Big and clever

The 2018 BMW R1200GS Adventure boasts a couple of new features — if you’re prepared to pay a little bit extra for the privilege

Words Martin Fitz-Gibbons Pictures Jason Critchell

HOW DO YOU update the bike that has everything? By giving it more things. Until now the ‘TE’ version of an R1200GS or GS Adventure has come with all of BMW’s hi-tech options, like electronic suspension, tyre pressure monitors, quickshifter, heated grips and so on. TE doesn’t stand for ‘Ticked Everything’, though it should. But for 2018 there are two new pieces of technology that remain optional extras even on the range-topping TE: a full-colour TFT (thin-film transistor) digital dash (£595); and an ‘SOS’ emergency button (£295). You can have either the dash, or the dash and the SOS button, but not the button on its own — it needs the dash to function. And neither can be retrofitted to older GSs. Today’s ride through Wales on a 2018 R1200GS Adventure is…

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RiDE United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2018

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