…horsepower compared to the R1150RT makes this comfy touring bike feel like a nimbler sport-tourer. BMW started with the GS's 1170cc Boxer Twin and hot-rodded it with a bigger airbox, more aggressive cams and a full-point bump in its compression ratio to 12.0:1. The result, claims BMW, is 110 peak ponies at…

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…too. The R1150RT is aimed squarely at the long distance motorcyclist. BMW's reputation for reliability and comfort has long seduced the touring motorcyclist. I took the latest RT back home, riding it across France, Belgium, Holland and Germany ??? almost returning the bike to Berlin, where BMW motorcycles…

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…piloted the biodiesel-powered Die Moto machine to a 130 mph world record. Sturtz's design fuses a European diesel engine, sourced from a BMW car, with a BMW R1150RT running on B100 biodiesel.The government-contracted Hayes Diversified Technologies from Hesperia, Califorina, was also back at Bonneville…

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…been moved up from BMW?s home plant at Munich as early as 1958, but the new factory was not opened until 1969. In 2001 the millionth machine, an R1150RT, rolled off the production line in February of that year. The 500,000th GS designated machine came out of Spandau in May this year and the factory…

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