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The Police of Northern Ireland on XL650V Transalp 650 is the motorcycle of the Greek Police Transalp being used off-road The weight of the Transalp increased over time, from 175 kg (386 lb) for the first models to 218 kg (481 lb) for the latest version.
The Austrians were steely-eyed during the Glockner race in 1938 as a blue automobile, a perfectly ordinary touring car never seen there before, hummed happily up the Grossglockner race course. The loudspeakers made it known that this vehicle required 21:54,4 minutes for the 12,5 km course and achieved an average of 34,5 km per hour.
BMW R1200GS adventure touring motorcycle. A recent type, the adventure touring motorcycle is a dual-sport motorcycle that allows long-range touring both on-road and off-road capabilities. Adventure tourers have high ground clearance (for off-road purposes), large fuel capacity, and under-stressed engines for high reliability.
Grossglockner High Alpine Road in autumn 1997 Hairpin turn near the summit. When, in 1924, a group of Austrian experts presented a plan for a road over the Hochtor (the high pass), they were ridiculed in a time when in Austria, Germany, and Italy there were only 154,000 private automobiles, 92,000 motorcycles, and 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) of long-distance asphalt roads.
Motorcycle touring in Great Britain Motorcycle touring in Gran Canaria. Motorcycle touring is a format of tourism that involves a motorcycle. It has been a subject of note since at least 1915. [1] Motorcycle touring involves special equipment and techniques. A touring motorcycle optimized for long range travel and luggage carrying capacity may ...
BMW Motorrad began manufacturing RT (Reise-Tourer, or travel tourer) touring motorcycle models in the late 1970s.The first of these were air-cooled (or "airhead") models that continued BMW's long tradition dating to 1923 of producing "boxer" or opposed flat-twin engined motorcycles with unit engine-transmission construction and shaft-final-drive.
1912 Henderson motorcycle: Circumnavigation. Dublin–New York 18,000 mi (29,000 km) Unsupported First man to go around the world with a motorcycle [4] Erwin "Cannonball" Baker (USA 1882–1960) 1912 1912 Indian motorcycle: United States, Jamaica, Cuba, central America 14,000 mi (23,000 km) Unsupported Demonstration tour sponsored by Indian [5] [6]
The Brough Superior SS 100 is a motorcycle which was designed and built by George Brough in Nottingham, England in 1924. [1] Although every bike was designed to meet specific customer requirements—even the handlebars were individually shaped [2] —sixty-nine SS100s were produced in 1925 and at £170 (equivalent to £12,200 in 2023) were advertised by Brough as the "Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles".