A BMW Riding School Far Off the Beaten Path

30.04.10

IT is a raw 50 degrees, dead and raining, and the track for off-road motorcycles here on the grounds of BMW ’s assembly plant has transformed into a aspect of slimy mud, slick grass and deceptively benign-looking puddles.

“GS weather,” muttered an trainer.

“GS weather,” agreed another.

The GS in question was the BMW R 1200 GS, the mount of choice for the BMW Rider Training conduct, off-road division. It has earned a reputation as one rugged on- and off-road touring bike, thanks in no insignificant part to the 2004 documentary “The Long Way Round.” That series followed the actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as they navigated some of the exultant’s roughest roads aboard a pair of GSs on a 20,000-mile tour from London to New York by way of Siberia.

Mechanically be like to the company’s plush highway motorcycles, the GS is BMW’s top-selling motorcycle globally. Introduced in 1980, the GS-series bikes are exemplary utilitarian Beemers, with 2-cylinder Boxer engines that have evolved from BMW designs of the 1920s.

Source: New York Times