Tourist Trophy – Tourist Trophy 2017: a tour of the Isle of Man on the BMW HP4 Race in on-board video – Used BMW

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Tourist Trophy 2017: a tour of the Isle of Man on the BMW HP4 Race in on-board video

Tourist Trophy - Tourist Trophy 2017: a tour of the Isle of Man on the BMW HP4 Race in on-board video - Used BMW

Hold on to the keyboard for a full tour of the Isle of Man road circuit in the BMW HP4 Race driven by Peter Hickman during the Tourist Trophy 2017 ! The 30-year-old Briton uses each of the 215 hp of this ultra-exclusive version of the S1000RR, which has a hand-crafted carbon frame and trim !

It has become a habit: each edition of the Tourist Trophy leads in its wake the broadcast of on-board videos of motorcycles speeding at Mach 2 between houses on the Isle of Man, level with spectators’ mustaches. Not to mention the impressive images of jumps negotiated over bridges at insane speeds, with the bottom of the fairings rubbing against the asphalt, the suspensions are so badly compressed on landing ! 

Tourist Trophy - Tourist Trophy 2017: a tour of the Isle of Man on the BMW HP4 Race in on-board video - Used BMW

These surreal scenes for ordinary bikers become the daily life of “TT” pilots during the Tourist Trophy race week, contested every year in June in this part of the world where speed is unlimited outside town! What trivialize the images produced by the daring participants, who risk their lives to risk the 60 km of this very selective road race? Not really, no !

The HP4 Race takes on the Tourist Trophy 

The proof with this video produced by the English subsidiary of BMW with the British driver Peter Hickman, who participated in this 2017 edition of the “Titi” with the new and very exclusive. Impossible not to remain stuck in front of the images of “Hicky” who engages in an intense fight in the winding parts with the overpowered German Superbike of 215 ch (16 ch more than the) !

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With its chassis and its carbon coating, the beast of only 171 kg in running order (against 208 kg for the!) Leaps to the helmet of its pilot at each re-acceleration, frequently rewarding him with monstrous wheelies that does not calm the passage. 5th and 6th gear: watch the sequence a little bit after the passage to “Ballaugh Bridge”, at 8min36 on the reader at the bottom of the page. It’s hot, bordering on violent !

The passage in the long line of “Sulby Straight”, at 9min20, is another particularly bluffing indicator of the mechanical health of the 4-cylinder of the HP4 Race, which hangs 190 miles / h, or almost 306 km / h on its odometer. ! No doubt: it works very hard this real racing motorcycle, handcrafted in only 750 copies of which around thirty for France.. 

Tourist Trophy - Tourist Trophy 2017: a tour of the Isle of Man on the BMW HP4 Race in on-board video - Used BMW

However, MNC expected no less given its “charred” design and its sumptuous peripherals derived from MotoGP and WSBK: the Ohlins FGR 300 fork and the TTX 36 GP shock absorber are strictly identical to those used by the elite. world speed! As for its swingarm – reinforced with light alloy – it comes directly from the S1000RR of World Superbike, just like the Brembo monobloc GP4 PR calipers. Price of this exceptional motorcycle? Around € 80,000! Ouch !

A racing beast, brash and demanding that requires all the talent of a driver of the caliber of Peter Hickman, who is among the next generation in the "Road race" category and also competes in the English Superbike (BSB). The 30-year-old Briton clinched second place behind Michael Dunlop’s GSX-R1000 on his handlebars, having also reached the podium during the then Superstock. !

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