BMW in MotoGP...it's real!

**Lou Girardin** · 16th June 2006, 12:37

This thread is starting to offend me.

**Crasherfromwayback** · 16th June 2006, 12:39

And Bioboylover....you'd better hope we don't end up on the same peice of tarmac, as when people call me gay, I love to find out who really is.
I think it may well be you.

**nudemetalz** · 16th June 2006, 12:40

Anyway back on track,...I for one would dearly love to see them race in MotoGP. They have the resources, ability and know-how to do it successfully.

They used to race supercharged boxers before WW2 successfully.

**Biohazard** · 16th June 2006, 12:42

pfffft !!!!!!

**Finn** · 16th June 2006, 12:43

fight, fight, fight, fight , fight!!!

**Biohazard** · 16th June 2006, 12:47

Seriously guys learn to take a joke......

If you did then Helen Clarke wouldn't have got into parliament.

Lighten up a bit....

If i offend - it's because you cant take my humour !!!

BTW - BMW racing bikes, heated grips anyone ?

**Ixion** · 16th June 2006, 12:48

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

Anyway back on track,...I for one would dearly love to see them race in MotoGP. They have the resources, ability and know-how to do it successfully.

They used to race supercharged boxers before WW2 successfully.

And in the sidecar classes afterward. not to mention the Paris-Dakar stuff.

I'd be pretty confident that IF they do it, they'll do it in true Germanic style.

von Klunken is getting quite excited, looking through my road map trying to find the map of Paris. He always gets carried away by such things, has trouble remembering the difference between R75 and K75

**Two Smoker** · 16th June 2006, 12:49

Originally Posted by Fooman

F1 engines are now 2.4 litre V8's having been 3 litre V10s for the past few years. They make about 750 hp (at 19000rpm!), so:

750/2400 x 990 = 310 hp for a 990cc, or 250 hp for 800cc. It is the advantage of V8 valve/piston area to displacement and a bucket load more money and technology (e.g. pneumatic valves, more exotic materials allowing them to spin faster).

FM

I stand corrected

**chris** · 16th June 2006, 13:07

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

This thread is starting to offend me.

and a reasonable thread will get shut by the mods rather than an offensive poster being sorted out.

**Ixion** · 16th June 2006, 13:17

H'ya go. A piccy of BMW's thinking on a new racer.

As predicted, no ABS brakes, and top speed is probably not going to be competative. But it is unlilkely that anyone will stay in front of them.

(Incidentally, did you know that spare aprts are still available for these?)

**Lou Girardin** · 16th June 2006, 13:45

Originally Posted by Biohazard

Seriously guys learn to take a joke......

If you did then Helen Clarke wouldn't have got into parliament.

Lighten up a bit....

If i offend - it's because you cant take my humour !!!

BTW - BMW racing bikes, heated grips anyone ?

Oh sorry, I forgot the PT, for those that don't recognise cutting wit.

**Kickaha** · 16th June 2006, 17:32

Originally Posted by Ixion

And in the sidecar classes afterward.

20 years worth of victories in that class from 1954 onwards with only the URS powered bikes beating them a couple of times, it wasn't untill the Konig and TZ Yamaha two strokes came on the scene that the BMW dominance was over

Originally Posted by Ixion

has trouble remembering the difference between R75 and K75

Thats easy the R series Twins are real BMW's the rest are just pretenders to the name

**Ixion** · 16th June 2006, 19:08

Originally Posted by Kickaha

Thats easy the R series Twins are real BMW's the rest are just pretenders to the name

Nah. More that the R75 has machine guns, the K75 doesn't. Always a sore point with von Klunken, he wants machjine guns.I guess maybe we're saying the same thing, real BMWs have machine guns mounted.