Rahieralready had a Paris-Dakar victory under his belt. The Belgian had battled with teammate and Dakar winner Hubert Auriol for GastonRahier and others rode these beasts to win after win. Yes, other bikes were faster or lighter but in the end, the reliability and the comfortable pace maintained by the BMW's eventually dominated. BMW Accidentally Creates a New Genre of Motorcycling To celebrate this achievement, BMW built Paris Dakar commemoritave In1984 Gaston Rahier won the Dakar on an R80GS and again in 1985. These successes forever cemented it into the annals of motorsport history, but perhaps more importantly it GastonRahier who won Paris-Dakar for BMW in the 1980s was something like 5-4 and of course that bike wasn't as low as stock height. Suspension lowering of course compromises bike handling from the original design intent. A little lower seat probably doesn't hurt. The 2005-2013 R1200RT was available in later years with lowered GastonRahier won the Dakar on a R 80 G/S in 1984, and then again on a larger 1,000 cc engined R 80 G/S in 1985. To commemorate their success, BMW launched the R 80 G/S - Explore F Howard's board "Dakar bmw" on Pinterest. See more ideas about bmw, bmw motorcycles, bmw boxer. Releasedin 1980, the BMW R80GS is the progenitor of the multi-cylinder, dual-purpose “adventure bikes” so popular today. Originally developed to compete in the ISDT (International Six Days Trials), the air-cooled flat-twin Airhead G/S (G for Gelände “offroad” / S for Straße “street”) would find early success in the Paris Dakar Jižz názvu BMW Gaston Rahier Tribute je zřejmé, že se jedná o poctu nejen legendárnímu Gastonu Rahierovi, který vyhrál s BMW GS rallye Paris–Dakar v letech 1984 a 1985, ale také celému neuvěřitelně úspěšnému fenoménu řady GS. RacerGaston Rahier’s Cartier Watch to Make Auction Debut at Sotheby’s Paris. A Cartier watch, specifically made in 1983 for the Paris-Dakar Rally—one of the world’s most challenging RolandSands Design took a 2008 BMW R 1200 GS and turned it into an absolutely That led Sands to think back to the 1986 GS built by HPN and raced by two-time Dakar winner Gaston Rahier. pXi1Vyb.