让我们来看看。我们认识到多少种不同类型的摩托车？有通勤者，标准自行车，咖啡馆赛车手，运动游客，冒险旅游者，炒人，体育自行车，超级运动自行车，巡洋舰和动力巡洋舰。新利18苹果这些类型中也有子组。例如，巡洋舰包括袋装，我甚至没有涉及任何描述的污垢自行车，也没有涉及到农场自行车。

I am sure that you will be able to think of more.

But is this fragmentation a good idea? I am not going to bug you with that old “when I were a lad, there was just bikes” moan, although it is true. Just showing my age. In many ways a detailed description of a bike type is useful, but we also risk typecasting. That’s never good; think of George Reeves, who was too closely associated with his role as Superman.

And it is typecasting that concerns me. How do you choose a motorcycle when you want to ride it to work most days, pop down to the café on warm weekends, go scratching with it when your right wrist itches, ride to Phillip Island with your friends for the MotoGP and head off for a leisurely holiday with your beloved? If you followed the typecasting, you would need at least five bikes: a commuter, a cruiser, a sports bike, a sports tourer and a tourer.

Need I tell you that this is unrealistic? In truth, you would be looking for one motorcycle to do all of those things, and immediately the fragmentation of types becomes meaningless and indeed unhelpful. It simply does not make it easier for you to choose a bike.

What you want is a motorcycle, not a type of motorcycle for heaven’s sake, or words to that effect.

我有一个解决方案。你知道我会，不是吗？否则，我不会继续进行介绍，我会吗？

You have suffered long enough, so I will give you the answer right now: the solution is the BMW F 900 XR. After a few days of commuting, I recently rode one from my home in Sydney (Australia, not Canada) to the opal mining town of Lightning Ridge near the Queensland border, and back. Easy ride, close enough to 1000 miles in three days, including a bit of sightseeing and window shopping. Do you realise how mind-bendingly expensive opals are? Mrs Bear will not be wearing an opal pendant any time soon, but that is probably just as well because they are meant to bring bad luck. That, for what it’s worth, is my excuse.

Let me give you BMW’s quick rundown on the bike.

XR stands for the uncompromising combination of athleticism and long-distance performance – Adrenaline for days, curve for curve. On the new F 900 XR, you can keep hunting these curves without stopping – with a thrilling design that promises pure performance. The upright relaxed seating position promises maximum comfort and allows you to simply focus on the next corner.

多亏了各种各样的创新设备，您的运动和旅行也一样，与城市的喧嚣一样。全新的F 900 XR与您的运动态度相匹配，并使您在任何情况下都可以挑战其全部潜力。

允许夸张,我觉得这很合理enough. The riding position and even the seat of the XR were good enough to keep me human after those thousand miles. I used a Wild Ass inflatable seat cushion for the first day, but after riding without it on the second day decided not to put it back on. The seat is fine without extra cushioning, something that is rare. The riding position is not quite as good as that of my F 750 GS: where the latter bike puts me in a comfortable upright pose, the XR had me slouching a little.

即使没有较大的BMW的开关式功率，XR也很好。我仍然发现我可以通过稳定的安全利润率穿过卡车。895cc双胞胎的73kW为8500rpm和88nm的扭矩为6750 rpm，性能令人满意。Pillion座椅很好，并且自行车在咖啡厅推出的存在很酷。我在砾石上尝试了它，但是道路轮胎不符合它。

在那些漫长而直的伸展运动中，巡航控制确实受到欢迎。TFT屏幕让我想起了应该回顾一本关于南极洲的书的男孩。他写道：“这本书告诉我更多关于企鹅的信息，而不是我想知道的。”同样，屏幕提供的信息比我真正想要的更多。空着的距离似乎也有些不稳定，我不喜欢大棕色矩形，它使骑手填满了。但是，没有它，即使在明亮的阳光下，屏幕也很容易阅读。它重219公斤湿，可以再次承载相同的有效载荷。

I achieved exactly the fuel consumption that BMW claims for the XR, namely 4.2 litres per 100km. That gives a theoretical range of some 370km from the 15.5 litre tank. This is the bike’s major weakness, in my opinion.

但是，它与摩托车一样近，就像我很长时间以来骑过的任何东西一样，它很有趣又方便。任何想要“公正”摩托车而不是打字特殊的人，都可能会发现这就是他们想要的。

(Photos The Bear)