Charley Boorman's off-road tips on the 08 R1200GS

At the recent launch of the 2008 BMW R1200GS we caught up with long distance adventurer Charlie Boorman to make the most of some of the knowledge that he has picked up on his two massive Long Way trips with Ewan McGregor and his attempt at the 2007 Dakar.
Check out the video below to see Boorman give you some of his basic tips for geting the most out of off-road ridign from the comfort of the 2008 BMW R1200GS.

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[gtrumpnc]

"If ya ain't crashin', ya ain't tryin'."

This man speaks truth.

[Kyle592]

Oh deary me, you didn't read the original question. He asked, what did they ride AROUND the world. Fucking idiot.

[AlucardNosferatu666]

@DeBalaguer Yes with the additionnal tank from Touratech :o)

[FilozofXX]

@Robertmartin333

The problem riding off road with ABS is, that sometimes you need the fraction that you get out of a blocked rear tire to better stop. For example driving on a very loose gravel, you can not achieve that with ABS.

The second probelm driving off road with ABS is that computer is to slow when recharging the hydraulics presure, so you get as a result a lot of extreme fading. Again on very loose ground...

Altought most of bikes, over the option to turn ABS off...

[Robertmartin333]

HI,

I've been speaking to alot of people who say they've done alot of off roading on various motorbikes and most of the say that it isn't good to have ABS on the bike you use but none of them give a solid reason why. Could someone help me with this?

Many Thanks

[EDWARDBASTARDHITLER]

i prefer the old air cooled ones;these ones look lardy

[buzzkillor]

@dylanpenhale well.. doing it isn't necessarily doing it the best way. Personal trial and error can only bring you so far. The second show he was much more adept at riding (though DUDE, lay off the stupid wheelies!) the first one their lack of rough road and offroad skill was showing. But the bikes were grossly overloaded and they were likely exhausted all the time.

[buzzkillor]

@DeBalaguer yea, I figured they'd have less payload, but looked it up.. not the case. You can't beat the r1200 on the highway and they were on highway for a few thousand miles, but smaller is usually nicer off road. Which they never hit in long way down.

For long way down though, they didn't even use off road tyres, so how bad was it really? Long way round, well.. some of that was horrendous country. But the f800 hadn't been conceived and its KTM version was not used.

[mandavan4eg]

Best bike ever built.

Ignore LatiTea18. That MF is a KTM dealer for sure. )))

[alicanka]

I don't care if ktm is better,,,, I'm a big fella, long legs, tall man, ktm do not afford me, I look like a camel on a mule on ktm. BMW is biiiiiig, I feel that I'm smaller on it.... The shape of bmw is also nicer.... Best regards to u all.... :)