MAESTRO REVIEW BMW R1100GS. THE OG of ADVENTURE BIKES: A Pit Bull in Golden Retriever's clothing.
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The BMW GS: A Pit Bull in Golden Retriever's clothing. DON'T TRY TO PET IT! SHE BITES!! AND... It's even. uglier when it's passing you! BMW R1100GS: The OG of Adventure Bikes Before adventure bikes were a category, BMW made it a lifestyle. The R1100GS, launched in 1994, didn’t just break new ground — it paved the road for every ADV machine that followed. Air/oil-cooled 1085cc Boxer twin – rugged, torquey, unmistakably BMW. Telelever front suspension – odd to look at, brilliant to ride. ABS, fuel injection, and long-travel suspension – unheard of in the dirt back then. 535 lbs wet – a beast, but somehow still nimble. It looked weird. It sounded weird. But it worked. Where others feared to tread, the R1100GS just grinned and went.
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, t...
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