Adventure Bargains 2.1 - BMW G 650 XCountry - Have we gone forwards or backwards?
I'm trying to widen my coverage of adventure bikes and touch on some of the older stuff around the £2000 mark, of which there's loads of stuff out there. The first bike I've looked at is the Kawasaki Versys 300, with a ride report on that to follow shortly. The second is this BMW G 650 Xcountry, a short lived attempt at something different from BMW, but highly revered now for its power and weight. It begs the question; are new bikes an improvement on their forebearers, or a step backwards? Ride report on the Xcountry also to follow. ps. I'm no connection to Bike Social, I just have one of their hoodies.
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Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (BMW AG), trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (German pronunciation: [ˌbeːʔɛmˈveː] ), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational conglomerate manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Germany. The moniker, "BMW ", first came into use when the German firm Rapp Motorenwerke changed its name to Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH (BMW GmbH) in 1917. Thereafter, in 1922, the name and asse...
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