Sunday, October 19, 2008

AC Schnitzer for BMW Motorcycles


If you are an automobile enthusiast, you have probably heard of the AC Schnitzer tuner company located in Germany. You also likely have heard that AC Schnitzer specializes in the tuning of BMW automobiles. Did you know that AC Schnitzer also tunes BMW motorcycles? It has since 2000.

Of course, in Europe, there is a bigger market for tuned BMW motorcycles. As motorcycles become more popular here in the United States, of course, that could change. AC Schnitzer addresses performance, cosmetics and ergonomics with alternate bars, pegs, exhaust pipes, body panels and wheels.

Sometimes, AC Schnitzer will take parts from one BMW and bolt them onto another. The R1200R pictured at the top of this article, for instance, features the headlights from the K1200R, which are much more powerful and incorporate a bikini fairing. AC Schnitzer has the same reputation for attention to detail on BMW motorcycles that it has in the automotive field.

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