BMW K1600GT and K1600GTL – Blitzkrieg Touring
BMW K1600GT and K1600GTL – Blitzkrieg Touring
Mon, 13/06/11 – 17:38 | Comment

Motorcycles can be a summary of a corporation’s collective psychology, and in that case BMW’s latest super-touring fraternal twins, the K1600GT and K1600GTL, can be summed up as daring. Though, as you hunt down sport-boy on the R1, he glancing in the rear view mirror and catching a glimpse of your fully bagged ultra-opulent 1649cc, 160hp, 129lb-ft of torque, weapon of choice may sum it up as, “WTF?!?”

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R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part II
Tuesday, 8 Aug, 2006 – 11:45 | Comment
R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part II

“It’s going to be the, ‘I rode one of these in the war’ story”, I joke as we watch two elderly gentlemen appraise the three bikes.  BMWs it seems are some of the most approachable …

R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part I
Saturday, 15 Jul, 2006 – 21:58 | Comment
R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part I

We ascend into Manning Park to the aeronautic thrum of the three horizontally opposed twin engines as the BMW R1200RT, R1200ST and R1200GS Adventure sweep though in single file.  April’s rugged meteorological terrain has been …