TESTING TIMES
Dec 05, 2018
3 minutes
WORDS: Peter Henshaw
PHOTOGRAPHY:
BMW Motorrad
You would expect a manufacturer the size of BMW to have a pretty comprehensive test regime, and it does – the surprise comes in the sheer scale of the operation.
Conducted across the world, an average year of testing covers 1.5 million miles, using around 140 bikes. Some of these will be put to some vicious ‘misuse’ tests, a euphemism that hides wheelies, stoppies and burnouts, all things that very few of us actually indulge in, but enough for
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