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There is a jJstified 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 of the BMW R80G/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,
this800cc bike is, according to
:A40torcycfist magazine,"an absolutely brilliant
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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 GIS is no less impressive on
gravel. Where, according to Rider
magazine, it is "ideally suited for
one ofthebest-known gravel roads
ofall:the Alaska highway."
Yet, what is most important is
that this revolutionary motorcycle
is propelled tJy the same basic,
evolutiooary engine that has powered all BMW's since 1923. An
engine design whose reliability. GaIil
measured in decades,
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.
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Its price? $3,890::< t" 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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