You’re looking at the world’s first images of BMW’s new Superbike, the S1000RR.
BMW will race this in World Superbikes in 2009. In order to meet homologation standards, 1000 bikes will be in dealers in December 2009 but that’s just purely so that they can qualify to run them in WSB in 2009. The bike itself won’t be available to us mere mortals to buy until 2010.
The target is 190kg with 190bhp for the road bike. It will come with a quickshifter, Ohlins front and rear, Brembo brakes and there’s a lot of talk about the engine’s head too; something is special about it, there’s a possibility it contains pneumatic valves but BMW are being really cagey about it all.
