They actually tipped the motor forward in the frame last year in order to give your shins more room.

Here you go!

Curious to see if there’s a weight penalty for hitting Euro IV emissions targets.

Exhaust by Trypophobic

We’ve already seen “spy” shots of the production mules for this model bumbling around their development centre.

Next year will be a good year.

“They think our bikes look like Transformers now. We’ll show them!”

It’s a considerable improvement, in no small part because they’ve trimmed much of the styling back to actually expose the frame and workings of the bike.

“Shit” is right. To each their own, of course.

Buttered coffee?

Oh, my wallet’s not going to like this. Raise the back a bit, swap the bars, maybe fiddle with the front fork internals...

Hey now, no whining here. It really does make sense: why show the bike bombing down dirt roads when nobody buying this intends to do so? BMW respects our collective intelligence enough to show their new trim level doing what they know we’ll be doing with it.

... Not much scrambling in that video, which makes sense.

... I’m not sure if that reveal says more about the eRR, or the G310R. Even the Yamaha PES1 had an on-track video.

I thought so too. The fit and finish on this is a little embarrassing for an organisation as large and talented as BMW Motorrad.

Apparently this came about as a project by students of the Technical University of Munich, and consists of BMW’s electric scooter powertrain repackaged to fit the frame and fairing of the S1000RR. It is, quite literally, a college-level engineering project. I doubt BMW had anything to do with this beyond supplying…

I can see this playing well in the beginner market if it brings refinement and tactile quality to the segment to the same degree that the KTM brings performance. That’s a tall order considering what the Honda manages at its price point, and whose to say what Yamaha and Kawasaki will (eventually) manage.

Common knowledge, my good man! Yamaha Speed Block livery often instigates The Vapours. A filter regulates their induction from the rider into the engine intake system. Lowers emissions, don’cha know.

A filter, for the vapours.

Yamaha did promise a production PES for 2016 a few years ago, and batteries have only gotten better since...