A Succinct History of BMW Motorrad
Posted: Wed 04 May, 2016 6:54 pm
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.
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.