Facts and figures: BMW S1000RR vs Fireblade vs GSX-R1000 vs R1 vs ZX-10R

MCN will be riding the new BMW S1000RR at the world launch next Tuesday.

• All the latest info on the S1000RR

Chief road tester Trevor Franklin will be riding the Honda Fireblade, Suzuki GSX-R1000, Yamaha R1 and Kawasaki ZX-10R during the days before he flies out to Portimao in Portugal, so he can give the best idea of how the new BMW is going to fit into the 1000cc sportsbike hierarchy.

In the meantime, here’s how the S1000RR matches up on paper. Obviously we can’t verify BMW’s claims for power and weight, but if they’re right and the bike isn’t oddly geared then the S1000R should accelerate discernibly faster than the lardy underpowered competition.

Which would mean we have a BMW which blows a GSX-R1000 into the weeds… and who ever thought that would happen?  

	BMW S1000RR	Honda Fireblade	Suzuki GSX-R1000	Yamaha R1	Kawasaki ZX-10R
Capacity	999cc	999cc	998cc	999cc	998cc
Power	193bhp	178bhp	182bhp	185bhp	188bhp
Torque	83lbft	83lbft	84lbft	86lbft	83lbft
Seat height	820mm	820mm	835mm	810mm	830mm
Weight (wet)	204kg	199kg	206kg	205kg	208kg
Power to weight ratio	0.95 bhp/kg	0.89 bhp/kg	0.89 bhp/kg	0.90 bhp/kg	0.90 bhp/kg

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