2023 BMW M1000 R: A Full-Power Naked Bike

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BMW just let the Euro competition know that yes, it’s still very interested in the title of King of the Naked Bikes, and has released a new M-series model to prove that.

Here, we don’t see the usual “Detuned for street use, blah blah blah” apologies that you usually see with naked bikes descended from superbikes. Instead, it appears BMW has installed the same four-cylinder powerplant as found in the M1000 RR superbike. That means the M1000 R gets the Shiftcam engine with variable valve timing, along with many other updates the M1000 RR gets for ’23 (read more about that here). For US-market buyers, that should mean max output of 205 hp at 13,000 rpm and 83 lb-ft of torque at 11,000 rpm—all while retaining plenty of lower-end muscle, thanks to the shiftgate technology in the top end. Hoo-Rah.

Of course, the M R gets the same electronics package as the M RR; quickshifter, brake and acceleration slide control, anti-wheelie, leaning ABS, and so on.

Although it’s a naked bike, there’s a lot of plastic on there … but not a lot of carbon fiber, which would drive the price up. Photo: BMW

The M1000 R also gets winglets, which might seem a bit silly on a naked bike—but these functional bits of bodywork are very important when you’re dealing with this much horsepower. Other Euro OEMs have them on their high-end nakeds, and now BMW does too. The carbon fairing is not here, though, and the R gets forged aluminum wheels instead of the RR’s carbon-fiber wheels. When it’s all added up (or in the case of the fairing, subtracted), BMW says it weighs 439 lb wet.

It’ll cost you $21,345 at US dealers in 2023, a lot less than the RR version. For that reason, this might be the version to buy, if you don’t want to do track days—why pay for a datalogger and other race bits, if you won’t use them?

 

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