VOL. 55 ISSUE 46 NOVEMBER 20, 2018 P75
I
f I've said it before, I've said it a
thousand times: The United States of
America is a wonderful place to ride a
motorcycle.
America is blessed with some of the
most stunning vistas, some of the most
engaging terrain you'll find anywhere in
the world. For me, this prehistoric land-
scape is best explored off-road, away
from the manmade fast-food chains, the
incessant negativity of cable television
news and political warfare which has us
split down the middle like never before.
To explore America is to leave this
rubbish behind, to find a dirt road and
to let nature engulf you, filling your
lungs with the kind of purity big cities
like Los Angeles and New York once
enjoyed 200 years ago.
Humans need to explore. Explora-
tion feeds our inquisitive nature, but
just the want to explore isn't enough.
You need a steed on which to do it.
And here is where we come to the
object of our affections in the 2019
BMW F 850 GS.
BMW's new middleweight adven-
ture motorcycle has taken me deep
into the guts of Moab in eastern Utah,
transported me to another time, one
ruled by dinosaurs. The footprint of
the velociraptor at the Manti-La Sal
National Forest lookout is just one
treat on this single-day adventure ride
that would later see us climb the road
to La Sal in sideways snow before
heading to the relative comfort of our
digs at the Gateway Canyons Re-
sort... and heat. Precious heat.
Nowhere on earth
has a landscape
quite like Moab, and
the F 850 GS is one
of the best bikes on
which to see it.
BIKE THE
MACHINE
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