Leon Haslam will be entering the six-week winter break with a smile on his face. Haslam and the BMW team just completed a successful three day test in Portugal to get ready for the 2012 World Superbike season. “I am very happy. It was very good to come back to Portimão and set constantly quick [...]
The second you swing a leg over a set of wheels you’re prone to onlookers sticking you into a neat package of biker stereotypes. We know better than to try and categorize bikers based on their ride… But our shared imagery must come from somewhere. We spent a few days at Americade in early June, which gave [...]
The BMW stunt riders were a huge hit at the World Superbike Races in Tooele, UT. The once stodgy, tradition-bound company is making huge strides in appealing to a younger market. The stunt team is a big part of that new marketing focus. The BMW stunt team put on a technically amazing, humorous, and interactive [...]
Motorcycle designers from across the big pond have sculpted some of the most beautiful motorcycles in the world – with one glaring exception. European manufacturers consistently miss the boat when delving into the cruiser niche. Most Euro-cruisers are just plain…well, ugly! There is little doubt why the European manufacturers occasionally dabble in the cruiser genre. [...]
It was a good day for the Irishman at the Italian track. Eugene Laverty claimed his maiden World Superbike victory today, beating out Max Biaggi and Leon Haslam. Laverty would be challenged by Biaggi at the beginning of the race, but the Yamaha rider would eventually pull away to take the win by more than [...]
BMW’s factory in Berlin has been around since 1969 and the legendary plant has just produced its two millionth motorcycle. BMW celebrated the milestone motorcycle, an R1200GS, with a special ceremony that was attended by Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, and other special guests. Stunt man Chris Pfeiffer unveiled the R1200GS earlier today to [...]
We were the very first out of the gate of the U.S Journalists to test the BMW Adaptive Headlight Technology. It was 9.30 on Wednesday the 29th of April 2011 when the first US journalists rolled out of Barnsley Gardens in Georgia to test the new Adaptive Headlight Technology on the new BMW K1600 GT [...]
Chris Pfeiffer has already shown us the wheelie and the stoppiee, and now he’s going to teach us how to surf. Pfeiffer, a four-time world motorcycle stunting champion, has been working with BMW on a series of short instructional videos based on his favorite tricks. Here is the third part of the series: How to [...]
Whether you ride an adventure bike, a tourer, or a sportbike, if it’s a BMW you can get it with antilock brakes. BMW will be the first motorcycle manufacturer to offer ABS as standard equipment on all of its 2012 motorcycle models. “Plain and simple, being able to stop a motorcycle faster and more predictably [...]
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