Glory Days

Adventure Rider Issue #46

• Fit Out
• Checkout
• Held Mojave jacket
• In Suspense with Karen Ramsay
• Finding Traction with Miles Davis
• The Embassy Car with Mike Ferris
• Map Dreamin’ with Andy Strapz
• Dam. Dam. Dam. Dam
• Project Adventurecorn
• West Of The Great Dividing Range
• Wildest Rides
• Alpinestars Tech-Air 5
• The Fly Line
• Glory Days
• New Zealand Adventure Rallye: King Country
• Thrills, Spills And New Skills
• Coolah Weekend
• Sir Pezz
• A DR In BC
• It’s what we do

Chris Harris’ 1986 BMW R80 G/S Paris Dakar Bike and rider are both classics

The R80 G/S’s 797.5cc air-cooled boxer twin was shoehorned into the compact frame of the R65 road bike, fitted with long-travel suspension, conventional off-road size wheels, and BMW’s Monolever shaft drive and single-sided swingarm.

BMW is just two years from celebrating 100 years of making motorcycles.

In that time its most iconic model lineage would surely have to be the GS adventure machines.