![]() ![]() Of course, the ADVrider forum is full of stories of many, many other riders who have done millions of miles on these machines, all with their own stories as well. Charley Boorman rode an F650 GS in his Race To Dakar documentary project, and Rene Cormier used one for his five-year trip that inspired his University of Gravel Roads book. There were shifts in production over the years (sometimes Rotax made the engine, other times production was outsourced to Asia), but generally, these were reliable, tough bikes, and some people based prominent expeditions around them. ![]() ![]() In most markets, the F650 line’s been unavailable throughout for a while now, but through the 1990s and early 2000s, the liquid-cooled thumpers were a fairly popular entry point to the BMW brand. Photo: .uk Fast pastĪs for this F650RR, it’s a single-cylinder machine from back when BMW still made such bikes. You can see some of the modifications the race team did to tackle Dakar. ![]()
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