Tucked away in Higher Bavaria a stone’s throw away from the Austrian border, the city of Burghausen is notable for 2 issues. It’s house to the world’s longest fort, and it’s the place the brand new Krämer GP2-890RR race bike is being constructed.
As we converse, the German boutique motorbike producer Krämer is busy transferring to their new Burghausen manufacturing unit. When you’ve by no means heard of Krämer, it’s most likely as a result of they’re a comparatively small firm with a really area of interest focus. Krämer’s jam is race bikes—particularly purpose-built observe bikes with high-end engineering and mouth-watering components specs.
“The main target of Krämer Bikes is squarely on observe fanatics, and that features each beginner racers and observe day riders,” says the corporate’s world head of gross sales, Jensen Beeler. “The truth that we will take these bikes to skilled races, just like the British Superbike collection, and be aggressive towards among the greatest racers on the earth simply proves the extent of purpose-built equipment we’re creating right here in Germany.”
Krämer’s GP2 platform has been in growth for about 5 and a half years now, with the final 18 months devoted to the 890RR mannequin. It takes up residence because the model’s flagship providing, boasting the best stage of spec in Krämer’s vary. It additionally has the perfect power-to-weight ratio in its class, with 138 hp on faucet and a weight of simply 313 lbs, plus gasoline.
Krämer builds all of its race bikes round KTM engines (it helps that Mattighoffen is simply across the nook). As its identify implies, the GP2-890RR will get KTM’s much-lauded 889 cc parallel-twin mill, as discovered within the KTM 890 Duke. However the model discovered within the GP2-890RR isn’t fairly inventory.
Inside, you’ll discover high-compression pistons and titanium connecting rods, each from Pankl, titanium valves, and a brand new race-spec camshaft. Different upgrades embrace CNC-machined cylinder head ports, Dell’Orto gasoline injection with 48 mm throttle our bodies, and a custom-tuned ram-air system. A two-into-one chrome steel exhaust system rounds out the bundle.
All of these tweaks add as much as a peak output of 138 hp, with 100 Nm of torque on supply and a redline of 11,500 rpm. That’s a hefty bump over Krämer’s GP2-890R mannequin and KTM’s personal ready-to-race RC8C variant. A fast-turn throttle ensures speedy and predictable energy supply, whereas a flat torque curve gives most punch all through the rev vary.
The GP2-890RR can be kitted with an all-new electronics bundle, constructed round a Mectronic mind with an built-in six-axis inertia measurement unit. So it has adjustable traction management and wheelie management, plus the flexibility to regulate the gasoline mapping on the fly, primarily based on data from a lambda sensor that measures burn effectivity within the combustion chamber, through the exhaust.
An AiM MXS 1.3 sprint sits within the cockpit because the bike’s major dashboard, but it surely additionally does double responsibility as a full-specced data-logging system. The Mectronic ECU can be an open system, leaving riders free to tweak the GP2-890RR far past what’s doable together with your common superbike. Krämer plans to launch free software program updates and upgrades sooner or later, as a method of providing help to their prospects.
The GP2-890RR’s drivetrain bundle is housed in a proprietary chromoly metal trellis body (particularly 25CrMo4 metal, if you wish to geek out), with a solid aluminum swingarm out again. The quantity of adjustment factors on the Krämer chassis is fairly nuts. You may tweak the swingarm angle, steering head angle, triple clamp offset, seat top, the size and angle of the clip-on bars, and the place of the rear-set foot controls.
Adjustable WP Apex Professional closed-cartridge forks do responsibility up entrance, with an identical WP Apex Professional shock on the again. Linked to a bespoke progressive linkage, the rear shock will be adjusted for high- and low-speed compression settings, preload, rebound, and journey top. A steering damper is commonplace tools too.
The wheels are ultra-light solid aluminum Dymag UP7X objects, measuring 3.5×17” on the entrance and 6×17” on the again. The GP2-890RR ships with Pirelli Diablo Superbike SC1 slicks. Braking is by means of twin 290 mm rotors and Brembo Stylema calipers up entrance, and a floating 230 mm disc on the again.
Each split-second counts in racing, which is why even small modifications could make a giant distinction. And that’s precisely the method Krämer took with the GP2-890RR’s bodywork. Beginning with the GP2-890R’s design, they nipped and tucked it in increments, ultimately ending up with bodywork that’s 9% extra aerodynamically environment friendly.
Out again you’ll discover the hallmark of Krämer’s bikes—the 16-liter [4.2 gallon] gasoline tank. Comprised of rotationally molded plastic, it acts as a reservoir, a subframe, and a spot to place the bike’s scant seat pad. With its cohesive design and the way in which each single half handles a really particular operate, the GP2-890RR is the very definition of purpose-built.
Krämer is releasing the GP2-890RR as a restricted version 2024 mannequin, with solely 125 items slated for manufacturing. It’s anticipated to start out delivery in September of this yr, for €41,990 in Europe, $39,995 within the USA, and £35,990 within the UK. There’s additionally native pricing for Switzerland, Australia, and New Zealand.
You may solely get it within the matte ‘Brno Blue’ livery pictured right here, until you reside within the US, the place it’ll be out there in black too. However the true query is, the place are you able to race it?
“The GP2 platform is a part of the next-generation Supersport class, which is seeing 900 cc twins and 800 cc triples filling the grids that had been as soon as for 600 cc four-cylinder bikes solely,” Jensen explains. “Many racing organizations are transferring to this guidelines bundle now, and that’s the place the Krämer GP2-890RR finds its house.”
The GP2-890RR can be race-legal within the British Superbikes collection, as a part of the GP2 class which runs throughout the Supersport division. Krämer has already been fielding the GP2-890RR on this collection, through their UK importer’s race staff. So once they say that the bike is race-bred, they imply it.
“The Krämer GP2-890RR is the top of what we’re able to attaining with our GP2 racing platform, and due to this fact it’s the first bike worthy of an ‘RR’ designation from our manufacturing unit,” says the corporate’s CEO and namesake, Markus Krämer.
For him, and the entire Krämer staff, the GP2-890RR represents a giant step up. It coincides with the corporate’s tenth birthday, their transfer to a headquarters that’s 3 times greater than their earlier website, and their intention to develop their seller community.
“If I needed to boil down our entire narrative, it’s that we’re an organization that’s having that huge second in time proper now the place we go to the following stage,” Jensen provides. “The GP2-890RR is a little bit of a celebration of that truth, and marks that transition level.”
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