The Final Driving Museum Hosts ‘BMW Bikes: A Century of Innovation’ Exhibit

The Final Driving Museum of the BMW CCA Basis in Greer, South Carolina, celebrates the one centesimal anniversary of BMW Motorrad with an exhibit titled “BMW Bikes: A Century of Innovation,” which runs via January 20, 2024. Over 57 uncommon and traditionally vital two- and four-wheeled motorcycle-powered automobiles are on show, taking the customer on a historic tour from the very first 1923 BMW R 32 via the most recent 2023 100 Years Version bikes.

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The exhibit highlights the world-leading technical improvements, racing victories, world data, and the pure ardour that has pushed BMW’s motorbike division to today.

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In December 1922, BMW chief designer Max Friz put the primary full-scale BMW motorbike on the drafting board. At its coronary heart was a 494 cc, 8.5 hp, air-cooled two-cylinder, four-stroke boxer engine. The primary BMW motorbike, the R 32, was unveiled in September 1923 on the German Motor Present in Berlin. Manufacturing started that very same month in an space of the BMW engine works on the sting of the Munich’s Oberwiesenfeld airfield. Simply 56 bikes had been constructed that first 12 months.  These humble beginnings of BMW motorbike manufacturing launched an unprecedented success story that has spanned a century.

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The BMW bikes on show at The Final Driving Museum embody a number of prewar singles and boxer twins, postwar road and racing machines, together with the 1938 R 51 Tremendous Sport raced by Tim Reid within the 1939 Isle of Man TT, the world championship-winning 1958 Fath Kneeler sidecar racer, and Reg Pridmore’s 1976 AMA Superbike championship-winning R 90 S, plus a world-traveling R 80 G/S and different assorted rarities from the 100-year span of BMW Motorbike historical past.

The Final Driving Museum is positioned throughout the road from BMW Plant Spartanburg, the biggest BMW Group manufacturing plant on the planet, and simply down the street from the BMW Efficiency Driving College and U.S. Rider Academy.

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The Final Driving Museum

190 Manatee Ct, Greer, SC 29651

Tel: 864-329-1919

Electronic mail: information@bmwccafoundation.org

Web site: https://theultimatedrivingmuseum.org/

Hours: Monday – Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.