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RIDER MAGAZINE has named its 2009 Bike of the Year and the honor goes to the BMW F800GS.
Here is some of what RIDER had to say about this motorcycle:
BMW has been thinking way out of the box... and there is perhaps no better evidence than its unstoppable new F800GS adventure tourer. It's taller and longer than the R1200GS Boxer twin, and not much lighter, but is far narrower with its upright parallel twin, and like the 1200 offers a tremendous amount of satisfying performance.Chain final drive, 9 inches of suspension travel, a 21- and 19-inch front/rear spoked wheel combination and plenty of twin-cylinder torque give it much better off-road ability than its Boxer breatheren, yet the F800GS has enough on-road legs that you can haul down the highway from fill-up to fill-up in satisfactory comfort without stopping.... and starting at $10,520 the F800GS is priced $4,000 less than the 1200.
With a complete range of available adventure accessories (including great expandable locking hard bags, GPS and a low-seat option), as long as it suits your inseam and you don't mind a little business now and then, it's hard to find a more capable machine for a 'round-the-world adventure or just a run to the next town, on- or off-road.
... Congratulations to BMW for the F800GS, Rider's 2009 Motorcycle of the Year...
- July, 2009, Rider Magazine
