new develpment g450x

for those who can read german

http://baboons.de/index.php?option=...it-neuem-fahrwerkskonzept&catid=76&Itemid=220





Look at the pic, what's different from what you see on youre g450x.



IN short
its a changeble frontsprocket so it is not on the swingarm anymore if you want it it can be set to more conventional setup......

why: for erzberg ,romaniacs (what the call "normal" teretory for the g450x the standard setup is perfect gives more traction(look at the results). For the normal riders in enduro this is also a good setup.

For the more advandge riders and at extreem speeds like in the WEC espacaly as the differance between low technical an very fast is very wide/big there is the more traditanal setup. You can change it the position of the front sprocket!!!!!

i dont know how, cant see it on the pic ore read it in the artikel.

There are different positons setup,s possible, so you can fine tune the bike as you want it depending on what terrain/ speed youre riding.

The winnar of the romaniacs letti and gerhard ride in normal position because there the traction is very good and more needed then high speed.
Juha and marko in the WEC ride "posseble" with the new setup.

bizar: changing front sprocket position.

Is it fotoshop or a prank/joke ore for real?

When BMW 2007 suddenly had a new competition and the off-road motorcycle world, entered it, many technological solutions that looked revolutionary: There was the "backward" spinning 450s engine, the clutch on the crankshaft was sitting. And as a chassis design that was during driving cycles on the rear wheel minimized, because the chain tension was not changed, since the pinion directly sitting on the swing pivot.

Cross-country specialist Simo Kirssi and enduro legend Anders Eriksson drove the following year with the prototype first success. Consequently, but maybe too early to come this year, driving the year of the launch of the G 450 X, the call of the BMW Board of Management with top riders of Enduro Cup at the title.

The rest is almost history: The two-time world champion David Knight in the middle of the season, threw the scraps out literally, because he could not vote on the motorcycle and his brutal style of driving. Juha Salminen was found beginning of the season not even partially on the podium.

It ran in the preparation seemingly everything is perfect: The drivers felt comfortable and fast on the BMWs. But in World Cup competition, the clocks were talking a different language. On fast special stages at the end always lacked even the smallest amount that makes up the step again in the championship victory podium.

The new factory machines in the World Cup (and also in the GCC for Simo Kirssi) you can start a new chassis concept, and no less spectacular: the engine and swing arm are no longer a unit, but - and this is the really spectacular able to change their position against each other will. Thus, the drive pinion position can be chosen freely and allows to find the best compromise for the respective drivers and their competition. This makes it possible to cover the extreme range in WEC competition between slow extreme enduro one hand and high-speed tests on the other.

This new concept will be tested in the context of elite sport use and also tested the possible bandwidth of the vote and its implications for future applications.

Meanwhile, it has at BMW with this system systematically consider relevant load-sharing and Fahrgeometrie tested parameters in all sorts of areas: from the top race on the WEC Extreme Enduro events (such as ore or Romaniacs) and sports in the customer (eg ADAC Enduro Cup). For the required driving between extremely slow and extremely fast, especially for the Cup drivers who have changed the motor position and also revised the suspension geometry data proved to be advantageous.

For "normal" range include competitive racing at Erzberg or the Romaniacs the positive features outweigh the basic concept of the series motorcycle. Lettenbichler why Andreas and Gerhard Forster also go to series basis (and advance to the 4-stroke engine in positions that would otherwise only 2 stroke-filled ....).

The concept also appears in the Enduro Championship to work: Marko Tarkkala (picture above) supplied with a fourth place his best World Cup result of the year - and the runner is, after all, that is certainly no other Nasenbohrer


Courtesy of google translate !!!

not bad for a machine translation.
But the second part of the artikel , can you do that to?

Brommer said:

not bad for a machine translation.
But the second part of the artikel , can you do that to?

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Just added it... I cant be bothered with the pictures though.