BMW says it’s planning to mark the 90th anniversary of Motorrad next year by introducing a new retro bike. BMW Motorrad President Stephen Shaller said the bike will have an air-cooled ‘boxer’ engine, paying homage to the very first BMW motorcycle in 1913. Back then, the BMW R 32 provided the DNA for what would become the BMW Motorrad boxer series over nine decades. It featured an air-cooled, 2-cylinder 4-stroke ‘boxer’ engine with a longitudinally mounted crankshaft and shaft drive to the rear wheel. BMW will announce the model designation and the market launch date down the road. The bike in the sketch released by BMW may bring to mind the motorcycles of the 1960s, and BMW is joining a retro-motorcycle trend that other companies are capitalizing upon.
Looks cool.