Monday, 8 July 2024

Beast of an Engine

 Here's an interesting looking BMW motorcycle engine arrangement:



It's a BMW R80, which was manufactured in the 80s. The engine is a flat twin, also known as the airhead.

It was designed and marketed as an 'adventure' bike, but I can't help feeling that the engine would suffer horribly if you managed to fall off during an adventure. There again, an adventure might possibly be on softer ground than a road.


1 comment:

fatboyburton said...

E reg would indicate 1967 and not uncommon as most BMW bike engines were horizontally opposed at that time 60s/70s/80s you could also fit engine protector crash bars