Considering a 2022 BMW R 1250 GS Adventure Motorcycle? Watch This Detailed Owners Interview First. 

The surprising thing with this behemoth GS is the handling..Those are fantastic touring bikes for long distances..

Great review. I'm looking at the 2023 version but information like this is setting me up to make better decisions (or ask the right questions) for my riding style. Well done guys!

Wow loved the vid thank you much learned about the bmw gsa

Hi there, I have just bought one of these, 40th Anniversary, and I was very impressed with your informative video. I pick it up next week from the dealer with very similar options plus a Garmin XT and will ride it home through most of New Zealand to run it in. Your video has inspired and excited me for that adventure and I really enjoyed your review. Thank you

It is so encouraging to hear you made a decision without regret!

Great interview, down to earth, thanks

Fantastic interview and commentary from an owner. My future bike.

Well done guys. Thorough description. It’s the best motorcycle available, and worth every penny. You mentioned or suggested the next year model may have an electric windscreen. It’s a fantastic feature that I have on my K1200LT and a bike of this caliber should have it, as well as one other even more wonderful feature, reverse. Yes it will add some weight, perhaps not a lot, but it would be incredibly great to have it, especially because it can get you out of an off road jam. My GSA weighs a lot, I take it off road often, and I think having a reverser would broaden my off road choices favorably.

What an amazing review !! 5* no gimmicks just what you want to know ! Many thanks

Great video straight forward to the point. Possibly should add few shots of extras and features to emphasise and support the description given.

This was brilliant. Very informative. Thanks to both of you👍

Great video

So funny 😂 I just ordered a new GSA last week with almost the exact specs, for the same reasons you were telling 🥳 Except I ordered the upper option with different mirrors and caps. And to be totally equal, I ordered the better wind protection for screen (with stabelizer) and handguards. So, well chosen Sir 🤛

I just got my GSA this afternoon. After committing to spend about 22K dlls (great deal on it!) on a fairly well equipped bike (missed the ESA and adaptive lights), I needed reassurance. Hearing what others say helps me feel better about the decision I made. I got "the cradle" for some old Samsung S10 phone I had laying around, (I'll never mount my own daily phone on a bike after three broken OIS on my phones lenses) and the wireless charging, the app with the controls on my thumb, and pretty neat options like finding food and gas either on route, or at destination with a couple of thumb pushes as I'm riding, feels like I don't care about Apple CarPlay anymore! It feels really elegant jumping from controlling the bike display to the second screen (the phone), like in some Tesla or Boeing airplane.. I don't know, but coming from a barebones (no TFT) F850GS from 2019 feels like night and day. The F850GS feels like a tall bike that will fall helplessly if you don't keep it real-straight. The 1250GSA feels like a scooter when you tilt it for such a low gravity center. Unbelievable. And for southern California, normal cruise control (unlike the RT with its fancy adaptive one) is just great. I used to feel strain in my right hand after keeping the throttle open for five minutes, and instead of juggling finger and palm grasps to escape pain, having a lever that keeps the speed is a godsend.

Hi, thanks for the very informative video. Does GSA from 2022 have any enhancements worth over let's say 2019 / 2020 / 2021?

I'm glad you mentioned the heated seats and sticking for the black package. I found that so troubling. BMW can do better. I think Corbin makes a much more comfortable heated seat... but then you'd have to live with a Corbin on an Adv bike.

These bikes cost a fortune. I cant afford to by a new one and risk dropping it in the dirt. Even the regular GS is huge. I can't push it up even a slight incline. I can just pick it up by myself off-road. I bought a used 1200 GS rigged and ready for of road. For a bucket list ride. Nice but half the price. Not so worried about dropping it. Serviced it, Dunlop Trailmax Misions on it. And set of on a 15000km trip up to The Arctic Ocean round Alaska and back. Still haven't managed to clean all the calcite of it. The bike had no issues. Despite well over 1000miles of mud, rocks, dirt, gravel and calcite. The Trailmax are still good. From the last gas near Dawson City It's 250 miles of dirt mud rocks and gravel to the next gas in Eagle Plains. My regular GS made it on its 20 liter tank. I took 19.5 to fill it. Then another 200 ish to Inuvik If you can point out a road anywhere in the UK or Western Europe where there is more than 250 miles from one gas station to the next. I'l eat my helmet. And admit you might need a GSA. Its one heck of a nice bike. you can go almost anywhere on in comfort. It has all the fancy features but I find I except for the heated grips and changing from road to enduro for of road I never used any them.

Regarding heating on the rally version, you can order the same seat features also for the rally version, you can handle this with the dealer.

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It's beast 😈...

Thank you for the great interview/review .................

So the bike only has linked brakes when in road mode and not in dynamic mode for example?

Make absolutely sure you know how expensive all BMW motorcycle service is, especially the labor rates and price of fluids, filters, tire changes and all other parts, BEFORE you go and buy a BMW car or especially their motorcycles.

When is too much, too much? I always judge a bike on "user ability". By that i mean, does it suit your overall life style, rider ability etc. Is it something you live with every day, of do you have to put it away, till you're in holiday mode, and ride something more practical for your every day needs. I guess that's the question we all have to ask ourselves aye?

I'm a beginner bike rider, just recently passed bike test. I'm planning on doing a lot of touring, hence the reason for this bike. I'm quite a big guy, so do you think this would be biting off more than I can chew for a relative newbie? Also the fact that this has so many safety features also draws me to this bike . What do you think ?

Yep. Seat options once you go rally is ridiculous. And no the dealer can’t do anything about it. Other than you eating lots of money to buy things twice basically.

riding comparison between gs and ds?

It is definitely not an investment, as soon as you roll it out of the dealership you have lost a couple thousand pounds just in a few minutes. 8 or 9 years old the bike is worth half the initial price. Bike and car prices will return to the normal depreciation curve when the supply of chips is resolved, in fact second hand cars are reducing in value due to economic conditions (7.6.22), potential recession looming this year.

How much is it?.

Oh guys come on. If you didn’t speak English, there’d be no way of knowing that you weren’t actually discussing funeral packages.

Just a bit boring