BMW R1100GS

About BMW R1100GS

The BMW R1100GS is a dual-sport motorcycle that was launched in 1993, and manufactured from 1994 to 1999 by BMW Motorrad in Berlin, Germany. The bike has a 1,085 cc (66.2 cu in) flat-twin (boxer) engine, first seen in the R1100RS which was launched the year before in 1992, and was the first member of the GS family to use an air- and oil-cooled engine rather than the earlier air-cooled airhead engines which had been used on BMW motorcycles since the R32 in 1923. A smaller capacity sister model, the 848 cc (51.7 cu in) R850GS, was produced from 1996 to 2001. In 1999, the R1100GS was superseded by the R1150GS.