike that weighs less than 200kg and looks like a proper enduro weapon. At this stage it’s a concept bike, but one that has been developed…
