BMW S 1000 R Restyled for 2025

It’s been a decade since BMW entered the naked superbike market with the S 1000 R and we’ve had three iterations since then, including the 2014 original, a revised 2017 model and a complete refresh for 2021. So it means we’re on schedule for another set of changes for 2025, and now a new design registration from the company appears to confirm what’s in store.

Since there was a full model change just four years ago, we’d only expect 2025′s updates to be relatively minor, and that’s precisely what’s shown here, dominated by a new nose fairing and headlights that give the bike a much more purposeful look as well as a better tie-in to the latest versions of the S 1000 RR superbike.

We can tell that the bike seen here is the S 1000 R rather than the more powerful M 1000 R because it has the base model’s standard wheels and the same, slightly slimmer lower fairing section as the S 1000 R, but the new “face” gives it a much more interesting style than the single-headlight setup of the current model. The twin lamps are actually closer in style to the design of the homologation-special M 1000 RR superbike than anything else and give a definite link to both that bike and the S 1000 RR. Given that the engine and chassis are also shared with the superbikes, it makes sense to align them visually as well.

The new nose also makes space for a small air intake between the lights, presumably allowing air into the existing duct that’s built into the frame’s steering head area. On the S 1000 RR and M 1000 RR superbikes, that duct provides ram air to boost power at speed, but the current S 1000 R’s nose doesn’t have an obvious opening to connect to it. The new design is also more compact than the existing version, clearly showing the steering damper below the nose that’s normally largely hidden from sight.

There are few changes to the rest of the bike. The fork and brakes appear to be the same as the current model’s, as is the remainder of the bodywork, the instrument panel, the frame itself, and the swingarm. What’s less clear is where BMW will set the performance level, as it opts not to use its full-power superbike engine in the S 1000 R at the moment, instead fitting a 165 hp version of the 999cc inline-four that lacks the ShiftCam variable valve timing and lift system of the S 1000 RR. The naked M 1000 R does get the superbike-spec, 210 hp, ShiftCam engine, and the sole image of the 2025 S 1000 R seen here can’t tell us which motor is being used in next year’s bike.