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Cindy & Duncan Bennett Editors’ Report
Some purchase an R1200C, and some have an R1200C thrust upon them. I had decided that the R1200C was an insurer’s dream and a maintainer’s nightmare. It is the first motorcycle we’ve owned that you could leave parked with the keys in out the front without fear (or hope) that it might be stolen, and to get at the battery you have to take the fuel tank off. No need for the BMW design A Team on the R1200C, it was only supposed to be competing with Harley Davidson in the US after all. A low base all round. Then along came the fantastic BMW Motorrad National Rally at Kooralbyn, superbly hosted by the BMW Motorcycle Owners Club Gold Coast, and the R1200C swept the field in the face of some stiff competition to snatch Best in Show. Might also do the same at Crufts in someone’s not particularly humble (not mine I swear) opinion. We’ve been taking calls from Tom Cruise’s agent all week, he wants to ride it up the runway in Topgun III, and Pierce Brosnan wants to add it to his collection of ludicrously unlikely James Bond machine memorabilia, the one he jumped over a helicopter blew the hopelessly inadequate rear suspension. He plans to park it next to the Flamethrower Bagpipes from The World is Not Enough. Regardless, with that win my opinion of the R1200C has turned the corner, and it has paid the modest purchase price off many times over. Tony has written up a more researched article on the R1200C in this edition which has educated the Editors!
Jimbo B and Cindy B demonstrating their shared love of the BMW R1200C in the sequel to 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies:
