2025 BMW M 1000 RR Quick Ride Review | Barber Motorsports Park Track Test

Hey everybody, welcome to Barber Motorsports Park, and what you see behind me is the BMW M1000RR. Now, I realize I'm making this quick ride video because we don't even have any content on over the M1000RR. And that's a shame, because that's a really, really cool motorcycle that we should be covering. So, here we are. Like I said at the top of this, this is not a full review of the bike. just a quick review of the bike because I did have a chance to spin a couple of laps on it. There's way too many features and things on this bike to make a full full full review on right now because I rode many many many bikes today but as an overview of what the M1000RR has to offer that's what I'm gonna provide here. So you probably know a lot about this bike already nothing new necessarily but like i said we haven't done anything on it recently or at all so we're here to change that but m1000rr is a beast of a motorcycle so let's take a closer look on the m1000rr and see what makes it a double r alrighty so here is the m1000rr bmw's flagship leader class sport bike that they use to compete in moto america world superbike and everywhere there is a superbike championship to be had this is the bike that bmw is using to compete in it it is one hell of a bike there's a lot to talk about i'm gonna forget a lot of it but i'll do my best to cover what i can so we are here at one of nate kern's double r fests here at Barber Motorsports Park. This is one of the staff bikes, but it's also a bone stock M1000RR provided by BMW. Let's do a little walk around, shall we? And where else should we start? At the front, because check out those wings. Holy moly. You want some downforce? You've got some downforce right there. That's big, y'all. Here's my hand for scale. That's a big wing. As we look into the nose section you'll see the intake for the ram air as we move down you'll see the big old brakes and you'll see the duct work to cool down those brakes as well carbon wheels because this is an m model of the highest level you've got the M brand, M M excuse me, M branded blue brake calipers, the beefy cooling system over there for the 1000cc, oh sorry, 999cc inline 4 hidden behind these fairings, reported to make about 200-ish horsepower. You've got, you have got this giant and constricting exhaust system, but it's needed to make the sniff test happy and the emissions test people happy but let's check out some cool trick bits on this bike you've got adjustable foot pegs right there check out the adjustability on that guy different positions six different positions you could put them at for your preference so that's pretty cool and um yeah carbon rear wheel the underslung rear brake caliper um all trick bits you have the suspension there all analog stuff as a track bike should be from this side of things you've got you have got the quick shifter up and down right there that works in works really well in BMW's four-cylinder machine here and then on the business end you've got a lot to look at so as we flip the key as we flip the key and check out what this bike has to offer well yeah there's a lot of settings to go through most of which you can go through with this thumb wheel the traction control settings are on a dedicated button the menus will get you through a bunch of different stuff again this is a quick ride not a thorough review so keep that in mind the forks are adjustable preload is also adjustable on this on this fork i love the fact you have heated grips you can change the modes here and the starter button is there. And with that, let's start this bike. Yeah, that's the stock exhaust too. So yeah, in a nutshell, the M1000, and I've definitely missed a lot of features, but there's just way too much to cover in a quick little overview. So my thoughts on the M1000RR. Well, it's a beast. It is a beast of a motorcycle. The power is very, very strong. But it's actually, for a 200 plus horsepower bike, very easy to manage if you know what you're doing. You got to respect the throttle, got to respect the power. But yeah, it's impressive how quickly that bike will go. Carbon wheels, thing changes directions so fast so easily the thing i had trouble with on this bike is that second gear lull because of these are stock bikes that have to meet the EPA requirements it's no secret these bikes have a second gear lull in the power band because that's where they dumbed it down to meet those carb requirements EPA requirements all that stuff the Euro 5 compliance all that you can look all the internet for flash ECU flashes for this bike and it gets rid of that and the bike transforms into something just incredible so um no secret there but yeah it's what you expect in a flagship superbike right i mean the brakes are crazy strong the power is crazy strong but manageable it's an easy bike to ride fast which this thing has no business being can i tell if the wings are working No, I don't think I'm good enough to tell if those wings are really doing anything but if nothing else there is a mental advantage there because those wings are so enormous you can tell yourself they're working and uh hey that makes you go faster. Cool. I'm really impressed by the front end feel of that bike. I made no changes to the bike and we've been swapping bikes between people all day long and so this was not set for anybody in particular just a general setting for a bunch of different people and a bunch of different skill sets and that front tire felt really really good like i was a fan so maybe that winglet maybe the winglets are working who knows um yeah the shifting really really smooth in fact maybe too smooth sometimes it was hard for me to really tell if it was clicking up a gear or down a gear i have to look at the gear indicator to see if it was working or not and i could see that the numbers would change so yeah it was it was working i can see why it's a popular bike for super bike racing because uh i think all the bikes in this class are really freaking good so that's a impressive machine capable of doing a whole lot we were riding on Pirelli SC3 tires so not the stickiest things in the world but very consistent and very predictable and when this bike was starting to chew through those tires it would tell you hey man tone it down a bit because i don't have much left we're about to reach the limits of grip here and so the communication between tire and throttle and chassis was really really nice my time with the bike was pretty short so i'm not going to pretend i know everything about the bike i put it in the most powerful power setting because my time was pretty limited and yeah it's fast what you expect now so i'm going to take some more time in my written review over on motorcycle.com so go over there to check out my full written review that's going to be a little bit more thorough a little bit more thought out but thanks for watching like subscribe all that good stuff click the whatever buttons you're supposed to click to make this thing appear higher on the rankings and i appreciate it i do so thanks again for watching be sure to head to mo one more time read my written review there and as always ride safe and we'll see you later