Karl Maier with BMW S 1000 RR on the dirt track

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Karl Maier with BMW S 1000 RR on the dirt track
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Karl Maier with BMW S 1000 RR on the dirt track

Karl Maier with BMW S 1000 RR on the dirt track

Karl Maier with BMW S 1000 RR on the dirt track

Karl Maier with BMW S 1000 RR on the dirt track

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Speed ​​drifting with world champion Karl Maier. MOTORRAD presents the upcoming one “Trend sport” Number one. Not really serious, but a lot of driving fun.

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Speedometer 145 km / h. No wonder: the rear wheel spins mercilessly.

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Left footpegs are completely overrated. Much more important: head over the handlebars and always stay on the gas. always!

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Raise a lot of dust.

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Thank goodness only a small slip in the Karl Maier memory curve.

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The main thing is that nothing bad has happened to the driver.

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The Highsider gives the driver slight wounds on the foot and the editors the knowledge that the left footrest comes from Germany and the headlight is made in Slovakia.

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But the bike also bore traces of the fall and the rapid ride.

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The handlebars were not without scratches either.

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But as long as Karl Maier can still laugh, everything is fine.

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The BMW leaves a lot of traces in the Landshut stadium.

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Professional driver on a closed route. Please, dont’t try that!

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The work can definitely be seen.

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The BMW S 1000 R is closely observed before the start.

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After a non-binding phone call with Karl Maier, the day later he organized an S 100 RR from 2012 that BMW wrote off as a total write-off.

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And against all requests from his wife to repair the leaky faucet in the bathroom, Karl Maier took care of the world’s first speed drifter.

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The final preparations are in progress.

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In the AC Landshut speedway stadium, the photographer, camerawoman and editor are ready and Karl Maier is also on his last legs.

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The total loss titled by BMW was completely renovated: the fairing was shortened, a wide superbike handlebar was fitted, Conti TKC 80 was raised, ABS and traction control were shut down, the stirrup was lengthened and fitted.

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Karl Maier himself for his first race on October 10, 1975 at the grass track race in Eichenried – and won straight away.

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Karl is pleased: it’s great that the Conti TKC 80 is also available as a 180.

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Lovingly elongated stirrups made from original World Cup material from the 80s.

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Moving pictures, moving statements: The editors Lohse (left) and Herder comment on speed drifting online. A crazy idea, but it was worth the effort!

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Karl Maier with BMW S 1000 RR on the dirt track

Speed ​​drifting with Karl Maier
A world champion, a BMW S 1000 RR, a dirt track

The most attractive country roads are overcrowded during the season, and the motorways are usually speed-regulated. So where do you go with the superbike? Clearly: on the dirt track. A world champion shows how it works. MOTORRAD pays Karl Maier and his BMW S 1000 RR a visit.

Klaus Herder

07/29/2013

Of course, you can and should write a lot about the old days in an anniversary issue. It is also advisable to deal with the current technology in great detail in a thick birthday booklet. But isn’t there still something missing? Clearly: a look into the future, the prospects for the most beautiful hobby in the world. More specifically: an answer to the question of how things can go on with what is perhaps the most important motorcycle category; because superbikes like a BMW S 1000 RR find fewer and fewer opportunities to develop in public road traffic. Race training is an alternative, but not everyone lives in the vicinity of a permanent road race track. In contrast, there are railway sports ovals – what a brilliant metaphor – like sand on the sea, even in northern Germany. So what could be more natural than to let off steam on speedway or long-track courses with the 1000? Even. MOTORRAD presents the upcoming number one trend sport in a world-explosive manner: speed drifting. And no less a person than the four-time long track world champion Karl Maier shows how it’s done.

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“We still need something crazy for 17”

Please quickly forget the previous paragraph. This is fictitious garbage that is supposed to give this story the semblance of seriousness. But since that will never work, we can also write how it really was. So then, the boss called the editor: “We need something crazy for 17. Do you think we could do something with Karl? ”A short digression for occasional MOTORRAD readers: Karl Maier has been the MOTORRAD specialist for a long time for everything crazy that has to do with lateral driving. The original Bavarian is already 55 years old, but is guaranteed to never grow up. Call from the editor to Karl (attention: meant as a non-binding question): “Do you think you could let it rip with the 1000 on the speedway track?” Karl’s answer: “I have to go. I’ll give you a thought. “

Grip-no-grip-grip is followed by a clean highsider

Karl makes no further thoughts, he creates a fait accompli. Just one day after the (non-binding!) Phone call, he organized a well-hung S 1000 RR from model year 2012, which BMW wrote off as a total write-off. He continued to ignore the request that his wife had made for over three years to repair the dripping faucet in the bathroom. And in the middle of the season he simply leaves his BMW workshop as a workshop (“My boys can do that alone!”) to get to work: shorten the fairing, mount the wide superbike handlebars from AC Schnitzer, mount the Conti TKC 80, shut down ABS and traction control, lengthen and mount the stirrups (original sand track footrest for the right side). He also installs the rear wheel at a slight angle (“Otherwise it pushes too much over the front wheel”). The arbor is ready, and the editor who has come to the (non-binding!) Preliminary talk is confronted with the question of when it can finally start. A clear case of misunderstanding – Karl was again too fast.

Four weeks later, the time has come: In the AC Landshut speedway stadium, the photographer, camerawoman and editors are ready to experience the rollout of the Speed ​​Drifter. Instead of 70 hp and 90 kilograms, it is now the 400-meter track with 200 hp and 190 kilograms. And how to do it: Karl crosses the BMW S 1000 RR with such a nonchalance that one would like to shed tears of emotion. Short irritation when warming up: A not completely dried out point at the apex of the curve provides the notorious grip-no-grip-grip, which ends with a clean highsider. It doesn’t matter, the headlights and the left footrest are sacrificed to the god of speed, and Karl, during his active days mostly free of falls, comments on the mishap with ease: “I don’t need a rest on the left anyway.” According to the four-time world champion, the driving technique differs only marginally from the tried and tested track sport style: “Always step on the gas, especially when cornering. And above all, never brake.”

At the end of the day, the event, which is intended as a one-off fun, gets a certain momentum of its own, because Karl is already planning further: “It should be even better with a 19-inch front wheel and without a brake (weight).” Was that the birth of a new trend sport? Please take the first paragraph seriously.

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