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The Hand-Me-Downs of the BMW R1200GS and Adventure

Receiving your older sister’s or brother’s hand-me-downs is really never as fun as it would be to get your own stuff, such as a brand spankin’ new pair of the canvas Chuck Taylor’s. However, in the event that you look up to your older siblings, you may feel honored to finally receive what they have had because their so cool within your eyes.

BMW motorcycles have a very similar pattern for passing along when there is some new form of electronic wizardry presently being introduced on a certain model; however it is a lot more like trickle-down instead of hand-me-down. Surrounding, the 2008 GS Adventure and R1200GS, case, you are finally receiving what all of your mates had is considered good; receiving a version that is even better is absolutely great.

Accompanying the myriad of refinements, some substantial, some minor, the bikes that may have been considered by many as the top dog within the adventure-touring, now have for the first time ever, produced an enhanced version of the Electronic Suspension Adjustment by BMW as equipment available. It is also known as Enduro ESA, and it is more than ready for the world’s ruggedness. Not to mention, that this would also be the very first opportunity presented to sample the Automatic Stability Control of the BMW on the R1200GS.

In the event that you aren’t very familiar with the GS Adventure and GS, you can think of them as being the Humvee within the motorcycle world. They have been able to develop a reputation being the bike that you need to have when planning to take the long way around on some two wheeled trips that may span continents, if not the entire world. The GS and the GS Adventure both have the exact same basic platform of a 1,170cc, air-oil-cooled four value Boxer Twin as the stressed member within a trellis frame of tubular steel that is riding on a nineteen inch front and a seventeen inch rear wheel. The German bike makers very unique up front Telelever up and out back Paralever is suspension.

The key to differentiating between the two different models is the cavernous eight point seven gallon fuel tank which is a complete three point four gallons more than that of the GS, a zero point eight inch increase in the suspension travel, a one point seven inch taller adjustable seat height, hand guards, spoked wheels, larger windscreen, wide-platform foot pegs of the off road style and the crash guards for the cylinder heads and the fuel tank. Then clearly, the Adventure will be ready for just what its name implies.

That may be why Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor opted for a complete pair of them when they went on their Long Way Down transcontinental jaunt. Even though the GSA is a lot more ready than the GS when it comes to the long-haul over all of the rough stuff, both of these bikes have received a revised mill that is good for about a five percent boost in power with a claimed one hundred and five horse power at seventy five hundred rpm, and an unchanged eighty five feet pounds at fifty seven hundred and fifty rpms, as well as a brand new eight thousand rpm redline, which is up from the seventy seven hundred and fifty rpm.

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