CARBON DATING
“IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT A CLASS-LEADING LITRE BIKE ENDS UP RELEGATED TO THE ROLE OF WARM-UP ACT.”
If Carlsberg made track bikes they’d be pretty crap compared to this one. Come to think of it there aren’t many machines this side of the MotoGP fence that could hold a candle to BMW’s ludicrously lavish HP4 Race, at least in terms of innovation. Being the first mass produced carbon-framed sportsbike to ever hit the market, you’d be right in thinking it’s more than a little bit special; BMW go as far as to say it’s the future. And even though it’s been over a year since this godlike creation came bounding into our lives, weighing less than a World Superbike and sporting an eye-watering 212bhp motor, we still can’t get enough of it. Lucky for us, or should I say me, Fast Bikes was invited to test it at Almeria.
Being more excited than that time I got my first strip tease, I was struggling to hold myself together when we reached the circuit and discovered a garage with
