Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are just days away from embarking on their latest adventure, the Long Way Down. The pair are planning to go one better than their previous circumnavigation of the globe with a journey from the most northerly point in McGregor’s homeland of Scotland to Cape Town in South Africa. BMW has confirmed it supplied two standard ...
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- 04 May 2007
BMW has officially unveiled its Sportenduro 450 and has confirmed it will be racing it in Spain at Puerto Lumbreras next weekend, April 28-29. This 450cc single-cylinder off road race bike broke cover two months ago, however, at the time BMW was still keeping its project covert. Now the Sportenduro will be running in full BMW livery and in the ...
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- 20 April 2007
This is the first official image of the Sportboxer and the closest thing to a Superbike BMW has ever built. The 140bhp, 195kg (fully-fuelled) Sportboxer is leading BMW’s assault on an all out, no compromises sports machine. This weekend it will be competing in one of the world’s toughest endurance races, the Le Mans 24-hour. On track the Sport Boxer ...
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- 17 April 2007
Here's the world’s first pictures of BMW’s prototype 450cc enduro bike. The next-generation beemer was spotted undergoing final tests as part of the Uelsen Enduro race in Germany at the weekend. The bike was not badged in corporate colours but was entered in the event under the banner of the BMW AG Motorrad team. What’s more, the bike was being ...
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- 06 March 2007
