BMW has taken wraps off a very futuristic design, something straight out of a Hollywood fantasy film. There’s no better way of saying this, it is a hover bike. After the flying car we reported about last week, now comes a flying bike, well sort of! It takes inspiration from the Lego version of the BMW R 1200 GS Adventure. A concept at this stage, the hover BMW Hover Ride would be a charm if it could be brought into the real world. “BMW JUNIOR Company creates futuristic LEGO Technic model as a life-size reproduction,” this is a snippet from a press release from the German automaker. The full story behind it is a bit less complicated.
BMW had sent a R1200GS over to Lego Technic so as to have a model of it created. What Lego did was that it took the parts and created a futuristic flying bike design, which was much appreciated by BMW. t took the same Lego design and built a life-size model of the motorcycle, which in effect is meant to hover. It has been called R1200GS ‘Hover Ride Design Concept’.
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One can purchase a Lego Technic kit that comprises of 603 parts with which a road-going BMW R 1200 GS Adventure can be created, however now something even nicer can be built with the same bits from the kit – hover bike. The life-size design can be built with the parts of the 1200 GS Adventure. The hover bike was built by the students from the BMW Junior Company Munich. Some parts had to be created specially, such as the front wheel rim, which would serve a propeller.
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The only one ever built, the hover motorcycle will be showcased at Lego World in Copenhagen before it heads to Denmark and finally to Munich.