Photos: building the BMW Concept 6

Look at the BMW Concept 6 as a concept bike and you’ll be disappointed. It appears to be little more than a K1300R chassis skinned to look more swoopy and a bunch of generic “future” in the form of plastic add-ons. But that’s not the point, it was built for one reason only: to show off BMW’s new six-cylinder engine. Here’s photos showing what it takes to cobble together a concept around an engine in what appears to have been a relatively short time frame. 

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