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BMW S 1000 R M-SPORT

3RD – 1.10.5 LAP TIME

t’s easy to write off a bike… metaphorically speaking. What I mean is that Johnny nor I had massive expectations for the BMW coming into this part of the test. On the roads, it hadn’t exactly shone, being a pleasant machine to ride but without any real stand-out characteristics, akin to the quiet bloke at work you say hello to every day but know naff all else about. In this field of bold, brash headliners, the Beemer was unfortunately a little easy to overlook… but everything changed when we got on track. Gripping its bars,

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