Did you know that Chris used to race! We were invited by his old team to ride their BSB BMW Superstock bike, so we thought we'd take a road S1000RR for a head to head. #bwm #roadbike #trackbike
Great video Chris. Now that I have gotten older I’m impressed by the technology leaps motorcycles have gone through. Can’t wait to try out the new bmw s1000rr myself to be honest.
Best. Re-union. EVER! 😍 Blyton... possibly one of the best kept racing secrets in Yorkshire (not anymore, maybe! 😆), despite being the home of Ginetta - what made y'all choose this venue?
Sadly we never got a completely fair lap comparison as we were plagued with damp patches and red flags. Superstock bike was a couple of seconds quicker from the data we had, but definitely some wind and wet biasing that.
Got an X-Spirit 3 now to replace the NXR. NXR has been a great road lid, but chin bar feels a little close at higher speeds on track, X-Spirit is much nicer there.
You are allowed and able to tweak the throttle curves within preset values to effectively reduce the torque, which this bike used to control the response in the first three gears.
@@chrisnorthover7582 Apologies for the _very_ late reply. Thank you very much for answering my question. So much variable code in the electronics I've no idea how governing bodies/scrutineers regulate it. In the top racing categories the folks running the show need to be more intelligent than the racing engineers :/
Think that's with a remap - the point Jacko was making was that you could achieve that power without having to take the motor apart and do superstock-legal fettling...
10:57 well you kind of have to remember that bikes are more limited by dimensions than actual power. there's just so much power that you can put down without flipping over. you can see all the 220+hp tuned bmws struggle to keep the nose down even in 6th so we are already pretty much att the limit of power for the first at least 125mph-140mph. for bikes power is more about moving the performance up in the speed range. adding power just makes it go faster in the top range not in the bottom as that's already pretty much caped power wise. only electronics and clever aero can make you get more power
