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Adventure Bike Reaches 1M Units Made
Back in 1980, BMW’s engineers had an idea. What if they built a bike that could handle rough off-road terrain just as well as long highway stretches and twisty back roads — to their eyes, a sort of two-wheeled Land Rover? That bike was the R80 G/S, its Gelände/Straße name referring to both the overland and street…