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Stories tagged "Ownership" from the LatestNewBike magazine.
The BMW GS is sold as the one motorcycle that does everything. After a year running an R1300GS through UK traffic, tyres and dealer invoices, I can tell you which parts of that promise are true — and which ones cost a great deal more than the brochure lets on.
Diego Marroquín · May 18, 2026
Everyone still repeats the same tired line about CFMoto — cheap, Chinese, unreliable — as if nothing has changed since 2015. I went looking for the evidence behind that assumption, and what I found was a lot less damning than the reputation suggests.
Marcus Vale · May 11, 2026
Everyone wants to talk about how a 208-hp naked bike rides on an empty mountain road. Almost nobody talks about what it costs to own one in real traffic, on a real budget, every ordinary day in between — so I did.
Marcus Vale · Apr 1, 2026
Strip away the ideology and the showroom sticker, and the electric-versus-petrol question comes down to arithmetic — so we ran the numbers on energy, servicing, depreciation and the true cost of every kilometre ridden.
Priya Anand · Sep 12, 2025