BMW R 1150 GS Adventure versus Yamaha FJR 1300 AE
BMW R 1150 GS Adventure
Yamaha FJR 1300 AE
Year of construction / RRP / Test report
Competitors
- Comfort
- Processing
- Off-road capability
- Comfort
- Processing
- Pulling power
- Long-distance suitability
- High weight
- Weight
Dimensions & Weight
Length : 2.180 mm
Seat : 900 mm
Weight : 287 (max: 460 ) kg
Length : 2.230 mm Height : 1.450 mm
Seat : 805 mm
Weight : 275 kg
Engine
Displacement: 1.130 ccm
Hub: 71 mm
Hole: 101 mm
Cooling: Öl-Luft
Drive: Kardan
Aisles: 6
Displacement: 1.298 ccm
Hub: 66 mm
Hole: 79 mm
Cooling: flüssig
Drive: Kardan
Aisles: 5
Performance
Performance: 85 HP at 6.750 U/Min
Torque: 98 NM bei 5.250 U/Min Tank contents: 22 Litre
Consumption: 5 l
Performance: 144 HP at 8.000 U/Min
Torque: 134 NM bei 7.000 U/Min Tank contents: 25 Litre
Chassis
Tubular space frame (steel) Front suspension:
Telelever (travel 210 mm) Rear suspension:
Central strut (travel 220 mm)
Rear suspension:
Paralever single-arm swingarm Tyres at the front: 110/80 B 19 TL
Rear tyres: 150/70 H 17 TL
Bridges (aluminium)
Brakes
Double disc brakes (∅ 305 mm) Rear brake
Single disc (∅ 276 mm)
Double disc Rear brake
Disk
Cheap never, well mostly
MW driving has never been a particularly cheap pleasure. Although many specimens are around 20 years old and have collected correspondingly many kilometers, these GS are still not a bargain. It must be at least 5,000 euros, top-maintained specimens like our test bike like to scratch at the five-digit. You can understand this: The BMW R 1150 GS, if you don't catch a rocked-out model, is an almost ideal companion for the very big tour.
If you can do without cornering and agility, the GS is the ideal travel moped, where the road can be three steps below perfect.
As I said, a buddy for the good and the bad days.
Reliable Tourer
You have to be able to afford it, the Yamaha, which costs around 20,000 euros in better equipment. For this you get a luxurious and mature looking companion for the good and bad days in the life of a motorcyclist. Compared to the adventure bikes, you have to do without the indicated off-road suitability – but probably no one has complained about it yet. That's right.
Choose the destination and have confidence: if it doesn't happen with the circumnavigation of the world, it's not up to Yamaha.
The test bike was provided to us by Tecius & Reimers in Hamburg-Eidelstedt.
