R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part II

“It’s going to be the, ‘I rode one of these in the war’ story”, I joke as we watch two elderly gentlemen appraise the three bikes.  BMWs it seems are some of the most approachable bikes, in part I think due to the sense of history they imbue.  The door opens and the white haired…

R-Type of Tour: Mapping the RT, ST and GS Provinces – Part I

We ascend into Manning Park to the aeronautic thrum of the three horizontally opposed twin engines as the BMW R1200RT, R1200ST and R1200GS Adventure sweep though in single file.  April’s rugged meteorological terrain has been washed over with summer’s sheen, with the sun beating the snow back into the trees along British Columbia’s Highway 3. …