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BMW S1000RR Adventure Bike from Wunderlich

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BMW S1000RR adventure bike from Wunderlich
BMW S1000RR adventure bike from Wunderlich – click to enlarge

So you bought that BMW S1000RR, but what can you do with it besides collect speeding tickets? Why not take it off road, instead? Yes, really, that’s the idea behind this WAY over powered S1000RR adventure bike built by Wunderlich, the BMW accessory guys.

BMW S1000RR adventure bike from Wunderlich
BMW S1000RR adventure bike from Wunderlich

Let’s see, Continental TKC80 knobby tires, Ohlins suspension, Moto-Master brakes, plus numerous other pieces, including very aggressive, but minimal bodywork designed by Nicolas Petit of France.

This should pretty much take care of any horsepower deficiencies you might have been feeling while tooling around in the hinterlands. Overkill? Of course. Extremely cool? Absolutely!

Link: Wunderlich via Motorcyclist Magazine

BMW S1000RR adventure bike from Wunderlich
BMW S1000RR adventure bike from Wunderlich – click to enlarge

Comments

  2. It looks as if it could start World War III all by itself. I’d have to spend a few weeks in the gym just to ride it, but it should be able to crush nearly every off-road situation it meets. Very cool, even if it’s less than practical.

    Lord Vader, your motorcycle is ready!

  3. Over-the-top would be an understatement. I am imagining a hill-climbing version with an incredibly extended swingarm and a paddle tire. I love it and believe more designers should use hallucinogenics as inspiration (sarcasm).

  4. Well, it looks very cool and mean, but is the suspension travel any longer or the ground clearance better than stock? I can’t tell.

  5. Anyone who’s ever rode a bike without a front fender will know its a really dumb idea on an off road bike…unless you actually plan to never get the front tire into anything wet.

    • ..and if the rear fender isn’t removed before the first off-road encounter, then it will go away on its own.

      Still really BAD ASS

      • There’s enough stuff down there to stop any mud and debris from reaching the rider, fenders or no. Any good, smaller dedicated off-road bike will walk away from this one, but nothing can beat it as far as nasty appearance goes. This bike says “I mean business. Out of my way!”

        • Huh? Whatever flings off that front tire ends up right between the rider’s eyes. That includes any rocks that happen to be sticking to mud.

          • except for the whole bike.

            this thing doesnt need a front fender becouse the engine and body work act as a sheild against mud or rocks flying off the wheel

            • You’ve never ridden a bike without a front fender. Obviously. You drive into, and your face collides with, the stuff that is flung up and forward from the top of the front tire. In the rain if feels literally like you are following close behind a water truck with a hose pointed straight at your face. The water spray that hits you square between the eyes is moving the same forward direction you are moving its just moving a little slower so you “catch up” to it and collide with it. “The whole bike” ain’t got nuthin to do with it.

              • So, if I follow everyone here, the entire bike is worthless because it lacks a front fender. I agree, that’s an issue, but I think those comments are a bit over the top, even more than the bike itself.

                Let’s see, pull into shop, add fender, Presto!, problem solved.

  7. I’m loving the comments on this Urban Warrior , but the fascinating back story here is the tires . A new compound by Pirelli specifically for urban warrior / all purpose style bikes as they see this as the NEW trend in both customs as well as manufactures bikes ( so what does Pirelli know that we don’t know ; e.g the manufactured Urban Warriors ? )
    So where to own this you ask ? New York City as well as almost any major metropolitan area with crap streets due the the economic debacle we’re in
    Honestly as much as i love Cafe’s , Shinya Kimura/Jeff Decker style , etc customs its an Urban Warrior of sorts thats making more and more sense for my next project

    • Not sure I follow your logic there. Rough urban streets would demand plenty of suspension travel, but they have little loose material to demand knobby tires. Instead of this set of modifications, wouldn’t you want a supermoto?

  8. Would have looked good in Road Warrior, but has no place in the rough. I’ll stick to my F800GS, which has a front fender, lets me stand up comfortably and can be fitted with a rack for my Giant Loop Great Basin.

  10. 6 inches of front suspension, no mudguard, heavy as hell, yeah good luck with that off road. Another example of useless eye candy for the masses.

  11. Hollywood dreaming! Those radiator’s would be riddled with stone puncture holes or clogged with mud in about five minutes flat if that thing went off road.But I have to admit,it does look cool as a piece of eye candy.

  12. No way in a million years would I ride this. Except if I was 5 years old again, and then I might have trouble reaching the pegs. It looks like it’s about to turn into a robot and start shooting everyone. Grrr!

    Sorry – I don’t like being negative, but this is ridiculous and represents pretty much everything I don’t like about new motorbikes!

  13. I like it but think it should be coupled to a similar styled sidecar, because I don’t want the energy beam weapon operator shooting over my shoulder. I mean it does come with a laser gun doesn’t it?

  14. Looks like something Ewan McGregor might want to use to tour Mongolia.
    Certainly much more stout than the Sears-124 (Pugh) that I charged around on the dirt roads of rural Ohio when I was a teenager.

  15. Great for “bike night” at the tavern. All will think it’s cool. Just avoid that gravel on the way home. Nix on the paddle tire–use a chain like they did in the 1930s, for old school cred.

  16. Put a set of Metzler or Avon tires on it and you’d have a nice looking naked sportbike and forget about the off road riding.

  17. I’d be more concerned about the knobby on the rear. My experience with that tire on a 38 hp KLR wasn’t great. On this bike tire life would be measured in inches.

  18. I think this thing is friggin hideous. You take a bike that does something well and make it do nothing well. It doesn’t even look good. Fail.

      • Unless he wants to produce and sell the thing. Then a bit of popular appeal will be needed. Art or commerce?

  19. Reminds me a bit of that Street Triple that was set up for off-road. Crazy fun. I like the aesthetics better on this, but the Triple would probably be more fun.

  21. Silly waste of otherwise a beautifully capable machine. Its a shame some people do just because they can, right?