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Originally Posted by Dr. Curve
Oh my God! No one has mentioned it, and I only got off the plane a hour ago. I leave for New York for a week and look what happens...........no one has mentioned the valve arrangement.
You are looking at RADIAL valve arrangement like MV of now and Rudge of the late 30's.
BMW has gone the distance with this design. Look at those short pin pistons! Radial valves and double overs with slappers.............all dreams have come true. No one will like chasing this BMW around the track or over the mountain..........whichever comes first.
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Well, it may be an engineers wet dream, but it still only makes 133hp. That's just as much as your average 600cc 4-banger, which has to comply to the same EPA crap. And if you don't want to compare against 4-bangers, it is still 30hp down on the 1098. And let's be real, that is the bike it will be and should be compared against. BMW should have no problem creating 160 horsies in that engine.
Special engineering solutions are great but only if they are backed by results. They have wasted a lot of resources for a result that can be achieved with the current R12 motor. So as usual, it seems BMW did the engineering for the engineering again. And who gets to pay for it? We (the customer) do. This is how BMW prices itself straight out of the market.
But it still gives me a woodie.