VOLUME 57 ISSUE 43 OCTOBER 27, 2020 P121
JACK Of All
TRADES
These days, it helps to be multi-
talented. It's something BMW
has known for the past 40 years
with the mighty GS
I
sn't it incredible that BMW's
GS has been around for four
decades? That's longer than
I've been alive, and yet, it seems
not all that long ago.
The GS is absolutely BMW's
golden goose and is the ma-
chine that saved BMW Motorrad
as a company from the financial
gallows in the early 1980s. The
GS and this $20,395 MSRP GS
Adventure that I've just finished
testing, are the original do-it-all
motorcycles. I've got a pretty
deep love of both bikes, espe-
cially the bigger-tanked GSA—If
you told me I could have just
one bike for the rest of my life,
a GSA would be right at the top
of my list. That's because I've
witnessed this thing in action
all across the globe and seen
just what this beast of a bike is
capable of. Yes, it's massive and
therefore restricted to a certain
height of rider, but it's so damn
good at pretty much everything it
does, you must give BMW credit
for creating it in the first place.
At the end of 2018, BMW
released the new R 1250 GS and
R 1250 GS Adventure, this new
edition sporting the Bavarian
giant's ShiftCam technology for
the horizontally-opposed boxer
motor.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
