In this solo walk‑around video Dr. Chris Stout gives a detailed visual and verbal tour of his 2022 BMW R nineT equipped with the factory Option 719 package. He begins by outlining the engine architecture—a 1170 cc air‑and‑oil‑cooled boxer with dual overhead cams, shaft drive, and a top‑speed limiter at 125 mph—followed by performance figures (0‑62 mph in ~3.2 s) and weight (dry 487 lb). He describes the bike’s braking system (dual 320 mm front Brembo discs, four‑piston calipers, single rear 265 mm disc), the optional wire‑spoke 17‑inch wheels, and the Akrapovič exhaust. The review then moves to the unique three‑piece frame that incorporates the engine, the reversible front forks, and the monoshock rear suspension. Stout highlights the Option 719 aesthetic touches: hand‑painted pin‑stripes, aluminum‑finished tank, red‑black color accents, and the special seat with integrated pin‑stripe branding. He walks through the electronic suite—adaptive LED headlight, smart turn signals, emergency lights, cruise control, heated grips, and the dual‑gauge instrument cluster—demonstrating menu navigation and service‑interval reminders. Personal observations cover ride comfort (seat height, ergonomics), sound of the boxer engine, and his subjective opinion on the wire‑spoke wheels. He outlines planned modifications such as a tail‑tidy (single tail‑light/turn‑signal combo), seat‑cowling swap, and future exhaust upgrades. Throughout, Stout conveys enthusiasm for the bike’s craftsmanship, retro styling, and engineering while noting minor aesthetic preferences. The video concludes with an invitation to view detailed specs in the description and a promise of future build‑and‑tune videos.
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Foreign. Hi everyone, Chris Stout here taking a doing a walk around tour of the 2022 BMW R90et Option 719 to be going over some details and some specs in the notes at the bottom of this video. Do take a look because I've kind of detailed all the very specific kinds of things of the specs and stuff. But we'll be doing a bit of a walk around and a little bit of a demo with it. First of all it is a The engine is 1170 cubic inches, dual overhead cam, it's oil cooled, you can see the cooler there and air cooled. Sometimes people refer to them as an airhead but strictly speaking it's air and oil. There's no radiator, no liquid cooling to it has a top speed limited to 125mph and I can't remember if I already said this but dual overhead cam which is pretty cool. This actually not exactly an Easter egg but 9t in here if that will show up. And this is the asymmetrical air intake. Because it's just on the right side of the bike it does not appear it is absent on the left side of the bike. Now let's take a look at the brakes. Cross drilled dual front Brembo brakes. That is a 320 millimeter disc and four piston brembo in the back single disc cross drilled. It's 3, 265 inches and label BMW. I've heard some places it's actually just still also Brembo just labeled BMW but not sure on the specifics of that. If someone knows, put it in the comments below, that'd be great. The tank capacity is four and a half gallons and the whole weight is 487. Believe that's a dry weight. Wheels wire spoke. We'll get into those in a second. It's one of the options. 17 inch, they're 3 1/2 in the front and 17 inch diameter and 5 1/2 inch in the back. And I think what are we running? Brigstones? Our factory stock. It'll do 0 to 100 kilometers or 62 miles an hour in about 3.2 seconds which is is pretty cool. And it's got a dry clutch. So the frame also is kind of unique. I'm a Ducati guy in the past and always liked the trellis frame. This is actually a three piece frame and the engine is actually part of that too. It provides integrated structure to it. So let's get down into some of the other interesting specifics. This is for the Pinion seat. These are the foot pegs for the passenger. And I should also mention too, it's a six speed transmission. This is actually fully removable. If you want to be a little bit more bobber, look to it if you will. So this can come off. This can come off. The cowling is part of the R9T option and it comes with a separate seat. Some bikes will, will have like I had a couple of Ducatis where they had a cowling that went over the rear seat and it was all one solid seat. This is actually two separate seats, the rider seat or driver's seat and then the passenger seat. I also like just visually how this black line for the pinion comes up and then carries out this whole black and red. Also I, as I'm becoming familiar with the R19 or pardon me, the 719 is that, that is a, the special option that I got for it. So it's a beautiful aluminum finished tank. I believe a lot of this is done very much craftsperson style with hand painting of the pinstripes, etc. So just really the fit and finish is, is just really spectacular. And there's a lot of options you can get also from BMW and the factory. I should also mention that it is a shaft drive, which is kind of traditional for these bikes. And it's got the monoshock in the back. It's got reversed front forks for better performance, which is really very nice. And again, this color pattern, everything just looks fantastic. I had a 1962 BMW R69S and it had the same kind of badging for it in terms of serial numbers and stuff. So that's also really pretty cool. For 2022 they did a headlight update and I don't know if this is going to be able to show up very well, but this is another one of the Easter eggs. There's the little BMW. It says BMW there and it's got the logo for it there. I'll show you. It's an adaptive headlight. This is what it looks like. And then you also have controls over here for brights and flashing. So in this instance a lot of times I'll replace. And it's also got a courtesy light. It'll dim out after you've left the bike, which is nice. Usually I replace headlights on bikes just to have something a little bit more custom, but it's certainly not necessary here. And also too, if you can read this, it says BMW led, which is pretty cool. So it also has LED turn signals and, and in front and rear and an LED tail light. We'll just turn that back on again so you can see it and see what that looks like here. Turn on a signal. It's got smart turn signals. It also has emergency lights. The emergencies only work, though, if you are. If the engine is on. Another one of the little R9T Easter eggs is right here in the seat. The seat is wonderful. Very elegant, very sculpted, as you can see. I think it's about 31 and a half inches off the ground. I'm six foot two and can certainly flat foot. It feels very, very comfortable. And then also maybe just to point out too, this very obviously is unique to the R19 or pardon me, to the seven. Option 719. But it also, then this red gets carried out in a variety of other places here with the pinstriping and what have you. And then it also shows up right here saying option 719. The things I'm probably going to be doing to it are. Oh, I should also point out, sorry, it's got Akrapovic pipes which are very, very high end. They're pretty quiet. I could use a louder pipe, but that's certainly not going to be a. A. First things first, in terms of a few little things I'm going to do with it, I'm going to do a tail tidy, as they call it. I'm going to be getting rid of this. I've already ordered those parts. It'll have a lit license plate frame, but it'll be a single tail light, brake, light, turn signal combination that we'll tuck here under the seat. I'm also going to do in another video, taking this cowling off, swapping it out for the seat and showing how that works. Some bikes, old Ducatis I had, you would take the ignition key and it would unlock something. This actually has a specific key. I don't know if I can show you under here, but there's a spot that specific secondary key comes with to swap those seats out. Let's see. We also. This rear brake is adjustable. Front forks are also adjustable. I'll be doing just a quick little video about certain kinds of adjustments, like with the clutch and brake handles and things are very, very easy to do that. And you'll also see BMW motor rod and things and a variety of other kinds of cool places. So let's do a little step through with some of the functions when you first start the bike or actually just turn it on. You'll see and hopefully, yeah, we can get into these. So here's the controls, if you menu up it will change things on the left side. If you menu down it'll change things on the tachometer or the right gauge. Obviously analog gauges as well too. So horn turn signals, they will turn themselves off self canceling after a certain distance or speed is reached. This is cruise. No, this is cruise control. I need to double check and see what this is. And this is the emergency lights. And then this is how you can change some of the the brightness settings, high beams and stuff. This side start and stop. The modes for you can go through rain, dynamic or road. And then this also has heated grips is something I should have probably mentioned earlier. And then these are the adjustments for spring and damp on your front forks. So if you go through the menu, I'm going to be pressing the upper one here. We'll see that it's toggles through. This tells me these are trip odometers which are basically the same because I haven't reset those. And then temperature. And you can see now too, we're also set in road. This is the clock and I need to get a service. It's got a 600 mile service break in and I'm 200 miles into that. So about 400 more miles to do that. Ah, let's see is this okay? So then we can do the setup through here which I actually don't want to do. And we can go. I'm going to go over here to mode and then you'll see it'll change it from road to dynamic to rain. So I'm just going to go back and leave that on road. Now I'm going to press the lower one here and we'll look at the tachometer side. Right now it's listing voltage and also in because we're in neutral. This is our average miles per gallon. This is consumption of gallons, I guess per hour. Engine temp. This is a bar graph. If they get taller and stack up and move to the right, the warmer the engine gets. And then average speed. So just kind of depends on what you want. I tend to just leave it on temperature. I just like to keep track of that. And then this also shows us these will blink for just a short period of time until you have some distance. That for the, for your ABS and for some kind of warning indication. And in for neutral. So you'll get it here on the left side in the speedometer in green and you'll get it here in the led. I'm going to turn it off and then turn it back on. So you can see the other lights also that show here for turn signals and hazard lights and high beams. And then again it always preloads with when you have a service interval with that and then goes to whatever setting it is that you had before. And again, kind of cool to see the classic BMW logos here. Earlier bikes only had one gauge which I, I personally like having the two. I think it looks better the symmetry of this, the matching of the brushed aluminum with that, same with the headlight and just kind of seeing that thematically throughout the bike of where these kinds of touches go. I love the gold forks. And then also you can start to see it's only 200 miles but already the chrome headers are starting to get a little bluing on them. A teeny weeny little bit there. I don't know if that's going to show but as I get more miles on it and those get warm, those will start to blue I think very nicely. So that is probably about it of the highlight reel. Like I said. Look in the comments section below my notes on this video and you'll see the specific details as to the kind of what's what with the bike. But so far after 200 miles, really enjoying it. Very, very comfortable. Great craftsmanship, bulletproof engine, great engineering and looking to do just a few teeny weeny little minor tweaks to make it more my own. I should also probably say too now that I'm looking at the wheels, this is I, I'm not a fan of how these look. I'm also not a super fan of how they sound. They do perform well so that I am a fan of. But they kind of block what I think is a very interesting area here in how this wheel is laced together. This is an optional wheel. There's a standard wire wheel, there's a optional five spoke wheel which I don't personally feel like goes with the, the vibe of this kind of a retro bike. But I just love seeing how you can see each lace of how it's fitted into the rim and, and then how it comes up here and then is bolted in, in this ring which I just think, I just, I don't know, it just, I think that looks beautiful. So just. And I'd like to have maybe, maybe I'll go to a single pipe in a year or two once you know, I've gotten some miles on these. But something to kind of go maybe sweep up a little higher, follow this wheel tire curve and then be able to kind of show this off a little bit. More so people can more easily see that. But I really, really do like that. So again, very happy with it. I feel like I made the a good choice, a good decision. I like retro style bikes. I did have a 2008 Ducati One Club Sport 1000. Very much enjoyed. Had a fairing and whatnot. But I do like the the naked aspect of this. And I should also point out too, it's got a steering damper which is great. The horn actually is is very loud. I had to put bigger horns on a Ducati Monster I had because it just you couldn't hear a thing. But again, no complaints. Very happy. Love how the boxer opposed twin sounds and feels when you start it up and the torquinos of it. So stay tuned. Got a lot more videos available and coming on the way, so thanks for watching and ride safe, safe.
