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    NAKED AGGRESSION

    Aug 18, 2019 5 minutes
    WORDS: JON URRY
    PICS: CHAPPO

    What do you do if you have already left all of your sportsbike competition trailing in your wake? You up the ante, rip the fairing off your superbike and create a super naked – naturally. Well, that’s what BMW did in 2014 as they unleashed the S1000R, a full-on roadster that promised to do to the likes of the Tuono, Z1000 and Speed Triple what the S1000RR did to the Japanese sportsbikes. Or were we all being a little optimistic…

    Make no mistake, the R and RR most certainly share the same DNA. However, where the likes of Aprilia pull no punches when it comes to their class-leading super naked, BMW were a little more cautious. Yes, the R’s engine is basically the same inline four as found on the superbike, but

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