You don't need me to tell you how BMW's R/GS has shaped the biking landscape over the last 43 or so years. Unless you happen to live in the middle of desert or next door to the local chopper club, it will be the familiar Boxer rumble of the R 1250 GS (and R 1200 GS and R 1150 GS...) that soundtracks your and everyone else's days. They are everywhere, these GS things, and they’re everywhere because they are brilliant – it’s that simple.
Since 1980 the GS has evolved from the niche Dakar-inspired R 80 GS to the global blockbuster that is the R 1250 GS, in all its many guises. The GS platform has become the most refined and evolved in two-wheel history, with each new iteration reconfigured into a marginally more capable, versatile and desirable adventure machine.
