BMW R1300GS Sets A Record For Climbing Hills, Beats Super Motorcycles Without Extreme Modification!

JAKARTA BMW R1300GS, BMW Motorrad's flagship adventurer motor, has again proven its greatness, this time not on the usual off-road terrain, but on the track against Bouley Bay Hill Climb, England.

This bike managed to break a record that has lasted for 15 years, proving that the adventure bike can be a formidable racer with minimal modifications.

According to a MCN report, quoted on Saturday, August 30, this historic record was scored by Greg Mansell, son of F1 legend Nigel Mansell, behind the BMW R1300GS wheel. The project started with Greg's curiosity two years ago while trying to climb the Bouley Bay hill on a R1250GS motorbike. After attending the launch of R1300GS, he and his team decided to see how fast this new bike was. By simply changing the front tire to 17 inches, they almost broke the record with an almost standard motorbike.

Since then, a team from Mansell BMW has teamed up with BMW Motorrad to perfect the motor. Instead of pursuing maximum power, the main focus of modification is on chassis development. This R1300GS bike is now equipped with 17-inch front tires, customized final drives, upgraded suspensions, ECU maps from Hilltop Motorcycles, and straight-through exhausts. As a result, this motor turns into a supermoto that is overgrowned but highly agile.

Thanks to a balance-focused modification and handling, R1300GS managed to score a time of 45.13 seconds, breaking the previous record by a very thin margin, which was 0.02 seconds. Even more surprising, this bike even beat the 201 bhp-powered BMW M1000XR. Greg explained that on the uphill and aligned trails it had rough asphalt, typical GS Telelever suspensions and its low torques provided significant advantages over more powerful sports motors.

"On the race track, M1000XR will eat GS alive. But the incline here is very steep and the asphalt is very rough, so the Telelever GS and its low torque make it very fast here," Greg said.

This success is not only proof of the extraordinary performance of R1300GS, but also shows that innovation and proper development can produce championship performance, even from unexpected motorbikes.