Bike Stuff – Blue Strada Tours

Sab Kuch Milega: Riding a Motorcycle to the Roof of the World

This is not a tour. It is an expedition. 14 days through the Indian Himalayas, riding to Khardung La — the highest motorable road in the world — on a Royal Enfield. July 2026.

Sixty Years Old and Still the Best in the Room: Riding Classic BMW Boxers Through Central Italy

Four vintage BMW boxers. Five days through Central Italy's mountain roads. A guide who's spent decades caring for these machines. October 2026.

The Rules of Trajectories

Note: the article is written for countries with a right-hand side road system. If you live in a country with a left-hand side road system, please swap left and right accordingly. Utility of trajectories Proper motorcycle trajectories are the most important concept for safe driving and what most differentiates those who really know how to […]

A Brief History of the BMW K Series

Background BMW is inextricably linked to the two-cylinder boxer, but not many people know that this type of engine had actually been patented by Karl Benz – yes, precisely that of Mercedes-Benz – in 1896 and was already quite widespread in the two-wheel sector well before BMW started making motorcycles. However, it was arranged longitudinally, […]

The Boxer and RT

In the last twenty-five years, I have driven every BMW R-series that has been on the market. As it is well known, these are the models equipped with the boxer two cylinders engine, a real trademark of the German company, produced in its ever more advanced variants without interruption from 1923 to today. They are […]

2024 BMW R1300GS Review

German manufacturers know how to do many things very well. One of these consists in evolving a model for decades, keeping the archetypal characteristics of the parent model intact. A 2024 Golf is undoubtedly related to the first Golf from 1971, despite being very different from it in many respects. On the other hand, in […]

2023 Moto Guzzi V100 Mandello Review

The rediscovered DNA Premise To be honest, I was not a Guzzi lover. I have obviously known the Mandello manufacturer for a lifetime―I even drove past it last summer―and I have always vaguely known that it is a manufacturer with a great past and a present full of nostalgia. The first short test I did […]

2022 BMW S1000R Review

Purebred Horse Intro It was April 2007 when BMW, the Bavarian manufacturer known for its touring bikes powered by boxer engines, announced that it would participate in the Superbike championship. It sounded more like a joke, but the Germans who had uttered it were very serious; if they were joking, they must have studied at […]

Motorcycle Full Floater Suspension Systems

Intro When I tested the BMW S1000XR, I noticed from the specs that the bike is equipped with a rear suspension called Full Floater Pro. I already knew the name Full Floater because it is a progressive damping suspension widely used by Suzuki in the ‘‘80s. Now, BMW tends to call “Pro” a lot of […]