A Succinct History of BMW Motorrad

[intherough1]

I'm fairly new to the world of BMW bikes having first ridden a R1200GSA around Normandy late last year. I was so impressed by it that on return to Perth I started looking and subsequently buying my R1200 Beemerhoth in December that I've affectionately named La Boganette. The bike i rode in France is exactly the same year and model and is called La Petrolette - distant cousins?

Anyway, apart from being beautifully balanced (until tipped over too far), reliable (starts 1st go after being dragged backwards for 10m while lying on its side in a muddy salt lake) and just a sheer joy to ride (except when it has road biased tyres and I'm traversing with firmly clenched buttocks along wet slippery gravel), it's a beautiful machine and damn fine engineering.

I didn't really question where this heritage came from. And then when I was about to unsubscribe from a website because I was getting sick and tired of their daily sales emails, I stumble across this blog on the history of BMW Motorrad. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it so I thought I'd share it on the forum.

http://www.bikebandit.com/blog/post/mot ... rrad-story

Ariel

Ps..I still unsubscribed from that mailing list.