The rider would sit in a car type seat with a four point seat belt and adopt a feet forward posture.
Motorcycle with a roof bmw c1 price.
Offered in europe between 2000 2002 the c1 was a city scooter with its own roof.
The c1 was so safe in fact that many countries granted bmw s request that c1 riders be exempt from national helmet requirements.
The c 650 gt c 650 sport c 400 x and c 400 gt plus the c evolution electric scooter which has not yet been imported to australia.
Back in the 2000s bmw motorrad used to offer a very obscure model called the c1.
While other roofed bikes have either not reached production or have offered nothing more than a bit of protection against the rain the c1 was a bold effort to make a motorcycle with a car style safety cage.
Although remembered today as a short lived bizarre looking dead end the c1 offered in 125cc and 176cc 200 forms was bmw s best selling two wheeler in the uk from 2001 until it was.
The bmw c1 s 4k price tag it dropped by 600.
The bmw c1 is an enclosed scooter manufactured by bertone for bmw.
Both the uk and sweden however declined to exempt c1 riders.
The roof featured a windshield with a wiper behind was an integrated top box storage compartment.
Compared to a conventional scooter the c1 offered extra safety features and protection from the elements.
Never got the c1 scooter but if you ve been.
Presumably bmw is hoping that its development of a new roofed two wheel design will take significantly less time for wide scale adoption.
It was crash tested and in some countries was exempt from helmet laws as a result not in the uk though.
The patent describes how the modular design could allow bmw to easily produce different versions of the scooter with or without roof unit.
The german company currently has five scooters.
A motorcycle with a roof that doubles as accident protection mcn reviews the bmw c1 125 plus specs and owner ratings.
Within the structure was a full bucket seat with 4 point seatbelt for the rider.