When BMW launched the R80 G/S (the G/S stood for "Gelände/Straße", that is "Dirt/Street") in 1980, it elicited a lot of head-shaking in the motorcycle community.
After all, it was by far the largest capacity and heaviest offroader available; and it came with such street touring bike features like boxer twin engine, and Monolever single swingarm with integrated kardan driveshaft. However, the original G/S managed to single-handedly pave the way for an entirely new market segment of "Reiseenduros" (big touring dirtbikes).
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
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