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BMW R 1250 RT

YOU KNOW WHAT happens when you let some mad scientists loose in BMW’s Cloverleaf Building in Munich? You get the BMW Motorrad R 1250 with ShiftCam in its touring RT guise. There is more technology thrown into what is essentially a very simple design than in the entire North Korean missile program.

BMW has been producing quality flat boxer twins for nearly 100 years, but market and emission control demands in this, the third decade of the 21st century, are calling for more serious developments than ever before. So I can understand why they have thrown the kitchen sink at the RT. I have followed

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