BMW Announces the K1200S High-Performance Sports Bike It’s finally here!  The time for speculation is over. Now it’s official: the K 1200 S has arrived! In motorcycling as in boxing, the unexpected moves are sometimes the most effective. BMW, successful for more than eight decades with reliable, durable and, well… sensible motorcycles, has unleashed a…

October 29, 2005 Story by Ken Freund, Photography by Kevin Wing Traditional, dyed-in-the-lederhosen BMW boxer afficionados still haven’t gotten over the blasphemous use of an in-line four-cylinder engine in the first K bikes back in 1983. Now they have even more to fret about–while the rest of us can revel in this most-powerful BMW motorcycle…

By  CMG Staff Words: Rob Harris Photos: BMW With the new K1200S come new technical ideas that we think are worthy of a bit of a closer look. There’s actually enough to make a whole article unto itself, so that it what we did – only hopefully written for the average person … with a…

Test Riding The High Performance Inline 4 By Ed Barron Recently we were privileged to attend the BMW K 1200 S US Press Launch (or was that a 260 mile press lunch?) in Sausalito, CA. The bike had its initial rollout last year but quality control problems with parts, suppliers and drivability issues caused BMW…