its not often that a motorcycle review says much more than the obvious, mixed in with predictable helpings of enthusiasm. Reviews from OneWheelDrive.net, a, or maybe THE, Canadian bike adventure site break this pattern with detailed reviews of bikes and other kit by people who can write and see the funny side of owning a large motorcycle, collecting useless belongings to do with it, and then writing about them. So here’s a snippet from a review of the bike I own. Strangely, Neil Johnston says exactly what I have noticed (apart from the geography-specific stuff):

Normally the Trans-Canada highway between Vancouver and Hope is an exercise in mind numbing tedium. Sisyphus, finding himself in our modern age, would likely have his sentence of eternal uphill boulder rolling commuted to following two semis slow racing down the One. On the R1200GS Adventure though, that inevitable constipation of traffic seems not to be a problem; I’ve never been on a bike where traffic so consistently surrendered the left lane. It’s easy to credit this to the R1200GS Adventure’s sheer road presence. Later, I put the Adventure up onto its center-stand with ease, and wonder how BMW pulled that off when my “little” Honda VFR is more of a struggle? Looking over the Alpine White color scheme and black plastic tank panels it dawns on me that this look, that from the side harkens back to GS Dakars of old, really looks suspiciously police-like in drivers’ rearview mirrors.

From: http://www.onewheeldrive.net/2006/05/15/bmw-r1200gs-adventure-a-is-for-adventure-thats-good-enough-for-me/