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IMME 1200 BMW Boxer Sport Bike

By Paul Crowe

IMME 1200 BMW sportbike

IMME 1200 BMW sportbikeTwo 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:

IMME 1200 BMW sportbike

IMME 1200 BMW sportbike

IMME 1200 BMW sportbike

Posted on February 14, 2007 Filed Under: Motorcycle Design


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Comments

  1. Trey says

    February 14, 2007 at 10:43 am

    Um, wow…

    Trey

  2. Divine says

    February 14, 2007 at 11:53 am

    Ditto

  3. Mayakovski says

    February 14, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    Damn;

    I think my mind just blew up.

  4. Chris says

    February 14, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    SHA-WINGGGG!!!!

  5. Bryce says

    February 14, 2007 at 5:31 pm

    And the design school kids strike again! That aside, it’s a really impressive looking bike.

  6. Erik says

    February 14, 2007 at 6:17 pm

    It looks like a jaguar on wheels, not a bad thing at all!

  7. chris says

    February 14, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    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.

  8. guitargeek says

    February 14, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    Rubbish. There’s no good reason for a fairing to be that ugly.

  9. GenWaylaid says

    February 14, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    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?

  10. motoquest says

    February 15, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    OMG! That’s impressive! Quite original… but I don’t know how functional.

  11. Sean says

    February 15, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    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.

  12. GenWaylaid says

    February 15, 2007 at 9:59 pm

    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.

  13. MAYANK varma says

    February 16, 2007 at 11:20 am

    hi guys ,this public forum rocks if ,a bike lover has not seen this forum he
    is missing a ultimate thing ,some bickes r way beyond the the imagination

  14. Anubhav says

    February 16, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    simply ‘WoW’

  15. Sean says

    February 16, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    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.

  16. Andy H says

    February 27, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    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+….)

  17. roni says

    September 5, 2008 at 1:51 am

    Bravo, perfetto, that motor so beautifull…

  18. Saad S says

    January 8, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Forgive me… but the thing looks photoshopped

  19. bob says

    February 5, 2009 at 10:39 am

    simply wow…
    what a bike!!!!
    superb looks

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