![]() After many days of riding the thing I was still – with much childish excitement – discovering features like hill start and the bike’s “sport” dash display at regular intervals. Saying the 2023 R 1250 RS has a good range of features would be under egging the pudding to the point of serving a bowl of milk for dessert. Image via BMW Motorrad Features of the 2023 BMW R 1250 RS Sports Tourer The things I do for you guys… I’m not a big billet fan, but I prefer the “Option 719” cylinder head covers to these grey ones. Let’s start the story propper with a quick outline of exactly what this new-fangled R 1250 RS is, followed by a scene of me schlepping my old, sorry arse to a BMW dealership in Sydney located exactly nowhere near my own house. Also note that last month I was hurtling around on Yamaha’s brand new Tracer 9 GT, so that will be a rather fertile ground for some comparos.īut enough about me and my glamorous lifestyle as a warehouse for BMW and Yamaha to store bikes at rent-free. So it was with this mindset that I signed up to park this red, white and blue Bavarian in my own personcave for a week or two so I could get to the bottom of things and draw a few hard-earned and possibly sore-wristed conclusions on exactly where and how the R 1250 RS went about striking its own very colourful, “M Sport” balance. You might mistake it for an S 1000 RR until you see that screen. Like alcohol and hangovers or ying and yang, it’s just the way of the universe. The more comfortable the riding position, the sooner the pegs will touch down in the twisties and the softer, more pliant the suspension is on your butt and back, the more the bike will wallow and bounce when you push it hard. There’s no magic middle ground where a bike can be as fast on track as it is comfortable on a cross-continental ride. This is the inherent dichotomy of sports tourers. They are both crucial elements for survival but they get on about as well as Democrats and Republicans when they are in the same room together. Similarly, if you tried your cruiser or tourer on a track you’d no doubt be left eating the dust of the fast crew with their impossibly uncomfortable riding positions and sky high torque curves. Go long-distance touring on a proper sportbike and you’ll end up hating the thing with an unbridled passion by the end of the ride. When you boil motorcycling down to its bare bones, there’s only one real equation that matters the one that pits comfort against speed. But I found the last two lacked the finesse of their Japanese counterparts. As tested, the bike had semi-active suspension, tyre pressure indicators, hill start, automatic headlights, cruise control and a quickshifter. There’s a whole lot to like, especially if you tick some of BMW’s options boxes.The large flat twin engine has bucketloads of both horses and torque, along with variable valve timing and – if you opt for the Akrapovic end can like you see here, a very satisfying roar on more generous applications of the right wrist.As BMW’s top-shelf, boxer engine-powered sports tourer, the R 1250 RS impresses with a mix of great looks, comfy riding position and an avalanche of accessories, too.
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