Vicious Cycle

August, 2004

BMW's GS series has always defied convention. Neither cruiser nor sport bike, the adventure tourer could just as easily go from Paris to Dakar as down to the Kwik-E-Mart on a midnight munchies run. Now, 24 years after the GS debuted, BMW has rebuilt it from the ground up, offering a host of hidden delights (such as gas-saving microprocessors), guilty pleasures (antilock brakes you can disable to get sideways on dirt tracks) and trick accessories (collapsible aluminum saddlebags). The R 1200 is s...