Video: BMW F 900 GS vs KTM 890 Adventure R
Cycle News Staff | July 31, 2024
It seems we’ve put the KTM 890 Adventure R up against everything possible over the past couple of years. We’ve done so because almost every time it seems to come out on top. The 890 Adventure R is the man’s man of middleweight ADV steeds, the base product steadily evolving from the ground-breaking 790 ADV R of 2018.
We’ve put the KTM 890 Adventure R up against nearly every ADV bike in the class.
BMW has been missing from this increasingly focused game. The last time the 850 GS got an update was way back in 2019, and the middle-weight ADV class is now barely recognizable from then. BMW has been seriously on the front foot of late, producing a slew of new bikes, including the highly acclaimed R 1300 GS, so it was only a matter of time before the 850 got the boot and replaced by a far more worthy competitor to the KTM. Enter the F 900 GS.
But the all-new BMW F 900 GS is a new competitor.
