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Tuning BMW R nineT in comparison test
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Tuning BMW R nineT in comparison test

Tuning BMW R nineT in comparison test

Tuning BMW R nineT in comparison test

Tuning BMW R nineT in comparison test

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

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Individual: projection headlights.

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Refined: valve cover black powder-coated, cooling rib edges polished bare.

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Evil: Hellishly loud KessTech silencer with flap.

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Daring: low crouching posture.

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eist: engine end cover with rotating propeller behind glass on the front crankshaft stub.

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Super fine: Rizoma valve covers milled from the solid with the finest cooling fins.

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Precious: fantastically crafted Kineo wheels.

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Brushed and polished: aluminum windshields.

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Submissive: extremely forward sitting posture.

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Ode in metal: sensual tank cap with separate special key, aluminum tank.

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Bold: The Tuning-R nineT from RF-Biktech wears a sleek bikini cladding, martial 240 mm rear tires on a special swingarm, an exhaust outlet in the middle of the rear apron and the license plate on the side. Price: from 21,000 euros.

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Power and passion with the heart of a boxer: Black soul in a clinch with a shiny appearance? No, both are rock’n’rollers!

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

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Tuning BMW R nineT: Dark Knight vs. Rabbit Racer.

Tuning BMW R nineT in comparison test

"Dark Night" vs.. "Rabbit Racer"

Anyone who has mockingly translated BMW as “Biedere Motoren-Welt” has to learn something new. With this tuning R nineT, shiny metallic and dark and dark, angel meets devil. They are everything but ordinary: Martial, flashy, full of passion. The show must go on.

Comparison of tuning BMW R nineT

Udo Jurgens, an old rock’n’roller deep in his heart, knew it. In his song “At the age of 66” he sang memorable: “I’ll buy a motorcycle and a leather dress and sweep through the area with 110 hp.” Well, tens of thousands of BMW drivers do the same when they are 33, 44 or 55 Years. Because the BMW R. Since 2013, nineT has been the last BMW to feature the air-cooled boxer with just 110 hp. The pure naked bike was torn from the dealers’ hands in its first season in 2014 – and it was also the second best-selling BMW in Germany in 2016, an incredible success. Logically, the Bavarians pushed a whole model series with four sister models up to spring 2017.

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Tuning BMW R nineT in comparison test

Tuning BMW R nineT in comparison test
"Dark Night" vs.. "Rabbit Racer"

Seven different matt black tones

These 30,000-euro macho bikes have a lot in common: They are consistently single-seaters with hump seats and dismantled pillion pegs. No, these concepts cannot take passengers. Both can, no, want to be pummeled with their series engines, not just stroll. Both of them have steam, more than can usually be used to the full on country roads. On permanently damp winter roads, the boxers are often a reminder that they have no traction control. Let’s let the Dark Knight go first. Falk Dirla, the highly creative German workshop manager in Zurich, has done a great job. He even made a clever change to the BMW logo – into a silver bat.

It’s a dark night: Seven different matt black tones make up this gloomy Batmobile. The fine Halloween textures of the airbrush can only be seen up close. Black beauty. Apart from the spokes of the standard wheels and the Brembo brake discs, everything on this motorcycle is black powdered, painted or anodized. Nomen est omen. And being normal is especially bad. Even the circular Motogadget indicators in the handlebars appear gloomy. They shine brightly when required.

The crowning glory of the wild creation is the engine front cover. The original part is made of disgusting ABS plastic, but here sits a classy aluminum milled part. It provides a view of the crankshaft pulley underneath through a sight glass. The guys from Arrigoni Sport have planted a BMW propeller on top of it! Meaningless but fascinating – see video above. In order for the propeller to come into its own, a narrower and wider oil cooler was needed; it reveals the appreciation of BMW’s beginning as an aircraft engine manufacturer. A lot of fun, can be retrofitted to all air-cooled four-valve engines! Orders come in from all over the world. And the Black Knight drives well too. Thanks to Motul’s 10 fork oil, his fork offers noticeably more damping and works nicely, especially in the rebound stage. In return, the series shock absorber speaks loudly, it should be able to do more by default.

Rabbit Racer with an extreme seating position

It’s the other way around with the “Rabbit Racer”: Its Ohlins shock absorber with expansion tank has plenty of reserves and sufficient negative spring travel ready. Just a poem, how cleanly it speaks. The standard fork, on the other hand, has an almost lax dampening effect, which naturally Ohlins springs do not change anything. But the first challenge with both BMW R nineTs is flat city traffic: on the Silver Surfer, the seating position is far too hyperextended.

Although the wide flared handlebar stubs are four centimeters higher, they are also clamped much further forward than on the Dark Knight. They are still in front of the stanchions of the upside-down fork, but belong further back. The resulting attitude is extremely demanding. After two kilometers in urban canyons, your back hurts, your wrists hurt. At crawl speed comes the agony of hell before the great fun. This bike needs to run out! Broad-shouldered and elongated, the upper and lower arms need to be able to take on, a real gorilla stature. In this Schorsch-Meier memory posture, the jacket keeps sliding up. It’s good that there are still kidney belts. After all, the individually upholstered seat from www.takeseat.de is quite comfortable.

Dark Knight with a turning circle of 7.25 meters

This also applies to the Wunderlich Dark Knight seating furniture. Your ABM handlebar stubs are extremely low, but closer to the driver. It’s a crouched, sinewy appearance, sensual and sporty, quasi a German, pardon: Swiss Ducati. A 7.25 meter turning circle is damn annoying with every U-turn. The low steering stop is due to the subframe for the Ducati fairing. It is wide and actually provides real protection from the wind, although Falk Dirla has boldly cut the window flat. Even with speedometer display 230, when the engine hangs jerkily in the limiter, it is hardly necessary to duck. The Black Knight runs straight ahead like clockwork.

Sound is not really neighborly …

Naturally, the windbreak behind the mini-shield, à la the racing rabbit’s start number field, is much smaller: head and shoulders are fairly free in the oncoming hurricane. But at higher speeds, the airstream finally carries with it. The heated grips are a relief in the cold. Both machines sound boxy and nasty. It doesn’t happen so often that the postman at BMWs forgets to drop his mail, the gas station attendant to refill it, to collect the saleswoman. The Akrapovic exhaust of the “Rabbit Racer” sounds muffled without a catalytic converter and dB eater, and grumbles deeply bassy when overrun. Like a Bayern fan when his club loses for once. The sound becomes aggressive, roaring and voluminous under load.

Even more blatant, not really friendly to neighbors, the Black Knight thunders: If you set the flap in the Kesstech exhaust electrically to draft using a servomotor and the push of a button, biblical trumpets blow to storm Jericho. Acoustically, that’s a lot of noise, almost uncomfortably loud. Don’t you go into the kitchen for at least ten years for something like that in Switzerland? The boxer runs a little rough, like poorly synchronized. When idling, he sometimes shakes himself like a poodle after a bath. But that has the same cause as winter starting difficulties: One of the 430 gram lithium-ion batteries from Ultrabatt was defective, the starting current was too weak. Falk Dirla transplanted them under the tank to create a free frame triangle.

Choice of tires for the BMW R nineT conversions

The Senger-BMW also vibrates clearly, as hearty as fresh wholemeal bread. Let’s post a series spread. No mistake: The socially committed company also offers engine tuning for two-valve boxers, pumps four-valve engines to up to 1250 cubic meters and 130 hp. Senger regularly builds benefit bikes for charitable campaigns, for example to support children’s cancer wards. The agency has existed since 1992/93. In 2014 the business was then passed on to the two sons. In the thicket of bends your tuning bike folds down quite easily, but always needs a bit of pressure in an inclined position to stay exactly on course.

The flatter 50 mm cross-section of the rear tire is probably noticeable here. The Metzeler noticeably more arcs and develop less grip in the cold. It means carefully approaching the limit. An ode to the art of milling are wonderful and expensive Kineo spoked wheels. The Pirelli Supercorsa SP of the Dark Knight work wonderfully: sticky and strong. In addition, with the more modern 55 cross-section, they make it more neutral and more targeted. The Black Knight weighs just under 222 kilograms (the same as a series R nineT) and is thus seven kilograms heavier than the Rabbit Racer, but looks more manageable.

Valve covers milled from solid

The brushed aluminum tank with no visible welding seams on the silver-gold-blue bike is a dream. Here the suction snorkel is extended with an aluminum cover – in contrast to the Arrigoni: it is cut off on it to make space for the paneling that is pulled far back. The Rabbit Racer is haptically fulfilling, everything you touch feels good in your hand. His Rizoma parts alone cost a full 4,500 euros. The highlights are the valve covers milled from solid. Real fine rib cooling fins, a declaration of love for the high art of CNC metalworking. But the folding hand levers, the noble handlebar stubs, the finely milled footrests or the great upper triple clamp make the Rabbit Racer desirable.

Nevertheless, the Dark Knight seems more independent: ready to jump like a black panther. Every detail speaks for itself. Therefore the closing words belong to the designer Georg Godde and not to Udo Jurgens. Even BMW tuners, Godde even complains about the “inflationary model flood of the R nineT family”. He says: “Nine T customizing is usually characterized by expensive add-on parts such as handlebar fittings, CNC-milled valve covers and other types of paintwork, in other words, it remains superficial and does not change the original baseline!” You really can’t blame the Dark Knight for that . Arrigoni Sport has consistently used the opportunity for change. Compliment. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Showcase roadsters and figureheads

At the end of 2013, the R nineT heralded a new era at BMW, hip instead of conservative, classically inspired and yet modern. Tuners around the world created very individual and refined Bavarian-Berlin pugilists on this basis.

The R nineT pays homage to 90 years of BMW Motorrad: an air-cooled driving machine, reduced to the bare essentials, essential, pure and puristic for unfiltered experiences. Passion creates emotion, passion follows love: it is now the best-selling BMW after the 12-series GS. And that, although the base price of 15,200 euros without additional costs is not exactly cheap. Nevertheless, the Flat Twin hits a solvent clientele right in the heart: After decades of pragmatism cast in metal and plastic, the Bavarians have once again placed appearance over equipment, aesthetic forms over function.

From a professional point of view, BMW enthusiast / tuner and graduate designer Georg Godde from Gelsenkirchen (www.cafemoto.de) sees it like this: “BMW can also do lifestyle and significantly more emotional products than what we have known up to now – this is this The core message of the R nineT. Their success story is based “on the hipster segment and on people who the current BMW design doesn’t otherwise appeal to.” For the designer Godde, “the R nineT is not a typical retro bike like Triumph’s Bonneville model family, which looks like copies of historical Triumph Models work. In contrast, the BMW is “a modern, compact naked bike in terms of proportions, a well-made, emotional and active power boxer without a lot of clutter.”

This is based on “a few details such as the uniform, classic black paintwork, which, together with accentuated elements made of polished aluminum (tank!) And spoked wheels, are reminiscent of the BMWs of the 50s.” From this position, the R nineT can be varied in many ways Develop directions further. The number of different tuning R nineTs is now legion. Edelweib Motorsport from Essen built the most powerful R nineT – the “nineT One” with an accentuated design by Cafemoto. The masculine, wiry boxer with 1405 cm³ pressed angry 142 HP and 138 Newton meters on the test bench, see MOTORRAD 2/2016.

There are many other radical or elegant conversions around the world with and without cladding, but many without street approval. These include four bold creations from Japan, which were created in 2014 in the style of cool racing classics, trackers or clubman racers. Ola Stenegard, chief designer of the R nineT: “So many incredible innovations, great details and crazy ideas have inspired me!” Drivers and fans of BMW’s flagship model meet online at www.ninet-forum.de. Have fun.

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