Bike Reviews by Brand
Elegant Roadster
The bike that continues to celebrate 100 years of motorcycle production. Recently, in the south of Spain, I rode the newest generation of the R nineT, the R12 nineT, through the Andalusian mountains....
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Maximum Adventure
Extend your adventure and confidence in the dirt and on the road. If you were to ask me before this experience what my favourite GS model was it would, without hesitation, be the R1250GS, of course....
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Bavarian Grand Tourer
There’s just something about a six-pack symphony of pistons on the open road. Motorcycling is all about minimalism. Or at least we like to pretend it is. Of course, if that were really true, we’d...
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BMW R1300GS 2023 Review
BMW once again sets the bar high with the redesigned big GS. I’ve spent more time in the saddle of BMW’s big GS than on any other press motorcycle I’ve ridden. Actually, I have owned one of the...
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2023 BMW M1000R Review
Add another entry into the elite 200-plus horsepower club. Nothing succeeds like excess – and by concocting the 2023 M1000R (or “MR” as they’d like us to call it), BMW is doing its best to...
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Special K On Two Wheels
This family of luxury touring bikes is setting a higher bar. Fresh from producing 194,261 bikes in 2021 — making that its best year ever since it was founded 99 years ago, in 1923 — BMW Motorrad...
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2022 BMW R18 B and R18 Transcontinental Review
The next stage in the line of Big Boxer variants. One year ago BMW Motorrad defied the global pandemic by introducing the first in a new family of Cruiser models, addressing a segment that the German...
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2021 BMW R1250 RT Review
According to this writer, the RT’s greatest competition might be its GS...
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2021 BMW R18 Review
The BMW R18 has a lot of design elements gleaned from the 1936 R5 that are worthy of admiration, but that massive engine is definitely the focal point. Ever since BMW released tidbits of information...
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2020 BMW S1000XR Review
The S1000XR’s redesign brief included eliminating annoying vibrations. I really don’t think BMW needed to focus-group hundreds of first-generation S1000XR owners to glean that the most...
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New Genre, New Model
A crossover that bridges the gap between off-road-capable and hard-on-the-body sport bike. Methinks BMW likes inventing new vehicle classifications. Maybe they really do think they are inventing...
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Flirting with Perfection
Which of these better than ever bikes is best Motojournalism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, trying out all the latest machines is cool, but far more time is spent in front of a computer...
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