There is a justified sense of precariousness that one feels when
venturing onto a gravel road,
or even onto a winding stretch of
blacktop, aboard a heavy touring
motorcycle.
A sense thatthe machine's own
inertia is much more in control of
your destiny than you are.
The rider ofthe BMW R80GI S*
is gripped with no such anxiety.
Not because he is equipped with
superior nerves for the task, but
with a superior machine.
Weighing a scant 382 pounds,
this 800cc bike is, according to
tv1otorcyclist magazine,"an absolutely brilliant
handling
machine on curvy pavement." For
its incomparable litheness permits
a rider to literally flick it through
tum after tum on even the most
serpentine roads.
Possessed of an extraordinary
single rear swing arm that provides 50% more torsional stiffness,
the GI S is no less impressive on
gravel. Where, according to Rider
magazine, it is "ideally suited for
one ofthe best-known gravel roads
ofall:the Alaska highway:'
Yet, what is most important is
that this revolutionary motorcycle
is propelled by the same basic,
evolutionary engine that has powered all BMW's since 1923. An
engine design whose reliability can
be measured in decades, not
merely in miles.
Which means, of course, that
the R80G/S will not only carry
you to where no touring motorcycle has ever gone before. It will
carry you back again.
Its price? $3 ,890 ~* Expensive,
to be sure. But well worth it to the
rider who, for once, would like
the luxury of following -his curiosity
instead of just the interstate.
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