For example, the alternator has been lightened and magnesium covers hide the starter and alternator. As such it is aptly targeted as a dual-sport, or in BMW's eyes a "genuine scrambler." How the engine on the G650 bikes differs from that on the F650 is in subtle refinements. Lastly, the Xcountry - probably the friendliest of the bunch - is a kind of a jack-of-all-trades. Next, the Xchallenge looks suspiciously like a dirt bike but is in fact street-legal and loosely referred to by BMW as a "hard enduro" and not a hard core motocrosser. The Xmoto - as one would expect from the name - is a supermoto machine and the most obvious of the three. Secondly, and for your edification, the "X" in the various names isn't pronounced as "X" but as "cross." It goes a little something like this: G650 X(cross)country, and so on. It will remain in the line-up at least through model-year 2007, but the F650GS Dakar has been dropped.
#Bmw 650 x moto series#
First off, the new G650 series isn't replacing the F650GS. And really, who better to do the job? Before we go much further two things need to be mentioned.
The astute single-cylinder fans out there might be asking, "Yeah, but who's building the engine?" If you're sharp enough to ask that question then you probably already have the answer. In what was probably a wise move, BMW called on Aprilia for development assitance with Aprilia also handling production. These bikes represent BMW's latest effort to broaden "its model line-up." Relying on the heritage of the F650 series engine, BMW Motorrad made a few modifications and updates to their successful four-valve DOHC fuel-injected -cooled 652cc five-speed single-cylinder to create the basic platform that is the heartbeat for the G650 Xchallenge, G650 Xmoto and G650 Xcountry. What do you get when you take one, slightly re-vamped time-tested 650cc single and multiply by X? For BMW, an equation like that results in not one, but three different and new motorcycles for 2007.
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