BMW R1300GS

[ChrisW]

Allegedly leaked photo - it's a bit 'suzuki', isn't it?

[KungFooBob]

They should make one with the R18 engine.

[v8-powered]

Very apt - piss stained wheels

[Count Steer]

It's funny how ubiquitous the look has become. The R1100 and 1150 versions looked really 'rufty-tufty' as there was very little that looked like them and they looked more like the Paris-Dakar bikes. Now they look like the standard 'touring bike'. BMW pretty much started the big ADV market, now they just blend in.

I'd still have one though.

[Supermofo]

I know they are great riding bikes but, I just don't get it.

[Horse]

I know they are great riding bikes

I preferred the basic 'R' rather than 'GS'.

[Supermofo]

I know they are great riding bikes

I preferred the basic 'R' rather than 'GS'.

Me too.

[Couchy]

SUV of the bike world, just like an SUV they are worse at everything compared to a non SUV yet people buy into the marketing thinking a bike or car will make them less dull than they are

[Mr. Dazzle]

It's funny how ubiquitous the look has become. The R1100 and 1150 versions looked really 'rufty-tufty' as there was very little that looked like them and they looked more like the Paris-Dakar bikes. Now they look like the standard 'touring bike'. BMW pretty much started the big ADV market, now they just blend in.

I'd still have one though.

It's like how loads of Beatle's songs now sound really generic innit? If you were the first to do it and blazed the trail....

Don't think I've seen a green GS before BTW, but I hardly have encyclopaedic knowledge on that front.

[matt]

I think this one looks good

[Count Steer]

I know they are great riding bikes

I preferred the basic 'R' rather than 'GS'.

Having had or ridden a fair few R config bikes (1150 and 1200 only) I have to say that, of all of them I'd have the R1150GS with the R1150RT in second place. That's probably down to personal usage though. If people never do 2-up touring they don't need either but need has v little to do with what people buy....or they wouldn't buy motorbikes.

[Nordboy]

https://www.bmwblog.com/2023/09/21/bmw- ... torcycles/

Seems like BMW may have some issues stateside?

[Rockburner]

https://www.bmwblog.com/2023/09/21/bmw- ... torcycles/

Seems like BMW may have some issues stateside?

BMW have always been ready to do recalls and stuff if a genuine issue is found - especially in the states where I think they're very scared of the legislative situation around warranties and corporate responsibility.

I know that the press likes to bash BMW because of this, but I'd rather a company did recalls than not.



That "Evap" system is only for the US (I think) were they're so paranoid about emissions that the fuel-tank breather has to have a charcoal cannister to prevent evaporated fuel getting out....

[Horse]

I know they are great riding bikes

I preferred the basic 'R' rather than 'GS'.

Having had or ridden a fair few R config bikes (1150 and 1200 only) I have to say that, of all of them I'd have the R1150GS with the R1150RT in second place. That's probably down to personal usage though. If people never do 2-up touring they don't need either but need has v little to do with what people buy....or they wouldn't buy motorbikes.

My 'access all areas' to BMW bikes ended in 2006/7, so I think that was up to the 1150.

Fave for fun was the RS. My own bike at the time was an R850RT (ex-DSA examiner bike).

The GS was just physically too big, the R fitted me better.

[Mr. Dazzle]

That "Evap" system is only for the US (I think) were they're so paranoid about emissions that the fuel-tank breather has to have a charcoal cannister to prevent evaporated fuel getting out....

Well it does make sense...

It's pretty funny really, we have regulations and controls on how many unburned hydrocarbons you can let out the exaust but then over in europe we make absolutely no effort to control emissions at the fill up end. You can only have teeny tiny amounts in the exhaust - but visible clouds of vapour at the pumps/nozzle? Yeah that's fine

Rare example of the US doing it better!

[Count Steer]

Oh, as for buying what I'm marketed, the nearest they got to marketing the 1150GS to me was putting it in the window at the dealers. Went by, saw it, went 'Oooh!' and bought it*.

(I'd seen an earlier version parked up about a year before and gone 'Oooh! at that as well).

*Knowing nothing at all about them. It got me back on bikes though.

[ChrisW]

I think this one looks good

That does look better - the colours certainly help. Maybe the angle, too, it hides the new frame.

[Dickyboy]

My 'access all areas' to BMW bikes ended in 2006/7, so I think that was up to the 1150.

1200 was 2006 - at least mine was anyway, the guy who bought it dropped it at the first junction from my house & had to come back & ask me to help him pick it up

Rather tellingly despite the modest miles and mint std condition a dealer I spoke to wasn't interested in pxing any big BMW's because of the problems he'd experienced...

[Count Steer]

My 'access all areas' to BMW bikes ended in 2006/7, so I think that was up to the 1150.

1200 was 2006 - at least mine was anyway, the guy who bought it dropped it at the first junction from my house & had to come back & ask me to help him pick it up

Rather tellingly despite the modest miles and mint std condition a dealer I spoke to wasn't interested in pxing any big BMW's because of the problems he'd experienced...

BMW dealer? Other brand? Independent?

[Dickyboy]

Twas an independent - Keep Biking in Brackley