Two students at the International School of Design, Nicolas Bubar (24) and Yves Dufeutrelle (22), thought a BMW Boxer based sportbike would be a good idea and they set to work designing one.
They designed a tube frame around a BMW 1200 boxer engine, with a new head and exhaust that brings output to 150 horsepower. In a 341 pound bike, performance should be quite acceptable. Though the fairing shrouds the opposed cylinders, air is directed in the front of the fairing in such a way that cooling air flows over the cylinders and both out the back and sides.
Front suspension is telelever and paralever rear with shaft drive. According to their description, the bike is designed to be personally fitted to each customer. You go to the dealer for a fitting, after which they produce an upper triple clamp and pedal mounts just for you. Other settings are adjustable.
Mirrors, headlights and license plate are easy to remove with the specially made key so track day setup is just minutes away from the street configuration.
Though everything you see here is a computer image, they have started on the road to building the bike through a partnership with a couple of BMW dealers and a design firm.
I love seeing work like this and I'll be looking forward to seeing the finished bike. Great work guys!
Thanks for the tip, Doug!
Link: IMME 1200
Lots more images below:
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Um, wow…
Trey
Ditto
Damn;
I think my mind just blew up.
SHA-WINGGGG!!!!
And the design school kids strike again! That aside, it’s a really impressive looking bike.
It looks like a jaguar on wheels, not a bad thing at all!
don’t really like the area surrounding the handlebars, but other than that i’m in love. and i don’t even like BMW’s.
Rubbish. There’s no good reason for a fairing to be that ugly.
What I want to know is whether they’re going to turn the boxer engine’s key limitation in a sportbike — limited lean angle due to its width — into a fun opportunity. How about some custom valve covers with replacable “grinding” pucks?
OMG! That’s impressive! Quite original… but I don’t know how functional.
Looks like a jaguar or a cheetah caught mid stride. I don’t like the way the seat has nothing behind it, that’s a design philosophy I’ve never found attractive, and I can see this being another mistake of the 2000s, but right here, right now… I want one. First attractive BMW bike I’ve ever seen.
The seat doesn’t exactly have nothing behind it. There is a little wing thing, which presumably creates downforce from the airflow coming from the rider’s posterior. That way you can adjust rear squat on the fly by eating a bowl of extra-spicy chili beans before the race.
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It’s more of an aesthetic thing, although it lends itself well to the overall shape and design, the bike does seem slightly too front heavy. Perhaps to counter the obvious rising rim inflection of the engine. Perhaps with the same shape, just extended outwards to provide some form of insurance against that “Oh dear, I could have sworn there was a motorcycle underneath me just before I pulled the throttle” moment.
Obviously, it’s a really striking design, but the Confederate “Renevatio” (if I’ve remembered spelling the name right!) still beats the design to my mind, but has even less under the rider’s bum (apart from the wheel, of course, but I don’t really fancy finding myself falling astride that at 100 mph+….)
Bravo, perfetto, that motor so beautifull…
Forgive me… but the thing looks photoshopped
simply wow…
what a bike!!!!
superb looks
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