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  • TESTED: 1991 BMW R65GS reader review

    TESTED: 1991 BMW R65GS reader review

    A Personal fitness trainer, 56-year-old Duncan Evans reveals his home-built custom… I served my apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer, then worked my way through a number of industries finishing in aerospace, before being a trainer for the past ten years. I started riding at 14 and got an FS1E at 16, before a new RD…

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  • TESTED: 2011 BMW R1200RT reader review

    TESTED: 2011 BMW R1200RT reader review

    MSL reader Anthony Greenwood, 56-year-old manager of a shop-monitoring business, shares his passion for the Bavarian tourer… I bought the RT brand new in Spring 2011 from Cannon BMW in Witham – they offered me a good deal as I wanted quite a few extras, and it had already been announced that there was a…

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  • Adventure: Jolandie Rust – 45,000km around Africa on a BMW F650GS Dakar

    Adventure: Jolandie Rust – 45,000km around Africa on a BMW F650GS Dakar

    In the November issue of Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine we interview Jolandie Rust. Africa has been ridden through, traversed and conquered, but seldom by a lone female rider. Jolandie took 18 months and 45,000 kilometres to circumnavigate the entire continent on a BMW F650GS Dakar… Read the full interview only in MSL magazine. Motorcycle Sport &…

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  • USED BIKE TEST: BMW R1200R review

    USED BIKE TEST: BMW R1200R review

    A slightly less ‘future feel’ outlook from your biking? Step this way sir… I’m certain there are a few die-hard BMW fans out there who don’t want to join the race to ‘tech-up’ motorcycling. For them, there’s little interest in some of the German firm’s models like the S1000RR superbike or K1600GT/L tourers which are…

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  • BIKE TEST: BMW G650GS review

    BIKE TEST: BMW G650GS review

    This is the BMW G650GS and in this guise (the low suspension option) it’s a bike that is so perfect for so many people that it should be given an award in its own right. Times are hard for many of us right now, with the economic situation threatening to worsen before it improves. Using…

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