Matt Prior
TESTER’S NOTES
Engineers are always keen to benchmark against rivals’ cars
Recently I rode the BMW R 1250 GS motorbike that featured in Steve Cropley’s 30 June column, partly because he was so impressed by it. I’ve read great things about GS models over the years and wondered how good the tech-heavy, archetypal adventure bike had become.
Cropley rides more bikes than me, as do bike reviewers (obviously), and it took about five seconds on the GS for that to show. The lower seat height, on what I had always considered to be a bigger bike than my old Honda Africa Twin, was a pleasant surprise at a standstill. But as I tottered out of our office car park on it, I thought: “I don’t like this.”