2008 BMW R1200GS and Adventure Review

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2008 BMW R1200GS and Adventure Review

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[giganto]

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...

[BrowningBAR]

Originally Posted by giganto

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...

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.

[giganto]

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.

[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.

[jmdonald]

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.

[sarnali2]

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

[seruzawa]

Originally Posted by sarnali2

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

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[BrowningBAR]

Nice PO Box number you've got there.

[giganto]

Nice Panther Piss label ya got there...