It wasn’t a gentle, cautious introduction, but rather a hands-on, obviously well-prepared one. As soon as Markus Flasch, born in 1981, took over as the new head of the BMW motorcycle department in November, decisions were made, some of which were not just a change of course, but a U-turn. The Austrian immediately ended the attempt to establish the BMW brand meeting as a cool event in Berlin and initiated the return to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. To the delight of the fans who prefer an Alpine, hearty atmosphere to artificial hipsterism. A highlight of the Motorrad Days from July 5th to 7th will be the world premiere of the R 1300 GS Adventure. Flasch no longer makes a secret of the fact that the market launch of a classic travel enduro with an air-cooled boxer engine and cardan drive, a great-granddaughter of the R 80 G/S, so to speak, was initiated in the time before Flasch, of course.
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