Projects from BMW and Moto Guzzi, Triumph Erlkonige

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Projects from BMW and Moto Guzzi, Triumph Erlkonige
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Projects from BMW and Moto Guzzi, Triumph Erlkonige

Winter blossoms

The 2007 motorcycle vintage is already sprouting and blossoming. Still hidden under the layers of snow and ice from winter 2005/2006. Some references and photos found their way to MOTORRAD anyway.

Something is still missing? a naked bike with the 1200 boxer engine, or as BMW would call it, a Roads-
ter model, the R 1200 R. That was pretty glorious two years ago
started with the presentation of the R 1200 GS, the Moderni–
The expansion of the Boxer series with more powerful, quieter and more revving engines would probably be completed with this model. Unless the Munich-based company can come up with a couple of exclusive niche motorcycles like the HP2.
Motorcycle designer and MOTORCYCLE draftsman Stefan Kraft faced it after studying the shape of the new boxers from the 1200 GS to the RT, ST, S and HP2 in detail and also glancing at the K 1200 R and the F 800
as a further development of the R 1150 R design. It should be more angular than the flowing lines of the old R suggest, and it should have a narrow, distinctive face. This is a topic that designers are currently approaching from all directions. Street fighters, enduros, supermoto motorcycles, even rally machines and super sports cars provide suggestions that are merged into very expressive front views. In a boxer BMW this is already given by the silhouette of the engine, but it makes sense to set different visual accents in the area around the headlights than the chrome-plated lamp and instrument pots of the R 1150 R..
Extremely tentative hints from a BMW spokesman, who would have preferred to deny the very existence of the project, suggest that Stefan Kraft made the drawing more aggressive in this respect than the later R 1200 R.-
will see. Because the spokesman described a rather conservative group of customers that the R 1200 R should win, people who are still very attached to the ideal of the classic, undisguised motorcycle, without following a retro-look fashion. Therefore the short exhaust pipe of the roadster drawing, as beautiful as it might be, is also questionable; The later original machine will probably have a rear silencer in similar dimensions to the GS. Especially since the GS and R models traditionally have the same engine variant, in this case the 98 and 100 hp versions. But the visual lightness that was the aim when designing the roadster,
to signal the newly gained driving dynamics that possesses
the design to a great extent.
The Erlkonig photos, which were recently taken during Triumph test drives in Spain, also show a draft, albeit a moving one. A small speed triple roared in front of the photographer’s lens, equipped with the intoxicating 675 three-cylinder of the super sports car Daytona, which motorcycle journalists can drive for the first time these days. Except for the milky coolant expansion tank on the left of the engine, which is safely moved inside,
the three-cylinder and its ancillary units have an attractive appearance. The triplet was presumably also designed for use in bare motorcycles from the start.
There are indications that the stern is still ge-
changes and similar to that of the 1050 Speed ​​Triple is docked. Which would be a shame. Because it would certainly not promote the market opportunities of the 675s if they came along as a scaled-down copy of the 1050s. Not to mention the speed
Triple 675 as an exclusive, but still direct con-
competition for motorcycles like the Honda Hornet 600, Kawasaki
Z 750 or Yamaha FZ6 must compete. In this class, everyday criteria such as properly accommodating a passenger or a piece of luggage in the back seat play an important role. This is only possible to a limited extent on the large triple due to the lack of support and space. And thirdly, stubby tails on motorcycles are not necessarily everyone’s star.
Evidently Triumph knows that too, because as the two Erlkonig photos of the new Tiger show, the design element of the “broken off” tail rump is only provided in a softened form. A short overhang behind the end
the bench is known as a large-volume supermoto-
Machine designed Tiger too. Slight changes compared to
the drawing published in MOTORRAD 2/2006, which was taken from another, albeit much worse Erlkonig photo, shows the front section. Now completely
Headlights that have been freed from adhesive film continue to pull on the
Sides of the half-shell cladding to the rear, the cladding itself is less angular than on the drawing.
With the view of the swing arm released for the first time, the efforts of the chassis developers to achieve more stability become apparent. The swing arm has stiffening upper parts; At first glance it looks like the one on the Daytona 675, with the axle mount being further back and below. The wheel dimensions of the new Tigers have been confirmed: wide 17-inch wheels with sporty street tires are used at the front and rear.
Just as Triumph in the wake of Ducati Multistrada, KTM Supermoto or Superduke is turning away from the enduro concept and more towards the supermoto design, the traditional company Moto Guzzi is also trying to do this. With a few different accents than the three mentioned, for example spoked instead of cast wheels, but definitely in the same direction.
S.telvio is to be the name of the motorcycle, based on the Italian name of one of the most spectacular Alpine passes, des
Stilfser Joch. When asked how things are going with this project, Guzzi said gruffly: “No comment.” Which usually means something like “Shit, we’re caught”. And also applies to Moto Guzzi. Because not only the author of the computer retouching shown here, Jean-Marie Guerin, has long since had reliable information about the existence of a prototype that is currently being developed. Whether this motorcycle that on
based on the chassis and drive of the Griso, but the Piaggio group management actually approved one
Series production received has not yet been decided. It would definitely be worth the study with its low, elongated, massive shape combined with very simple furnishings.

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