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If you’re in the market for a big-bore supernaked, you’re spoilt for choice. You have twins, triples and fours from Japanese and European manufacturers, and no one makes a bad one.
It was BMW who made all of its rivals sit up and take notice eight years ago when it released the original S 1000 R. It had a very, very good superbike in the S 1000 RR – itself a game changer at the time – so when BMW turned it into a comfortable and usable roadbike for the 2014 model year, it raised the bar in terms of not just the technology we came to expect from the genre, but at $18,990 at the time, also the sort of money we should be paying for really high-tech kit.
Fast forward to 2022 and the latest S 1000 R is still very competitive on both of those fronts. In terms of electronics, it’s got all of the bells and whistles, right down to beaming your braking force and cornering lean angle back at you via the 6.5-inch full-colour dash. And the price is very hard to argue with, too. The base model is priced at $22,695 on the road.
