BMW R 1150 GS Adventure versus Zero SR/S
BMW R 1150 GS Adventure
Zero SR/S
Year of construction / RRP / Test report
- Comfort
- Processing
- Off-road capability
- Service
- Incredible torque
- Driving precision
- Comfort
- High weight
- Price
- Reach
Dimensions & Weight
Length : 2.180 mm
Seat : 900 mm
Weight : 287 (max: 460 ) kg
Seat : 787 mm
Weight : 229 (max: 460 ) kg
Engine
Displacement: 1.130 ccm
Hub: 71 mm
Hole: 101 mm
Cooling: Öl-Luft
Drive: Kardan
Aisles: 6
Cooling: luftgekühlt
Drive: Kupplungsfreier Direktantrieb, Riemen
Aisles: 0
Performance
Performance: 85 HP at 6.750 U/Min
Torque: 98 NM bei 5.250 U/Min Tank contents: 22 Litre
Consumption: 5 l
Performance: 110 HP at 5.000 U/Min
Torque: 190 NM bei 0 U/Min
Reach: 157 km
Chassis
Tubular space frame (steel) Front suspension:
Telelever (travel 210 mm) Rear suspension:
Central strut (travel 220 mm)
Rear suspension:
Paralever single-arm swingarm Tyres at the front: 110/80 B 19 TL
Rear tyres: 150/70 H 17 TL
Showa upside-down fork 43 mm (travel 120 mm) Rear suspension:
Showa gas pressure shock absorber (travel 140 mm)
Rear suspension:
Two-arm swingarm Tyres at the front: 120/70-17
Rear tyres: 180/55-17
Brakes
Double disc brakes (∅ 305 mm) Rear brake
Single disc (∅ 276 mm)
Double disc, four-piston radial calipers by J. Juan (∅ 320 mm) Rear brake
Single disc, single-piston floating caliper by J. Juan (∅ 240 mm)
Cheap never, well mostly
MW driving has never been a particularly cheap pleasure. Although many specimens are around 20 years old and have collected correspondingly many kilometers, these GS are still not a bargain. It must be at least 5,000 euros, top-maintained specimens like our test bike like to scratch at the five-digit. You can understand this: The BMW R 1150 GS, if you don't catch a rocked-out model, is an almost ideal companion for the very big tour.
If you can do without cornering and agility, the GS is the ideal travel moped, where the road can be three steps below perfect.
As I said, a buddy for the good and the bad days.
Future yes - but now?
Hardly ever has a motorcycle polarized as polarised as this Zero. This applies to our test team, but also to our readers. If you don't believe it, you should delve into the comments in our test video. But it is not polarizing because it is good or bad. This can be easily clarified: the Zero is good.
Good to very good even, but this only applies to an electrically driven motorcycle. This is it, with all the advantages and the disadvantages already mentioned. And: it is our future. That is certain.
What everyone has to decide for themselves is whether they will bring the future to their home now.
The test bike was provided to us by Tecius & Reimers in Hamburg.
