The history of BMW motorcycles dates back to 1921 when the company began producing engines for other companies. BMW (Bayerishe Motoren Werke) started out his first bike to R32 in 1923. Currently, the manufacture of motorcycles, the company under the BMW motorcycle.
In 1916, in possession of both companies Flugzenmaschinenfabrik (an aircraft factory) by Gustav Otto and Karl Rapp form airframes Germany had joined the company Bavarian aircraft plants. First, he makes aircraft engines and was later renamed Bayerische Motoren Werke Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) by Max Friz and Karl Rapp in 1917. Your logo contains a medallion, representing an airplane propeller was in a blue sky, and is popular today to BMW vehicles.
The Air Force funded German BMW manufacturing Fokker DV II, which was the best aircraft of the day. But at the end of World War I in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed, and Germany was forbidden to make airplanes. Reluctantly turned the head of the company's designer Max Friz engines of automobiles and motorcycles make to keep the company afloat. More importantly, he designed the two-cylinder boxer engine, which is better known as "Boxer" engine today. The M2B15 his first boxer-engine Douglas took the British design, the BMW was a moderate success. A successful version was followed shortly thereafter by a light metal cylinder head.
In 1923, the R32, the first BMW motorcycle was produced. With aluminium-alloy cylinder heads, engine lubrication system is a recirculating wet cooling systems swamp was a feature very advanced for its time. This system was used by BMW to 1969, and the R32 has been the basis for future boxer powered motorcycles. He also had a drive shaft, which retained until the F650 was introduced in 1994, was - the F650 series has no shaft.
In 1935, BMW launched the first bike with suspension fork. In 1937 Ernst Hene set a world record that 14 years was riding 500cc OHC supercharged BMW 173.88MPH. Ernst unfortunately died in 2005 at the age of a hundred.
BMW lay in ruins until the end of World War II. Surrender of Germany, the company from motorcycles later banned, and his top engineers were taken to Russia and the United States for their labour in the production of engines produced by BMW continues, during the war. After the ban was lifted, he had to start from scratch, and engineers have the pre-war motorcycles can be used as the basis of their designs. In 1948, the first war of the post-cycle engine from BMW, and exceeded 17,000 units in 1950.
The BMW R68 motorcycle racing was in 1951 and launched in 1954, 30,000 motorcycles. In 1957 he declined to 5,500 or less, and it exports eighty-five percent of the boxer twin powered motorcycles in the late 1950s, the United States. From 1960 to 1984 BMW was in financial trouble if they regularly introduced single-cylinder models offer the latest in the series ie, R27 in 1960. During this time, however, a number of high-boxer twins have been produced, including a model that many consider one of the great classics of modernity - the R90S.
In 1983, BMW launched a water-cooled 1000cc, four cylinders, K100 in Europe, which was introduced in the United States the following year. The demand for his boxer never wavered, and so he sat on models of the boxer to make. In 1985 he led a 750cc three-cylinder version of a four-cylinder, which was smoother. In 1987 R100RT motorcycle sport boxer engine was again started with the single-lever rear suspension. In 1989, the K1, a sports motorcycle was introduced K100 basis. ABS was introduced in 1988 and became the standard for all models of BMW motorcycles K. The F650 was introduced in 1994.
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