[seruzawa]

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.

 

[seruzawa]

Comrade!

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

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[seruzawa]

Nice PO Box number you've got there.

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]

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

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

 

[seruzawa]

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.

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?

 

[seruzawa]

I dunno, it seems too big, too heavy, and too pricey for my blood. It does inspire thoughts of wild tours of South America though

Back in the 60s BMW ran a series of ads in Cycle World that followed a man and his wife who were touring from Nome, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Each month there was a different photo of the bike, an R-69 (the 600cc). My favorite was a shot of the Beemer, festooned with bags and spare tires, up to its axles in mud somewhere in El Salvador.

So it's pretty funny today to see people who are convinced that they need some special built specialty bike to tour or go off road, etc. Not that there's anything wrong with the specialty bikes. Far from it. But people shouldn't let the fact that they don't own a GS stop them from exploring interesting places. There's no place a GS can go that my KZ750 couldn't.