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Poor little Husqvarna. Six years after acquiring the brand from Cagiva MV Agusta, BMW has decided there’s no place for dirtbikes in its future and sold Husky to Pierer Industrie AG, a holding company of Austrian investor Stefan Pierer, who owns 51 percent of KTM (Bajaj of India is the other major stakeholder, with 47 [...]
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A good friend once told me he liked to have his finger hovering over the proverbial eject button in life, even though he never had any intention of using it. The feeling it conveyed to him was, of course, that he could chuck it all at any time and somehow live “free.” The BMW GS [...]
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Hello, BMW? Is this thing on? Um, you’ve completely changed your ways in recent years. Your turnsignal switch is normal, you built a class-dominating inline-Four that actually runs across the frame like on other sportbikes, and you killed it with the K1600 tourers. And yet, here we sit, staring at this naked S1000RR and wondering [...]
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Okay, we’ll dive right into this naked BMW’s MadUSA name. You may remember “Mad Max,” the knobby-tired S1000RR special built by Wunderlich in Germany (pictured above). Our testbike kept the “Mad” of that bike and added “USA,” since this streetable machine was built to ride stateside. “We think the bike is a beauty like in [...]
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On the third day, it happened. Clambering up a rocky slope, the BMW G650GS Sertao caught a rut and jinked hard right. In the uh-oh moment that followed, I reverted to old, bad form and looked at the hillside that was about to add some pretty white plastic to the sand-and-shale mix. And then, unexpectedly, came [...]
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BMW Motorrad Press Release: BMW Motorrad USA reported a 14 percent increase in sales for 2012, nearly double the gain posted the previous year. Retail sales of 12,057 motorcycles were made in 2012 compared to 10,572 sold in 2011. In December, BMW Motorrad USA posted a 2.2 percent increase on sales of 918 motorcycles compared [...]
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No doubt the all-new Honda NC700X is a great motorcycle, but it wasn’t long after the moto-press began throwing around terms like “revolutionary” and “game-changer” and “make mine red” before cooler heads (our readers) began to question the bike’s claim to unique fame. Dual-clutch transmission? It’s a fancy automatic; seen it. Built-in storage? Meh, the [...]
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Corbin Press Release: Corbin is proud to introduce a new front saddle and Smuggler trunk for the BMW K1600 GT and GTL. For those who tour solo or commute on the K16, the Smuggler trunk provides enough space that many commuters may choose to ride daily without the BMW’s saddlebags. Designed to follow the lines [...]
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People look at BMW and see 100,000 employees. But only 3000 are motorcycle employees. And of that 3000, 1800 are plant people in Berlin. So, that leaves 1200 people to do everything else that Motorrad does around the world, including engineering. For a team that small to deliver three world-beating bikes [the S1000RR, the six-cylinder [...]
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Los Angeles provided a picture-perfect backdrop for BMW to introduce its 2013 C650GT and C600 Sport “Urban Mobility Vehicles” to the U.S. media. Not only does the sprawling Southland with its 12-million- plus inhabitants qualify as a “megacity,” California is the only state in the union that allows lane-splitting. Plus, the weather at the oceanfront [...]
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