You’re looking at the insides of the BMW S1000RR engine. That’s the bike BMW runs in the Superbike World Championship. At the time that still was captured the engine was running at maximum revs, which happens to be 14,200rpm.
If you’d like to see what that looks and sounds like, check out the clip after the jump. While you’re watching the clip contemplate for a moment what it would be like to have 144kW powering a 204kg bike. Brutal?
[via Jalopnik | Thanks to Adam for the tip]
5 replies on “This is what 14,200rpm looks like”
Finally, a bike related post on Ausmotive! 😛
Pfft, this is the second one, haha.
You even commented on the last one.
http://www.ausmotive.com/2009/07/26/nick-heidfeld-and-troy-corser-swap-rides.html
Ha – the valve springs down look like they are even moving.
Must be pretty impressive valve springs to not get any valve float at such high rpm!
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