2024 BMW R 12 nineT First Look [14 Photos + Info]

It has been ten years for the reason that R nineT debuted within the BMW lineup. It has been introduced in a broad vary of retro guises, from racer reproduction and scrambler to sportbike and city adventurer. For 2024, the R nineT will get up to date to the R 12 nineT, and the Seventies is the styling touchstone on this first-look version.

Particulars are initially scarce, with no specs accessible. Nevertheless, we are able to inform you that the R 12 nineT will proceed to be powered by an oil-cooled boxer twin. Though we are able to’t verify it can get a displacement bump to replicate the brand new R 12 branding, the motor has indisputably been reworked.

There are decisive styling modifications afoot with the 2024 BMW R nineT, as Head of Design BMW Motorrad Edgar Heinrich explains: “The purist design language is dominated by the clear tank, seat, rear line, within the fashion of the normal /5 or the legendary R 90 S of the ’70s. At first look, the tank itself is a traditional BMW boxer tank, with a typical bend within the decrease edge and traditional knee contact. The brand new R 12 NineT additionally options facet covers within the space of the body triangle within the genuine roadster look—one other memory of BMW bikes of the Seventies.”

Technical modifications embody a brand new body, inverted fork, radially mounted Brembo calipers for the entrance discs, shock configuration, and rear brake caliper.

Head of BMW Motorrad Dr. Markus Schramm tells us that “the R nineT and its customizing idea established the brand new Heritage expertise for BMW Motorrad’s ninetieth birthday and has turn out to be an indispensable cornerstone of our mannequin vary. The brand new R 12 nineT continues the profitable heritage story surrounding the legendary BMW boxer engines with an much more traditional, decreased design language, even larger levels of freedom with regards to customizing, and, final however not least, new and revolutionary know-how.”

With BMW Motorrad commemorating its a hundredth anniversary, updating the 10-year-old nineT is a positive solution to have a good time. As followers of most of the iterations of the nineT since its inception, we look ahead to testing the brand new 2024 BMW R 12 nineT.

Pictures by Joerg Kuenste

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