Australian Road Rider

CAFE COMMITTED

You have to hand it to BMW. The Bavarian mob have been damned good at identifying market niches and then splitting them again to give us motorcycles we were far from sure we needed. That’s a long-winded way to introduce the latest in the BMW Heritage range, the R nineT Racer. Okay. That’s all a bit ambiguous. Let me try to explain…

You don’t have to be a pop culture expert to know that cafe bikes are the flavour of the month. There are more than enough scruffy bearded skinny people looking to get laid aboard a huffing and puffing snotbox with the wrong tyres and even sillier seating positions posing and putting outside coffee shops across this wide brown land. More than enough

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