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There’s an oil cooler bolted to the frame above the front mudguard… if you’re serious about doing some scrambling I’d look for a guard, you don’t want to punch a hole it it… but it’s nice and high and out of the way. The engine itself is a variation of the Boxer-twins BMW has been running for decades. Maximum torque is at just 6000rpm, so you certainly don’t have to rev it hard. It’s a very pleasant motor, developing a good spread of power and is nice to use. I can remember when 110 horsepower (81kW) was considered pretty stonking, but these days it’s mid-range stuff, so don’t expect anything eye-watering, but that’s OK – it makes great torque in the mid-range and the bottom-end is healthy, too. But there’s a brown seat and (optional) knobby tyres… so it is distinctive and unusual, which is part of the point, and if you like the concept but aren’t taken by the execution, customise it to suit yourself. There’s a small, round headlight, single circular instrument on the top triple clamp, shorty black front mudguard and an interesting collection of colours – our test bike came in the gun metal grey (tank, rocker covers, headlamp body) while most of the engine is black, as are the wheels, fork lowers and shaft drive. The wheels are black cast alloy, where they should be laced… the fork gaiters are retro too, with 43mm conventional forks. The fittings and design touches are almost steampunk, especially the air intake tubes running under the tank, the frame brackets under the rider’s part of the seat, and the pressings and pads on the tank itself. It’s a little bit 1950s British Scrambler, a little bit 1980s R 80G/S, a little bit R 90… the influences are many and varied, but the result is an interesting looking bike which shouldn’t work – but it does. One model over 60 years ago doesn’t really cut it in the heritage stakes from my perspective, but whatever… Now we have the R nineT Scrambler and next year a couple more models join the Heritage range, as BMW is now calling the bikes.ĭesigned around a philosophy of style, customisability (hey, I just invented a new word!) with a dose of practicality, both the R nineT and the new Scrambler variant offer a stylish flat-twin powered, easy to ride and own good-looking motorcycle.īMW is at pains to point out it’s got history with scramblers, but only points to one in the press release about the bike – the 1951 R68 with an optional high exhaust. BMW WENT retro a while back with the R nineT, a bike which had the styling of yesteryear with modern performance, electronics and reliability.
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