We rode into the Melaka city centre on a couple of occasions and we were thankful for the bike’s torque and upright sitting position. Treating it as a sportbike is just wrong. The bike is made for relaxed and unrushed riding. However, if blasting corners is your game, the base r nine T is the better option with its sport-oriented suspension.īut that doesn’t mean the r nine T Scrambler is bad. You can hard-flick the bike but without the chassis complaining, though. The “relaxed” chassis geometry requires you to trace graceful long arcs through corners. Handling is commendable although it could benefit with some more suspension tuning, as it felt a little harsh over sharp bumps. It soon became addictive as the exhausts sing “the Boxer rumble” when you grab fistfuls of throttle at corner exits. Here, the wave of torque accelerates you from corner to corner in a quick yet smooth fashion.
You could keep it in 6 th gear all the way down to 60 km/h, and a twist of the throttle would have the bike roaring back up to speed in a hurry.īut it’s on country roads where the bike comes into its own.
Instead, it’s big torque should be put to great use to cruise and overtake other vehicles with ease. The r nine T Scrambler doesn’t like being rushed during highway rides. However, the Akrapovic pipes on this one this one sure had plenty of bark, which sounded a lot like a group of piston-engine fighter planes when mixed with other r nine Ts. Out on the highway, the bike drones along at 110 – 140 km/h, with a soft rumble accompanying us. The ride consisted of a good mix of highway, trunk road and urban riding, giving us a good taste of the r nine T Scrambler’s capabilities and versatility. (I was extra careful with the bike, I swear.) It is covered in signatures of BMW motorcycle owners. This r nine T Scrambler was extra special, by the way, as it wears the BMW Motorrad Community fuel tank. We have since tested almost every variant of the r nine T including the (base) r nine T, r nine T Racer, and r nine T Urban G/S, but this time, BMW Motorrad Malaysia extended an r nine T Scrambler for the ride to the recent Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2018 in Melaka.Īuto Bavaria Motorrad BMW r nine T Ride to Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride Melaka 2018 The standout feature of the Scrambler among the r nine T line-up is the high-mounted dual exhaust pipe tips. It produces 110 bhp and a huge 116 Nm of torque.Īs with all BMW Boxers, power is sent through a six-speed transmission and a Paralever-controlled driveshaft on its way to the back wheel. The bike is powered by the previous generation BMW oil-cooled, horizontally-opposed Twin “Boxer.” The engine is the common platform which the r nine T range is built around. Customers can opt for tubeless spoked-wheels. The r nine T Scrambler is meant for light off-roading fun, and thereby wears a 19-inch front wheel. The BMW r nine T Scrambler was introduced in 2016, on the other hand, to offer buyers a scrambler option from other manufacturers. BMW has been steadily adding new variants to the r ninet T heritage line-up since its introduction in 2013.
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