I’m ignoring the fact you can opt for the quite frankly idiotic off-road Metzeler Karoo 3 tyres, if you go for these you are mad, I’m talking about the road-orientated Metzeler Tourance tyres.
To my absolute delight BMW have chosen to give the Scrambler the same size tyres as the GS. Naturally you can pimp up your Scrambler with optional extras that include spoke wheels, an aluminium petrol tank, rev counter and even traction control and heated grips, but this machine is far more about simplicity where the Roadster is very much a performance-orientated bike. Overall, BMW have gone for a more classical look and that has allowed them to drop the price of the Scrambler to £10,530 compared to the Roadster’s £11,900 due to the fact the café racer has items such as inverted forks, radial brakes and spoke wheels.
Pleasingly, like the Roadster, BMW have made the frame modular and you can easily remove the pillion section to give the bike a stripped down back end. Attached to this are conventional forks and brakes, cast wheels with off-road 19-inch front and 17-inch rear sizes, a new exhaust system, a new speedo that lacks a rev counter and a new style of seat. To give the Scrambler its retro off-road look and feel, BMW has taken the air-cooled engine and then wrapped it in a new frame that has slightly more relaxed geometry than the Roadster’s frame. But that is for the future, the present is all about the Scrambler. What that means is that not only does the Scrambler come with the same 108.6bhp and 85.6lb.ft of torque as the Roadster, but that 2017 will see even more R nineT models unveiled, the most likely of which will be a half-faired café racer and probably even a custom styled machine. Thankfully for fans of cubes and fins on their engine’s barrels, some clever work by BMW on the exhaust system has seen the air-cooled boxer become Euro4 compliant without any sacrifice in power or torque. The problem with this is that 2017 sees new Euro4 emissions laws entering force and that has all but killed the large capacity air-cooled engine off. And one that now has a genuine longterm future.Ī huge part of the Roadster’s success since its launch in 2014 is the fact it has an air-cooled boxer engine beating at its heart rather than the latest partially water-cooled boxer unit. And there is absolutely nothing wrong in doing this as the R nineT is a brilliant basis, and extremely popular model that has to date sold over 25,000 units worldwide, with which to develop upon. Essentially, BMW have looked at the current trends that are doing the rounds in shows such as Bike Shed and Wheels and Waves and by using the R nineT platform as a base (the café racer is now called the Roadster), created a new model. While the likes of the Ducati Scrambler and Triumph Street Twin Scrambler (created using a £1745 inspiration kit) are generally aimed at those less hirsute when it comes to their motorcycling experience, the BMW R nineT Scrambler is for men with full grown bushy beards who wear lumberjack shirts with a small smattering of chest wig protruding out of the top…Īs the Scrambler’s name suggests, its look is based around an off-road image.
Another day, another Scrambler, although this time BMW’s offering into this fashion-pleasing market actually has some proper kahunas to back its macho styling up.
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