Photo: BMW Motorrad
It took German company BMW close to a year, from the time it first hinted at a brand new motorcycle engine, to the actual unveiling the hardware, but the wait was worthwhile: at the end of last week, the Big Boxer, as Motorrad calls it, broke cover as the shiny new toy we were waiting for.
The engine has been presented before, first time on a Motorrad bike called Concept R 18 and showed at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in May 2019, and then on two private builds, but this is the first time the carmaker spills the full specs online.
The Big Boxer is a two-cylinder motorcycle engine with a capacity of 1,802 cc, making it according to BMW the “highest-capacity 2-cylinder boxer engine of all time ever used in motorcycle series production.”
Rated at 91 hp and a maximum torque of 158 Nm, the engine is also the most powerful boxer the Bavarians ever built.
The hardware has been designed to work on the bikes it will be fitted on with the help of a single-disc dry clutch that sends torque to the 6-speed transmission. No performance specs were announced yet.
For now, the bike builder did not say when the engine will enter production, but hints at what we can expect have already been shown on the two custom builds we mentioned earlier.
At the end of last year, Japanese custom motorcycle garage Custom Works Zon presented the R18 motorcycle, and in the spring of 2019, U.S.-based garage American Revival Cycles presented the Revival Birdcage.
Both use the engine BMW has kept under wraps for so long, and have turned more than their share of heads at events in Japan and the U.S.
For the mechanically-savvy among you, the full details on the Big Boxer engine can be found in the press release section below.
The Big Boxer is a two-cylinder motorcycle engine with a capacity of 1,802 cc, making it according to BMW the “highest-capacity 2-cylinder boxer engine of all time ever used in motorcycle series production.”
Rated at 91 hp and a maximum torque of 158 Nm, the engine is also the most powerful boxer the Bavarians ever built.
The hardware has been designed to work on the bikes it will be fitted on with the help of a single-disc dry clutch that sends torque to the 6-speed transmission. No performance specs were announced yet.
For now, the bike builder did not say when the engine will enter production, but hints at what we can expect have already been shown on the two custom builds we mentioned earlier.
At the end of last year, Japanese custom motorcycle garage Custom Works Zon presented the R18 motorcycle, and in the spring of 2019, U.S.-based garage American Revival Cycles presented the Revival Birdcage.
Both use the engine BMW has kept under wraps for so long, and have turned more than their share of heads at events in Japan and the U.S.
For the mechanically-savvy among you, the full details on the Big Boxer engine can be found in the press release section below.
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