We don’t talk a lot about scooters here, so you know that when we do it has to be something special.
French company Panda Moto – a BMW dealership from Burgundy – presents its own rendition of the BMW C 600 Sport maxi scooter, offered in a new ‘racing’ guise curated by Panda Moto’s main man Benjamin Dupont.
The basic idea was to give the BMW C 600 Sport some specific connotation inspired by the S1000RR Superbike – from which it got the ‘RR tag’ as well as the classic ‘racing’ colors of the German brand – but things went a little out of hand in the process as the number of fine components used for the model ultimately precluded any possibility of make it road legal.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing though.
Special graphics aside, the changes that immediately catch the eye of this BMW C 600 Sport RR are the new silencer specifically designed for Panda Moto by Akrapovic, a pair of 6-piston front calipers by Beringer, recalibrated fork by Panda Moto, a cool Ohlins S46 schock at the back, the new deflectors, Michelin Power Pure tires and a new saddle made by specialist Yves Moillo.
Benjamin Dupont however did not stop here, and went on to ‘touch’ the mechanics as well: the cylinder head was in fact modified, the speed controller replaced replaced and the final drive chain shortened.
In these images published by Scooter-System.
fr you can see that the model is already on display at Panda Moto’s atelier, but the work on the BMW C 600 Sport RR is not finished yet: it will soon receive ‘Streetbike-like’ handlebars by Rizoma, a high performance air filter and a brand new air-box.
Hopefully, once the work is done, Panda Moto will also release some performance figure.