Bike review: BMW S1000RR
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June-16-2010 17:30
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Do you know what happens when a cat is placed inside a pigeon coop? Well, first there’s this tiny pregnant pause as both predator and prey adjust to their new reality. Then it’s all flying feathers, mindless panic, and geysers of scalding fear-poo splashing the walls.
That’s what is going on inside the once-orderly boardrooms of Aprilia, Ducati, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki and MV Agusta right about now.
How the traditional cup-bearers of the litre-class superbike crown will deal with BMW’s latest offering when they settle down remains to be seen, but at the moment there is the sudden and sure knowledge that there’s a new sheriff in town – and he’s got his shiny, German, eff-off gun out.
The panic is understandable. After all, everyone knows that kick-arse superbikes were the domain of the Italians and the Japanese – the chances of a fire-breathing, four-cylinder superbike rolling out of Bavaria seemed remote. Then reports began to arrive on the new S1000RR, and pundits agreed: this was the best production sportsbike ever built.
The S1000RR's four modes, Dynamic Traction Control and supernatural lean-angle sensor...