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Flight of the Bumble Bee

By Cindy Bennett, Member #4170

My favourite bike (apart from my Tigresa) on our Ultimate South American trip would have to be the 2021 40th Anniversary R1250GS “Bumble Bee”, low suspension. With the black panniers it looks a striking bike and owner Mick has let me sit on it and promises me a ride before the trip is over!

Mick is a veteran of just about every Compass tour and has done Road of Bones, South American circumnavigation and some African trips and was on the aborted (due to Covid) Asian Overland expedition. At age 72 (and he doesn’t mind admitting this) he is an inspiration and is always up with the leaders in the pack due to his riding prowess. However, he feels that this will be his last major trip on the bike, but is contemplating a 4WD adventure through Africa – so he is definitely not slowing down very much!

Mick is from Launceston and in 2021 went to Southbank Motorcycles in Melbourne to try and obtain a Bumble Bee but was told the wait would be long and no prediction of timing could be given. On a whim he called into Hobart BMW where he knew one of the salespeople and asked the same question, they tinkered on the computer and he was told there was one in Sydney and they could get it in 2 weeks for him. Happy days for Mick, as these bikes in low suspension edition were a rare beast indeed. He shipped the bike over to Europe and spent several months riding around before joining the Compass Expeditions Spain, Portugal and Morocco tour in September 2022. Mick returned home but his bike remained in Europe where it waited patiently for the flight to Santiago in February 2023 in preparation for the Ultimate South America trip.

Mick always engages with the locals in a friendly and fun spirit and being retired from the engineering construction business (with much of his work in a lot of big mines) has some great tales which he regales us with.

The Bumblebee attracts a lot of attention wherever we go, and rightly so!