Road Test: 2005 BMW K1200S

MotorcycleUSA was invited to join a half-dozen of the premier journalists in America for the American press launch of the 2005 BMW K1200S, held in the beautiful city of Sausalito, just outside of San Francisco, California.

We rode more than 300 miles on that day, going through two tanks of fuel and bringing them back with just 3 miles left on the cool LCD fuel-o-meter countdown gizmo. But that wasn't enough seat time to really evaluate a big mileage-eater like the K, so we rode it back to MCUSA HQ in Oregon and did some additional riding there before returning it back to California.