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First Ride: The 2006 BMW K1200GT - Lord Vader, Your Bike is Ready (Onewheeldrive.net)
Model(s) covered: 2006 BMW K 1200 GT
Past the 7000RPM mark the 2006 K1200GT’s engine spins up with a guttural ferocity and a growling primeval engine note serving notice to whatever the posted limit is that it’s about to be thoroughly trounced. That sound and the acceleration it represents gives the newest bike in the BMW K series some serious X-factor. Normally when you think of sport-tourer with all the creature comforts you’re not likely to be running about ranting on about “POWER!!!!” and using a lot of exclamation points. I can’t help myself from doing it though, and that makes BMW’s new K1200GT a very special sort of wolf in Bavarian clothing.
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Model(s) covered: 2006 Yamaha FJR 1300, 2006 BMW K 1200 GT
Yamaha has owned the Super Sport Touring class since it coined the term when the FJR1300 was introduced late in 2002. Some other sport-tourers were more nimble, but none had the FJR's winning combination of big-cube power and long-haul comfort that helped it win our 2004 Sport-Touring Shootout.
Time, however, marches on, and with it comes a new challenger from BMW. We knew the powerful and feature-laden K1200GT was a contender when we tested it during its introduction in Arizona earlier this year, so we set forth planning a comparison test.
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Model(s) covered: 2006 BMW K 1200 GT
BMW Motorrad ushers in a new era for sport-touring riders with the fast, fun and versatile K1200GT. Based on the enigmatic K1200S and K1200R platform, the K1200GT offers up all the performance you could possibly need from a touring machine while simultaneously providing creature comforts that will endear it to Beemer aficionados as well as those not yet afflicted with a taste for BMW's Teutonic quirkiness.
BMW North America chose the rugged red-rock desert of Northern Arizona as the backdrop for the U.S. launch of this latest addition to the super-sport-touring class.
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