The philosophy, as I read it
BMW builds motorcycles for people who ride a long way and want the machine to disappear. The boxer twin, shaft drive, Telelever suspension, and now radar cruise are all solutions to the same problem: how to make eight hundred kilometres feel like two hundred. The GS is the answer, and the fact that BMW also builds the S 1000 RR shows the engineering does not stop at comfort.
History in a paragraph
BMW's first motorcycle, the R 32 of 1923, established the flat-twin and shaft-drive layout the company still uses. The R 80 G/S of 1980 invented the adventure bike, the K series brought inline fours, and the S 1000 RR of 2009 shocked the superbike class. BMW Motorrad has sold over 200,000 motorcycles a year since 2022.
On the track
Toprak Razgatlıoğlu's 2024 and 2025 World Superbike titles on the M 1000 RR.
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