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First Ride: BMW R1150 Rockster review
By Roland Brown on 13/09/2010 15:48:40
BMW's new Rockster is heavily based on the R1150R, but comes laced with a little more attitude, a snazzier paint job and a Marty Feldman headlight cluster
roadster. With lurid paintwork and graphics, asymmetrical headlights from the dual-purpose R1150GS, and a bunch of cycle parts borrowed from elsewhere in the Boxer range, the prototype generated plenty of strong comments both for and against.Enough people
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Buyer Guide: BMW F650GS / F800GS
By Visordown on 05/10/2010 13:08:42
The ultimate buying and owning guide by the people who know these bikes best: those who’ve bought them, run them, broken them, fixed them, spent money on them and more
again tomorrow I’d take my bike rather than any other. We had nine 800GSs on the trip, an R1150GS Adventure and two R1200GSs too. The bigger bikes had longer fuel ranges but the extra weight counted against them. I ran my bike dry in the Turkmen desert
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First Ride: Aprilia Caponord Rally Raid review
By Kevin Ash on 14/09/2010 13:37:29
Aprilia's revamped Caponord may have its roots planted in the dirt, but like most of the big trailies it was built for touring
is undoubtedly the R1150GS, which BMW keeps reminding us has genuine ability in the dirt. That makes it a believable bike, so it's popular among riders who then use it for touring instead. Oh well...It was thinking along these lines that inspired Aprilia to send
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Niall's Spin: Honda Pan European ST1100 (2001-02)
By Niall Mackenzie on 11/10/2010 10:02:48
Hundreds of coppers and thousands of Pan Clan members can't be wrong about the long-standing Honda tourer, Niall adds his praise
on the planet.Add a better screen and heated grips and you're left with a bike even more versatile than BMW's now ubiquitous R1150GS, which also comes without the added discomfort of lumping you in with every other metropolitan Long Way Round wannabe who
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First Ride: 2009 Kawasaki ER-6n
By Tim Cummings on 20/10/2008 10:31:13
Tim Cummings fires back his first report on Kawasaki's funky new ER6
well with the chassis. To be fair, all that seems true. Some people will dismiss the ER-6n as a learner bike or a girl’s machine. That’s unfair. It’s just as quick as something like a BMW R1150GS and while it’s no track day rocket ship it’s got plenty
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Longest Test: BMW R1200GS Adventure
By Tim Cummings on 02/11/2009 10:40:28
BMW’s best-selling bike for the past three years, Tim Cummings revels in his role as supersub as the GS does what it’s supposed to do...
. You can throw it around thanks to the wide bars but it takes a bit of courage at first as it’s so big and tall. Its predecessor, the R1150GS Adventure had amazing mid corner stability. The 1200 matches this, so much so that with panniers fitted it
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Living with a 2003 BMW R1150RT
By Johnny Daukes on 12/11/2003 15:44:14
No-one in the Visordown office knows who Johnny Daukes is, but presumably he's a relation of Simon Daukes from Haymarket days. Nepotism?
200 miles before the reserve light even bothers to blink into life.I'm also astonished as it's lashing it down, but the BMW R1150RT's bulky curves are keeping my hands, legs and feet dry. I'm even wearing summer gloves in the pouring rain.But then I
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Living with a 2004 Honda CB1300
By Bertie Simmonds on 12/09/2004 15:56:49
Finally a bike that doesn't look like a Bertie's riding a mini moto. Yes it's the mighty CB1300 review
, while the even lovelier Ron buys me a beer. I meet the rest of my fellow tourers. A bloody good bunch, riding things as diverse as a Honda X-11, Yamaha R6, BMW R1150GS and a 1983 Ducati 900 Pantah. Yes, you read that right. He's a brave man that Rob Neal
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Living with a 2006 Ducati Sport Classic
By Alex Hearn on 15/03/2006 15:56:19
Alex Hearn bought this Ducati Sport Classic to review with his own money. But he wouldn't be so crass as to mention that
on the twin Termignonis that adorn its flank. Not the most rational of purchases, then?Naaaaahhhhh, I think we can safely say. But I'm happy.The last longterm test bike I had given to me - an '02 BMW R1150GS Adventure - I still have. I bought it at the end
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Losers
By Carin Sharin on 01/08/2006 20:51:27
Article by The Rider's Digest
fortnight of being well paid to ride a BMW R1150GS across an enormous variety of landscapes and terrains, and flying to exotic locations in private airplanes, all bookended by Business Class flights there and back! Most of you will have seen the results
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