Its kinda overdue.

Its kinda heavy for what it is (over 200 kgs DRY weight and 219 kgs with fuel)

There's not a lot to add to existing opinions of the F800GS apart from the fact that there is 8 more litres of fuel built in.

But its going to be a decent and solid, but not brilliant, off the factory floor go around the world on asphalt and occasional gravel roads bike. It will still not have rims and suspension capable of real off road riding, but none of the other heavyweight adventure bikes (except for maybe the KTM 990) do either. Here is a pic of an F800 wheel after a week off road in Siberia with my group last year. Those of us with good off-road suitable rims had no issues, no dents, no dings, no warping, just rims that stayed completely in shape, while the original BMW F800 rim was utterly destroyed in a week.





The F800 Adventures competition among the heavyweight adventure bikes (and now that its over 200 kgs dry - its a genuine heavyweight) - is going to be the approx same weight KTM 990 Adventure R.

I reckon it would be a similar standard road touring bike when compared to the KTM and a lot worse off road than the KTM.

Always good to have more adventure bikes on the market ... and its good to see BMW (of all manufacturers) so publicly recognising that 1200cc is not a prerequisite for an adventure bike.

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