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<blockquote data-quote="beemerdons" data-source="post: 339082" data-attributes="member: 4296"><p>wfooshee: I have been to the BMW Museum and Factory in Munich a number of times. And in 1999 I asked a Bavarian BMW engineer what the purpose of the duckbill was. He gave me a long winded explanation that it provides aerodynamic downthrust and stability, plus directs incoming air to the oil cooler radiator; which indeed is at the end of the duckbill snout.</p><p></p><p>However, the reason that I asked the question is that just months before flying to Europe I was riding the West Side Highway in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The WSH is a dirt track that runs from interior San Ignacio along the Pacific Ocean shoreline to La Purisima. Just north of San Juanico I crashed at about forty per in a sand wash and snapped off the duckbill.</p><p></p><p>I was starting to bungee the broken off duckbill to my back seat, when I noticed how much better my R1100GS looked without it. There is still my broken duckbill leaning against a boojum cactus in Baja, and my R11GS runs just fine without it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beemerdons, post: 339082, member: 4296"] wfooshee: I have been to the BMW Museum and Factory in Munich a number of times. And in 1999 I asked a Bavarian BMW engineer what the purpose of the duckbill was. He gave me a long winded explanation that it provides aerodynamic downthrust and stability, plus directs incoming air to the oil cooler radiator; which indeed is at the end of the duckbill snout. However, the reason that I asked the question is that just months before flying to Europe I was riding the West Side Highway in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The WSH is a dirt track that runs from interior San Ignacio along the Pacific Ocean shoreline to La Purisima. Just north of San Juanico I crashed at about forty per in a sand wash and snapped off the duckbill. I was starting to bungee the broken off duckbill to my back seat, when I noticed how much better my R1100GS looked without it. There is still my broken duckbill leaning against a boojum cactus in Baja, and my R11GS runs just fine without it! [/QUOTE]
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