All Tests – BMW S 1000 RR Test: the surprise Kolossale! – Appearances can be deceiving…

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BMW S 1000 RR test: the surprise Kolossale !

All Tests - BMW S 1000 RR Test: the surprise Kolossale! - Appearances can be deceiving...

Investing in the Hypersport segment by taking inspiration from the Japanese seemed a technically judicious but little daring choice on the part of BMW. Except that with its raging engine and on-board electronics, the S 1000 RR strangles received ideas… Test !

Appearances can be deceiving…

If the sporting reputation of the automotive branch of BMW is well established, the propeller brand does not necessarily still inspire the same feelings in motorcycles. In the imagination of many motorcyclists, German two-wheelers are still intended for quads – even quinquas – rather easy and concerned about their comfort..

Preferring pragmatism and safety to notions of performance and character, the "Behemians" aim to meet the practical and functional needs required of a motorcycle … by often obscuring the passionate and fun dimensions capable of making a large part of the vehicle vibrate the biker population.

But reducing German production to "administrative" motorcycles or for wealthy executives would not only be wrong but unfair: for several years, BMW has undertaken to rejuvenate its range and its customers. However, if the K 1300 and especially the recent F 800 have seriously dusted off the Munich brand, the Hypersport S 1000 RR (read our) simply brings BMW … into a new era. !

Friend reader, you can leave your stubborn assumptions here: with 193 hp and only 204 kg all full (without the Race ABS: read our page dedicated to the technical details of the S 1000 RR), the new German Hypersport tumbles with a bang in a category dominated by Japanese manufacturers for ages. And she intends to make her law there, using the same weapons as the CBR, R1, GSX-R and other ZX-10R…

Aluminum perimeter frame, radial mounted brakes, longest (593 mm) and lightest (6.22 kg) stamped aluminum sheet swingarm, secondary chain drive, 999 cc inline four-cylinder compact (463 mm wide at the crankshaft) and powerful: this is not the technical description of the last Hypersport of the Empire of the Rising Sun, but indeed the very first Superbike stamped BMW !

BMW releases heavy artillery !

However, if by the admission of those responsible for this ambitious project, the S 1000 RR thus seems to present "parallels with its competitors"(sic!), BMW of course claims to have"improved this concept on almost all levels"…

At first glance, the S 1000 RR flatters the ego of the lover of the genre by throwing it values ​​without concessions: 193 hp at 13,000 rpm and 112 Nm of torque at 9,750 rpm! But above all with only 1.05 kg per horse, it has the best power-to-weight ratio in the category according to BMW. !

Determined to tackle all of its competitors on their own playing field, the German is more directly targeting the Honda CBR1000 RR, specifying that with "206.5 kg with full tank and in working order", it becomes the lightest hypersport in the 1000 cc category equipped with ABS (210 kg for the CBR with C-ABS).

Finally, the S 1000 RR brings together technical solutions hitherto reserved for competition: four injection maps selectable on the handlebars, sophisticated traction control (DTC for Dynamic Traction Control) coupled with an anti-wheeling, a shifter and a distribution by pawls inherited from the experience of BMW … in Formula 1 !

An impressive riot of technology that the German is the only one to offer to its future buyers … although the Race ABS, the DTC and the shifter fall within the scope of the option (read our page dedicated to the additional equipment of the S 1000 RR).

It is with these three driving aids that BMW has chosen to show us its racing car on the incredible track of Portimao, in Portugal. Their adoption increases the addition of the standard model by 10% (+ 1230 euros for the ASB + DTC race pack and + 360 euros for the Shifter), i.e. a total of 17,490 euros. A point not to be overlooked when comparing it to its Japanese rivals…

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