BMW R80 G/S
The first big motorcycle for both road and off-road, which created a new class.
G/S stands for Gelände und Straße, off-road and road. Hubert Auriol won the Paris–Dakar on a prepared BMW in 1981, and the machine became the model for all later adventure motorcycles.
Materials: Steel; flat-twin engine, shaft drive with single-sided swingarm
Manufacture: Made in Berlin.
The high front mudguard and long fork.
The single-sided swingarm with the drive shaft.
The R80 G/S appeared in 1980.
The rear wheel was mounted on a single-sided swingarm with the driveshaft inside it, which BMW called the Monolever. The engine was an 800 cc boxer.