Last year, BMW's Motorrad Motorcycle Division and Lego revealed a 603-piece kit that assembled a mini version of the BMW R 1200 GS Adventure bike. But it seems that these companies aren't contented with that, so they decided to create a flying motorcycle called as the Hover Ride Design Concept.
Lego Technic sent BMW Motorrad five sets of Lego Technic BMW R 1200 GS Adventure model kit. Each kit has 603 parts and includes a Telelever suspension, a moving two-cylinder boxer engine, and a shaft drive.
BMW vehicle design head, Alexander Buckan, said in a statement, "It was a great idea and a superb creative challenge to develop a fictitious model from the parts of the Lego Technic BMW R 1200 GS Adventure set. Our concept not only incorporates the BMW Motorrad design DNA with typical elements such as the boxer engine and the characteristic GS silhouette, it also draws on the Lego Technic stylistic idiom."
The automaker's design department maintains a team they call the BMW Junior Company, for young designers working to perfect their talents before hitting the big leagues. Trainees from the second, third and fourth year of their courses utilized the pieces of a full-size production R1200 GS Adventure to create a life-sized model of the Lego Hover Bike.
The designers were so inspired by the Lego Hover Ride model that they decided to build one. But unfortunately, they couldn't make it fly.
A few parts of the bike have been repurposed for life in the air; front wheel has been created into a propeller, while the boxer engine remains the same. There's no information yet on what would be powering the Hover Ride Design Concept, not any detail about would make it fly.
The new full-size model of the Hover Ride Concept first appeared at the Lego World in Copenhagen a few days ago. The company said that it would make additional appearances in Europe sites like the BMW Group Research and Innovation Center Munich and the BMW Welt Museum.
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