100 Pounds Lighter: Backdated 1150GS from Blunk’s Garage… Introduced in 1999, the BMW R1150GS quickly began to accumulate awards and recognition. Cycle World named it “Best Sport Touring Bike” of 2000, and Ewan McGregor and […]
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Rahier Replica: BMW R1150GSA Marlboro Edition
From Ormotors: A Modern Tribute to Gaston Rahier’s Dakar-winning BMW… In 1985, Belgian rider Gaston Rahier campaigned the Paris Dakar Rally on a massive factory-built BMW R80GS sponsored by Marlboro and Playboy — a bike […]
Voodoo Interceptor: BMW R1150GS Hooligan
Voodoo Garage transforms an aging GS into an urban assault machine… The BMW R1150GS Adventure was the 1999-2004 evolution of the famed BMW GS series. Introduced in 1980, the original R80GS (Gelände/Straße, German for “Off-road/Road”) […]
BMW R80 “Nightmare” by NIKS Motorcycles
The BMW airheads, powered by their flat-twin boxer engines and shaft drives, have become icons in the motoring world. Airheads have won the Paris-Dakar Rally, the AMA Superbike Championship, and circumnavigated the globe countless […]
Ms.Behave: BMW R1150GS by Hobo Motorcycles
The BMW R1150GS was the company’s premier adventure bike from 1999-2004, powered by an 1130cc, 85-hp air/oil-cooled flat twin boxer engine that made a stump-pulling 75 lb-ft of torque at 5250 rpm. The big GS […]
BMW R1150GS Adventure Scrambler by Whitcraft Services
According to many, the BMW R1150GS Adventure was the height of the GS series of adventure bikes — the last hurrah before the big Bavarian globe-trotter went “full-tilt plastics and technology.” Field repairs were easier […]
