Hauling ass up Long Tom Pass...1200GS is the better tool.

[boundless]

I swapped bikes with one of the BMW staffers who was riding an R 1150 GS Adventure, and the difference was huge. The older machine felt enormous and clumsy.

The bikers of the veldt have spoke.

Time for the rest of us to put away our big is best assumptions and go commando, maybe?

 

[SQD8R]

I concur.

 

[Peter Harte]

I swapped bikes with one of the BMW staffers who was riding an R 1150 GS Adventure, and the difference was huge. The older machine felt enormous and clumsy.

The bikers of the veldt have spoke.

Time for the rest of us to put away our big is best assumptions and go commando, maybe?

Or you could buy a Honda - they 're lighter again

 

[Ming]

Or I could take my Fireblade out instead

 

[Deleted Member MM]

If I had to go up against a 1200 I would take my Fireblade out instead

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[Howard Millichap]

I swapped bikes with one of the BMW staffers who was riding an R 1150 GS Adventure, and the difference was huge. The older machine felt enormous and clumsy.

Took you a long time to realise didn't it?
It's just one (of the many) reasons I bought a Tiger instead.