As I sat astride a BMW Motorrad F900GS in Spartanburg, South Carolina, instructor Terry Smith offered some sage advice: “Off-road riding makes you a better on-road rider, but it doesn’t really transfer the other way.”…
Ask most enthusiasts to name a BMW motorcycle and the answer you’ll likely receive is, “The GS.” And by GS, they’ll likely mean the big-bruiser, dual-sport, world-conquering Boxer-twin (the latest example of which tips the…
At the recent BMW Media Launch for both the all-new F 900 GS and CE 02 in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to put the CE 02, BMW Motorrad’s latest electric scooter, through its…
The car you see here is a 2023 BMW M440i xDrive Convertible, BMW’s just-below-an-M, mid-sized, open-aired joy machine. (And since BMW’s contemporary vehicle nomenclature can be a bit of a mouthful, we’ll just call this…
Can a motorcycle cosset? That seems the question BMW Motorrad is asking with the new K 1600 GTL, BMW’s flagship touring motorcycle. In the hierarchy of BMW automobiles, the 7-Series has long occupied the top step in…
Close your eyes and imagine a classic BMW bike from days gone by, then open your eyes and look at the newly launched R18 B and Transcontinental models. The marque’s family heritage is immediately apparent….
I am a fan of high-test station wagons. I am also a fan of performance cars. (Duh.) The coolest car I’ve ever owned, or likely ever will own, was an Audi S4 Avant (aka Wagon),…
To support the lavish lifestyle of a part-time car blogger, I spend more time than I care to admit traveling by air, hither and yon, as part of my day gig. Thus, the annual car…
A friend of mine once tried to calculate the psychic benefit of a day spent driving a convertible with the top down versus a day spent driving a conventional tin-top. He based his conclusion on…
Sometimes life rains happy little flowers. Take the other day, for example. There I was, having an otherwise normal day working out of my firm’s office in lovely Columbus, Ohio, and suddenly I wasn’t. Alien…
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