2008 BMW R1200GS and Adventure Review

Nice scribbling, Pete-
Some days your job is 171/2 times better than my own.
Others, 22x better.
Nice point about coming from the street into the dirt, vs dirt to street regarding KTM.
Beautiful scenery, no? Moving back to Tucson soon, where theres plenty of room for those cylinders sticken out, whereas:
..Ive always turned to look at the NYC traffic warrior on a GS- just to see if any scraping of cab would occur while wrestling through rushhour congestion.
Off to Walmart to hoard giant sacks of grain,(panic!) purchase a rifle, and see what I cant poach, then sell, to afford a new GS, here in midtown Manhattan...

giganto said:

Nice scribbling, Pete-
Some days your job is 171/2 times better than my own.
Others, 22x better.
Nice point about coming from the street into the dirt, vs dirt to street regarding KTM.
Beautiful scenery, no? Moving back to Tucson soon, where theres plenty of room for those cylinders sticken out, whereas:
..Ive always turned to look at the NYC traffic warrior on a GS- just to see if any scraping of cab would occur while wrestling through rushhour congestion.
Off to Walmart to hoard giant sacks of grain,(panic!) purchase a rifle, and see what I cant poach, then sell, to afford a new GS, here in midtown Manhattan...

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I'd take Tucson over NYC any day. Though, I like Payson better. It has some great views. Almost as good as Sedona, but without all of the D-Bags, tree huggers, and freaks looking for the perfect Vortex.

Good luck on your move. And say "good-bye" to the Manhattan cost of living. Hopefully you own your place in NY, cuz it is one of the few places that hasn't been hit by the housing bubble. People are still making deals with the devil to afford a place there. You should make out pretty well.

Oh, Im a happy hypocrite..born up at St Lukes near the cathedral in Manhattan, grew up in Tucson, back to evil big city in 1989, back to Naked Pueblo this summer.
I love tucson for the sheer variety:
..huge mountains loom near(southern most ski mountain in U.S.A.), some similar brainless housing sprawl, some old downtown center, plenty of old, nice barrios near downtown, big dumb college sports fix(go..um..wildkittens, Lute), and really- all the scenery that elevations between riverbottom and 10,000 ft in Sanoran desert can provide.
But the love/hate joys of NYC are hard to quit..
I want both each day.
Indeed, NYC still full of crazy square footage that sane people will pay for. As stated before- I wish I could afford the crazy price of new GS, to better achieve peak sanity.

BMW has certainly put a lot of effort into making a good highway bike into something that has at least the ability to get into some sticky off-road situations and survive. It's impossible to avoid the liability of 600+ pounds of bike and rider. BMW deserves a hand for pulling it off. Not as good off road as the KTM but no bike can have really good highway capabilities and really good off-road capabilities at the same time.

Too bad that only 1% of GS owners will ever use this capability. We be stylin' dude! That truly makes the GS the HumV of the motorcycle world.

These bikes are top notch. I will have a new GS in 2009.When we are all forced to shoot our way out of California I will need this bike as part of my contingency plan.

I'd love to have one. I might even change my mind about getting a Ural Patrol

Comrade!

sarnali2 said:

I'd love to have one. I might even change my mind about getting a Ural Patrol

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PO Box 30-06 (behind the claymores)
Youllneverfindityourself, Utah

Nice PO Box number you've got there.

Nice Panther Piss label ya got there...

giganto said:

Nice Panther Piss label ya got there...

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Only the best in the BAR household.

BrowningBAR said:

Nice PO Box number you've got there.

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It communicates but leaves an air of mystery. 30-06? Is that for a BDL? A Garand? A BAR? An M1919? An M1917? An A3-03? All of the above?

seruzawa said:

It communicates but leaves an air of mystery. 30-06? Is that for a BDL? A Garand? A BAR? An M1919? An M1917? An A3-03? All of the above?

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I thought it was for your number of wives and six of them are crazy. 30 odd 6.

Buzglyd said:

I thought it was for your number of wives and six of them are crazy. 30 odd 6.

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Heh heh. Good guess. But not quite. 06 is the number of expert markswomen in the bunch. They get the BDLs

You won't even be able to shoot your way out. All your guns will be taken away by 2009.

I can't decide which is funnier: the dentists riding the choppers down Main Street with the tats, chaps, and leather vests, or the dentists on GS Bimmers riding around the parking lot of the track at Daytona, standing on the pegs and wearing neon green jackets.

..only way to find a victor is make em send a champion clown from each faction, then indian wrestle(on backs, side by side at hip, facing opposite, legs up on count of 3) to find prize winning poseur.
This works for when opposing "stunter" blobs meet on Sat nights, here in the gentle city..

Hummer?

"In case you're not familiar with the GS and GS Adventure, think of them as the Humvee of the motorcycle world."

This is close, but not quite right. I'd say more like a Land Rover: extremely capable off road, but used almost exclusively by suburbanites for nothing more than commuting or coffee runs.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

akcarlson said:

"In case you're not familiar with the GS and GS Adventure, think of them as the Humvee of the motorcycle world."

This is close, but not quite right. I'd say more like a Land Rover: extremely capable off road, but used almost exclusively by suburbanites for nothing more than commuting or coffee runs.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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I saw a Rover Defender with a "Hummer Recovery Vehicle" cover on it's spare the other day. There's a video at Stromtrooper.com of a VStrom towing a GS out of the woods. The Strom has a little hand written "GS Recovery Vehicle" sign platered on the windshield.

Kenneth_Moore said:

I saw a Rover Defender with a "Hummer Recovery Vehicle" cover on it's spare the other day. There's a video at Stromtrooper.com of a VStrom towing a GS out of the woods. The Strom has a little hand written "GS Recovery Vehicle" sign platered on the windshield.

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Amusing, but sadly there's not much money to be made in the off-road towing of Hummers.

BTW. Have you recovered from your May Day celebrations? Did you get to kill many Whiteys? Are your teeth ground to the gums from thinking about **** Cheney and Halliburton?