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On the rocks with accidental adventure-tourist Jack Lewis and BMW's F800GS.
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Broadcasters provide television coverage aboard the BWM K1100LT at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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The Kiwi dental expert, Brendon Ball, has a "cunning plan" for this global ride with a difference.
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Adventurer Extraordinaire
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You've read about it in these pages, probably even considered going: our annual Alps Challenge Tour, organized by Edelweiss Bike Travel. This year's Alps Challenge promises to be especially epic, as it takes place in the stunningly beautiful Austrian Alps from June 21-29. We'll start in Munich, Germ
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BMW stole the Paris Show this year with the HP2 Sport-not just the most powerful and exotic boxer ever, but the first one that looks capable of giving rival sport-twins a bloody nose. The lean, 128-horsepower twin is related to the R1200S and more closely to the factory-backed Sport Boxer prototype
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Kona, Hawaii, sounds like a place where one would compare the load capacity of beach chairs, not swingarms. Yet there we were. BMW's decision to trot out the not-so-new F800S and its sport-touring ST spin-off in such an extravagant location (the bikes were floated all the way from Germany) raised as
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Their essentials are identical. Two fuel-injected, catalyzed, 16-valve, liquid-cooled inline-fours arranged al fresco under sensible fairings. Both are blessed with the miracle of anti-lock brakes and can commute from Monday to Friday or from L.A. to Laconia with some degree of ease. Beyond that, BM
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BMW K1200R SportPrice: $17,260Hard PartsFrameAngling the cylinder block 55 degrees forward lets the main frame spars run over the cylinder head rather than around to keep things narrow. Duolever front suspension bolts to a die-casting up front. Another carries the Paralever out back.
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It's said that a visit to Tokyo-the city of bullet trains, automated toilet seats and ubiquitous vending machines that dispense everything from cold beer to hot corn chowder-is like traveling 10 years into the future. For a motorcyclist, however, seeing the bikes that are currently popular there is
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What do you say when a wheelie for the camera goes magnificently wrong and a BMW R1200GS Adventure tries to thumb you into the ground like a golf tee? We have no idea, but here's what Euro Webmeister Tor Sagen came up with while assessing the $17,000 debris field. "If you're going to screw up," he s
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A casual motorcycle adventure in South Africa becomes a full-blown love affair
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Freestyle rider Christian Pfeiffer is constantly conquering new territories.
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The '06 rumor mill was spinning faster than Valentino Rossi's M1 at redline before the '05 calendars came down. Kawasaki had finally come up with something to shoot down the Hayabusa. Honda had stuffed a fire-belching V-five in the CBR1000RR chassis. Harley'd found Elvis passed out in a golf cart at
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F1 driver takes possession of BMW after the Monaco Grand Prix
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Ringleader: CarrithersMSRP: $16,995Miles: 1880-4711Average Fuel Mileage: 38 mpgAccessories and modifications: BMW Sport Panniers and Tank Bag, Evoluzione Cyclesports Billet Footpeg Relocator and Superwhite Bulb Kits, Dunlop Qualifier tires.
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Riding Harald Geiling's highly unique Beemer is a distinctly uncomfortable experience. My ears are ringing from the wind and the roaring eight-into-one exhaust, and my legs are being wedged apart by the width of the massive V-8 car engine. Every time I twist the throttle my arms are yanked uncomfort
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It's a daunting feeling racing a motorcycle on which someone almost met his maker. But that's where I found myself this past October during the third-annual running of the BMW Airhead Invitational at Barber Motorsports Park.
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It's not a sportbike or a tourer, and even a casual glance tells you there's nothing standard about BMW's 2006-spec K1200R. Most of the glances it gets aren't casual at all. And although it does battle in the naked wrestling match featured elsewhere in this is
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Read this Feature Review as we take a closer look at four motorcyclist, from the motorcycle experts at Motorcyclist Online.
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Come join us for the highlight of your 2004 riding season
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Il n'est de nouveau que ce qui a ete oublie. (French saying: "Only that which has been forgotten is new.")
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(PART 2--CRUISERS & Buying Tips) If you've been waiting to buy a used bike, stop now. It's time. Five years of booming new-bike sales--and the endless technological escalator the big factories ride--have for-sale signs on more high-quality late-model machinery
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