‘The new BMW straight-six will added aggrandize the K-Series in the accountable future. The aboriginal archetypal to be alien will be an avant-garde and comfortable BMW touring machine,’ says a columnist absolution from BMW.
According to BMW, their new straight-six agent for the K-Series has been distinctively advised for motorcycles and will be alone hardly added than a accepted large-capacity four-cylinder engine. ‘The abridgement in amplitude is accomplished in accurate by the hardly over-square bore:stroke arrangement with almost continued achievement and actual baby gaps amid cylinders,’ says the BMW columnist release. ‘Designed and laid out as a straight-six, the agent additionally opens up new ambit in motorcycling in agreement of supremacy, ability reserves, achievement and active refinement,’ it adds.
The BMW straight-six for motorcycles will displace about 1.6-litres, will accept a torque achievement of 130Nm and ability that would be almost agnate to that of BMW’s 1.3-litre four-cylinder engines. ‘Fuel burning of this six-cylinder agent is lower than that of a commensurable four-cylinder agent beneath accustomed touring conditions. The use of ride-by-wire tech offers added abeyant for added ammunition abridgement and benumbed dynamics throughout a advanced ambit of altered benumbed modes and conditions,’ says the BMW columnist release.
According to BMW, the Concept 6 has been advised to attending like a café-racer and appearance high-tech, cutting-edge anatomy and abeyance technologies – ablaze admixture arch anatomy and Duolever / Paralever accoutrements captivation and allegorical the auto advanced and rear. ‘Seventeen-inch artificial auto as able-bodied as the extra-large anchor arrangement with its six-piston anchored callipers emphasise the antic attending of the new apparatus and its aerial akin of technology,’ affirmation BMW.
We charge say BMW accept appear out with article of a shocker with their Concept 6, and the actuality that it’s slated for assembly – rather than actuality a absurd appearance bike – makes it alike added amazing. Stay acquainted for added capacity on this machine! Six-cylinder engines are appealing attenuate in the apple of bikes, acutely due to packaging issues. If installed inline, it would either be too advanced or too continued to fit a bike anatomy properly. So we see V6 and boxer formats for 6 cylinders in bikes added generally than an inline installation. Honda has fabricated both boxer-6 and inline-6 bike engines before, installed in the Goldwing and the CBX respectively.
Though the actual accepted 320i actuality has a four-pot, BMW cars are actual abundant acclaimed for their cottony bland inline-6 engines. BMW is now aggravating to accompany inline-6 into bikes in a big way, as according to them it is the packaging issues that accept prevented the butt architecture from absolutely activity anywhere back installed in a bike, whether in a assembly archetypal or in motorcycle racing.
The engine’s architecture uses failing abstracts in as abounding areas as accessible in adjustment to accumulate the agent almost light. Some weight-reduction techniques accommodate hollow-drilled camshafts and ablaze conrods. The engine’s inline-6 agreement does not crave the use of a antithesis shaft. The block uses dry sump lubrication, allowance lower the agent accession position. Like inline-4 installed in the BMW K 1300 series, the agent is agee advanced by 55 degrees for a lower centermost of force and bigger weight balance. The bend angle additionally allows added amplitude for the aerodynamically-positioned assimilation manifold.
And now for some numbers. The inline-6 has 1.6 liters of displacement and can aftermath 130Nm of torque from aloof 2,000rpm. It revs up to about 9,000rpm. Attending afterwards the jump for photos of the Concept 6.
