My intention this year is to ride.

Having spent last year working on a customising project that saw my bike spend more time on ramps than it did on the road, this time I want something rideable, gritty, dirty and fun. I plan to ride, and ride often.

This year I had hoped to learn more about my riding and perfect the skills necessary to show an improvement in my craft. If an easygoing, smoothly-powered and calming sensei is actually what I require in order to achieve this over the next few months, then I am pretty sure that BMW will have turned out to have delivered me the exact bike that I need.

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