🏍 Taking BMW automoto for a spin

Hi all! Loz Blain here.

I wanted to quickly introduce you guys to our latest contributor. Well, some of you guys, anyway - I know we have a number of Australian motorcycle aficionados on our list, and to that lot, believe me when I say this bloke needs no introduction.

Boris Mihailovic has long been one of my absolute favorite wordsmiths, the kind of writer who clearly loves the art, and whose deliciously chewy prose can really create powerful sensations in a reader's body.

Sometimes these sensations are extremely pleasant, other times... Well, put it this way; when I first encountered his name in Australian Motorcycle News, it was in the reader mailbag section, where more than half the page was typically dedicated to the outrage he'd stirred up with his last column.

It's my great pleasure to introduce Borrie to our very international audience - our man Karsh has been doing a great job covering motorcycles as I've found myself getting busier on the business side, but Utkarsh is a genuinely lovely person, and I felt our motorcycle coverage would be so much more complete with an extra pinch of ratbag in the stew.

We'll start things off in low gear, with a perfectly reasonable BMW review... But hold onto your hats, things go a long way downhill from here!

😊
Loz

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🏍 Taking BMW automoto for a spin

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Boris reviews the BMW R 1300 R Performance Auto: 'I'm just wired wrong'

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