BMW F 650 GS Dakar

After a break of 13 years, BMW returned to the legendary Paris-Dakar Rally with a works team in 1998. The company competed with a rally version of the new F 650 GS, which was about to be launched in the marketplace. The rally motorcycle had the designation F 650 RR. The run-up to this new commitment to rally sport saw the development of the idea to create a Dakar version of the upcoming F 650 GS series model analogous to the approach with the twin-valve Boxer models. Just under six months after the presentation of the civilian model F 650 GS in autumn 1999, the BMW F 650 GS Dakar was therefore presented in the spring of 2000.