BMW Motorcycle Pages

The R850 platform is a highly overlooked (in the US anyway) motorcycle. Released the same time as the original R1100xx bikes, the R850 offered a slightly smaller option for those not interested in the new 1100. Even though I no longer own this bike, I've kept the info & mods pages up, as I get a lot of traffic & questions about the bike.

The R1100GS platform was the 2nd generation of BMW's nominal on/off-road motorcycle. While not explosively popular in its first generation, later variations (R1150/R1200) have proven to be BMW's best-selling motorcycle.

The K1200RS platform was the late-1990s update of the 3rd-generation K engine, BMW's foray into the world of 4 cylinders and liquid cooling.

BMW R850R - Info - Maintenance & Modifications

BMW R1100GS - Info - Maintenance & Modifications

BMW K1200RS - Info - Maintenance & Modifications

In the above photos, you can see me with my '98 K-RS (left) and '95 R-GS in early August 2009. Obvious modifications to the R bike are:

• Windscreen (Givi)
• Touratech "hard part" steering stop (look on the A-arm)
• Driving lights
• Crash bars (sourced from Twisted Throttle)
• Sargent seat
• Wide, grippy, and rotatable footpegs (Pivot Pegz)
• Top case (Caribou Cases)
• Street tires (Metzeler Z6) instead of standard Tourance tires
• Lowered exhaust

Links!

• My trip reports
• A year of gas
• First Impressions: 1996 BMW R850R (this is where I got the pics of the red bike)
• Tom's BMW R850R (a great site with more mods and pics, plus a nice little FAQ)
• A&S BMW Motorcycles (great place for online part shopping)
• The best trip report ever.
• For most of the rest of the stuff mentioned here - Bob's BMW, Morton's BMW, Parabellum, Russell Day-Long - just do what everybody else does and Google it!