Dealer Principal Sales Sales Business Service Parts and Administration General Manager New Used Manager Accessories Motorcycles Motorcycles (F&I) For use within the Source: Web site: Order No.: FF/2002 BMW Organization only. Byron Ellis www.bmwusacycles.com To order call: 1-609-409-2737 Date of issue: October 2001 1-201-307-3582 Fax: 1-609-409-5699 Fast Facts Motorcycles Motorcycle Fast Facts 2002 Background Page How to use the Fast Facts Handbook 2 The BMW heritage & brand values 5 BMW, the award-winner 7 BMW features 9 F Series Singularly superb 26 Key features 28 Specifications 34 R Series Continuing a leading edge tradition 38 Key features 42 Specific features by model 45 Specifications 64 K Series Ultimate in four-cylinder touring 76 Key features 78 Specific features by model 82 Specifications 90 Price comparison 96 BMW automobiles and SAVs 98 Standard warranties 101 © 2002, BMW of North America, LLC. The BMW mark and logo are registered. No reproduction of these materials is permitted without the prior written consent of BMW of North America, LLC. Use of these materials is restricted to BMW NA employees, authorized BMW Centers and their employees. Published by BMW of North America, LLC., Professional Development Dept. solely as an information sales aid for BMW Center Client Advisors. By publication of this information, BMW of North America does not create any warranty either expressed or implied as to BMW products. BMW employees, representatives or agents shall not be held liable for any omission of data or inclusion of any erroneous data. All vehicle specifications and features subject to change without notice. Printed on recycled paper 1 BMW for 2002: How to use the Fast Facts Handbook Background The past decade has seen Also significant, BMW’s motorcy- enormous changes in BMW cles have consistently won the motorcycles, just as it has in hearts of the motorcycling press – motorcycling in general. Yet while a notoriously tough group to other makers have seemingly please. Beginning with the original chased a single-minded goal of 1994 R 1100 RS, the R259 Boxers greater horsepower, BMW has have garnered a bevy of “Best never lost sight of its core values, of” and “Bike of the Year” awards matching higher performance with from the U.S. press, both inside similar improvements in reliability, and outside of motorcycling. The sophistication, and its traditional latest generation R Series – the emphasis on what could be called R 1150 GS as well as the R 1150 RT “livability” – a BMW’s inherent and “naked” R 1150 R – have capacity to please its owner for extended this string. For a more both the short term and the long complete listing of recent awards haul. While other makers seek to won by BMW motorcycles, see satisfy those riders who live for the page 7. Sunday ride, BMW builds bikes The R259 Boxers have also for the other six days of the week, provided BMW entrée into other and believes that chasing horizons segments. 1998 saw the company’s can be as much fun as tilting them. first foray into the cruiser market, The rightness of this thinking is and the original R 1200 C has obvious from the success of the since spawned a complete line of current lineup of BMW motorcy- cruisers with the Euro, Montana cles. 2000 sales climbed to nearly and Phoenix. 1999’s all-new 75,000 motorcycles worldwide, K 1200 LT brought the luxury with the United States taking a touring concept to an entirely new record 12,047 bikes. In addition, level and quickly rose to become the past year saw total motorcycle not only BMW’s best-seller but production at BMW’s Berlin plant – motorcycling’s best-selling built in 1967 – pass the 1 million heavyweight tourer. Similarly, the mark, a remarkable figure given original F 650 represented the the exclusivity and premium first entry-level BMW in years, positioning of its products. but its replacement F 650 GS 2 Background expands that appeal as the first tourer. As before, the standard true lightweight adventure-tourer, GS is joined by the limited- bringing such leading edge production F 650 GS Dakar, with features as three-way catalytic specific changes to make it even converter, Motronic engine more off-road capable. management and antilock brakes R Series – The list of second- to an all-new class. The F 650 GS generation R259 Boxer-twins takes its place alongside a expands to include three new thoroughly updated R 1150 GS, models for 2002: the R 1150 R, which continues as the world R 1150 RT and R 1150 RS. All benchmark heavyweight three include a complete update adventure-touring motorcycle. with a new displacement, fresh- This year, BMW’s expanded ened styling, a revised chassis, lineup represents the most six-speed transmission, EVOlution sophisticated two-wheel offerings brakes and Integral ABS as either in the world, bridging the world standard or optional equipment. of motorcycling with 12 models: These three 1150s join the F Series – ABS becomes available R 1150 GS as the most up-to-date on the Dakar version of BMW’s twins on the market. Returning lightweight for 2002, putting it on this year is a quartet of cruisers, par with the standard F 650 GS. beginning with the original Otherwise, the single returns R 1200 C, and including the basically unchanged this year. dark-themed Euro, solo-oriented Motronic fuel-injection, a three-way Phoenix and touring-oriented catalytic converter and its innov- Montana. Completing the Boxer ative underseat fuel tank ensure lineup, the 98-horsepower the GS remains ahead of anything R 1100 S also adds the EVOlution else in its class. Unique styling, a brakes as standard equipment. sophisticated chassis and a host K Series – The company’s most of practical options make this powerful motorcycle, the 130-hp superlative adventure-touring K 1200 RS, now offers sportier single even more versatile than suspension tuning as well as before, as an across-town standard Integral antilock as commuter or cross-continent standard equipment. A mild facelift 3 BMW for 2002: How to use the Fast Facts Handbook Background distinguishes it from its prede- All information in the 2002 Fast cessors, while a new upper Facts book is brief, and meant fairing, larger windscreen, for quick reference only. It covers repositioned footpegs and cruise the following areas: control improve long-distance Background comfort. The new RS is joined by • The BMW heritage and brand BMW’s hugely successful values K 1200 LT, the most luxurious • BMW in America full-dress tourer ever offered. This • BMW awards year the LT is available in two BMW features trim levels, Standard or Custom, • This is the heart of the Fast but either represents luxury Facts Handbook, covering touring at the highest level. basic descriptions of major This model year 2002 edition of technical features, with expla- BMW Fast Facts covers the entire nations of their design and range of BMW motorcycles, function. It includes series placing a concise description of breakdowns with a model-by- the BMW lineup and features at model description of each BMW your fingertips. It’s designed to motorcycle, its standard features give you information about the and popular options. F Series, R Series and K Series Warranty motorcycles, and their features • The BMW warranty and options. In addition, warranty • BMW Roadside assistance information and competitive Competitive Price Comparison pricing is included, as well as Includes a listing of all street general background on BMW. models sold in the U.S. over $7,000. Arranged in increasing order, the price ladder shows where BMWs fall in comparison with the competition. 4 The BMW heritage and brand values Background As Europe’s oldest existing Just being European implies motorcycle manufacturer, BMW elements of tradition, of a special has a history that goes back to human-machine relationship. 1916, as a purveyor of world- Being German means BMWs record altitude aircraft engines, are developed in an environment the basis for the white-blue where workmanship is virtually “spinning propeller” that is the an obsession. These are motor- BMW Roundel. cycles designed for the rigors of In 1923, a talented designer the Autobahn’s unlimited speed, named Max Friz introduced the for traversing the nearby Alpine company’s first motorcycle, the passes with surefooted confidence R 32. The bike immediately and unsurpassed weather established BMW as a maker of protection. These factors alone high quality, innovative and set BMW apart from many of its practical motorcycles. With its competitors – including those twin-cylinder, horizontally opposed who attempt to graft a European engine and shaft drive, the R 32 image into products whose also set a pattern for BMW heritage is not European. motorcycles still reflected in But BMWs are not merely Euro- today’s R259 Boxers. pean, or just German. They are Six years later the company Bavarian. In Bavaria there’s a introduced its first automobile, certain joy of living that must be and quickly established itself as a experienced to be fully under- maker of high quality, innovative stood. Bavaria is in the south of automobiles as well. Within a Germany; those who know it decade, a string of motorcycle best say it combines German and automotive race wins and perfectionism with the more world speed records gave the outgoing spirit of Italy. young company an enviable No wonder then, that the tradi- standing as a maker of excep- tional BMW slogan is Freude am tional high-performance motor- Fahren – ”Joy in Driving.” The cycles and cars. Each succeeding creators of BMW express this joy generation has elevated this in quality of construction, perfor- reputation to new heights.