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BMW Motorrad is the motorcycle brand and division of German automotive manufacturer, BMW. [1] It has produced motorcycles since 1923, and achieved record sales for the fifth year in succession in 2015. With a total of 136,963 vehicles sold in 2015, BMW registered a growth of 10.9% in sales in comparison with 2014. [2] In May 2011, the 2,000 ...
The R 32 also started the tradition of shaft drive, which was used on all BMW motorcycles until 1994. The BMW R 37, produced from 1925 to 1926, was BMW's first sporting model. It was based on the R 32 and used an overhead valve engine producing 12 kW (16 hp). The first single-cylinder BMW motorcycle was the 1925 BMW R 39, which was BMW's ...
BMW began production of motorcycle engines and then motorcycles after World War I. [50] Its motorcycle brand is now known as BMW Motorrad. Their first successful motorcycle after the failed Helios and Flink, was the " R32 " in 1923, though production originally began in 1921. [ 51 ]
BMW Motorrad is the motorcycle business unit of the German company BMW Wikimedia Commons has media related to BMW motorcycles . Pages in category "BMW motorcycles"
BMW R80G/S BMW R80GS BMW R100GS. The first shaft driven GS model was the R80G/S with a 797.5 cc air-cooled, flat-twin boxer engine. [3] The BMW 247 engine, which was also fitted to many other bikes in the BMW range, is known as an airhead, because it relies on airflow across the cylinder heads and cylinder 'barrels' to provide most of the cooling for the engine.
The BMW R1100RS used a frameless design, using the engine as a stressed member, an approach used by BMW for all subsequent oilheads (except the R1100S). Instead of having conventional telescopic forks, the R1100RS used BMW's own Telelever suspension which bolted directly to the engine. The Telelever design has a superficially similar appearance ...
The motorcycle is powered by a newly developed air and oil-cooled 1,802 cc (110.0 cu in), 91 hp (68 kW) two-cylinder boxer. It is the largest two-cylinder boxer engine for motorcycles built by BMW so far. The valves of the four-stroke engine are controlled by tappets, push rods above the cylinders and rocker arms.
These motorcycles were targeted for developing markets, markets with prominence of lower-displacement bikes, and as entry-level sport bikes in developed markets. [5] This was the first time that BMW Motorrad ventured into developing the sub-500 cc bikes. [6] BMW K03 was the code name given to the first collaborative product of BMW-TVS.