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BMW S1000RR
Ah, BMW. Boring Motor Works, right? Their bikes don’t exactly have a high-speed reputation. Want to ride around the world? No problem. Roll up a zillion touring models in comfort? Covered. Slay the best from Japan and Italy? You must be joking. Yeah, well guess what, BMW’s asymmetrical shark, the S1000RR, ain’t joking around at all.
With horsepower on par with the Kawi H2 and enough computer power to run a corner of the Internet, the S1000RR is the Gentlemen’s Express when you feel like giving that gentlemen next to you in traffic the finger and then disappearing into the distance like a Tron lightcycle.
The $15,000 S1000RR features a 1000cc inline-four which, while common everywhere else, is a first for the company better known for boxer twins with their fins out in the breeze, or oddly configured laydown-four “brick” engines. Does it work well? For crissakes, this is BMW. Of course it does.