The most famous of those boxers powers the GS line, for G elande and S trasse (land and street) adventure bikes, which co-starred in the travel adventure movies Long Way Down and Long Way Round with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. Now going on 100 years later, BMW’s line-up still includes a complete range of bikes using its original 180-degree twin boxer engine architecture (“boxer,” since the horizontally opposed pistons in the flat twin move in and out from the crankshaft in unison like the fists of a boxer warming up). BMW, Bayerische Motoren Werke or Bavarian Motor Works – however you want to say it, is Germany’s storied motorcycle manufacturer since 1923 (five years before the Munich-based manufacturer built its first car).
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