The age of carbon is upon us, and it’s BMW’s HP4 Race that’s leading the charge into this featherweight frontier.
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 four immaculately prepared HP4s waiting to be tickled. Or £272,000 of motorbikes, if you want to look at it that way. Cheap they most certainly ain’t, but for a mere £68k a pop you’re buying into something so exceptionally special they can make space travel seem boring. Crafted through endless graft, heartfelt aspirations and big boy development budgets, the HP4 Race was spawned to make the world take note of the German brand’s engineering prowess, and not just for its aesthetics.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Summer 2018 من Fast Bikes.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Summer 2018 من Fast Bikes.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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