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450cc Sports Enduro public viewing
We attended the Great African GS Challenge from 25 to 28 September 2007. During this event BMW showed their new 450cc Sports Enduro
| We attended the 2007 Great African
GS Challenge. This was the fourth year it was held, and this
year the venue was on the farm Papkuilsfontein in the
pictureresc Northern Cape Province of South Africa. |
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We exhibited GS-911 at the GS Challenge. We induced a
fault on the HP2 that prevented it from starting... and challenged
anyone to take a guess what was wrong... a difficult task without the
proper diagnostic tool... reading the fault codes with GS-911 quickly showed what was wrong... |
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here's Chris drooling over the new 450. The bike was new and
unused, and draped in some of Joel Smets' old plastics... |
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of course I couldn't resist either... |
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and Deon Meyer (chief organizer of the GS Challenge) seemed quite
taken by the little beauty too... |
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here we can see one of the interesting features of the new 450...
the front sprocket is mounted on the swingarm pivot bolt, thus the
chain retains a constant length and reducing stress and strain on the
chain |
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the interesting rear shock mount |
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the clutch is also uniquely situated on the right crankshaft
end. Also shown is the Oxygen sensor, hinting at the closed loop control on this relatively small engine... |
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here we see the air intake - nice and high on the top of the right
side panel |
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