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1989 BMW R100GS 'Bumble Bee' — The Adventure Bike That Started It All Heads to Auction

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1989 BMW R100GS 'Bumble Bee' — The Adventure Bike That Started It All Heads to Auction — PHOTO — SILODROME / © Silodrome / Bring a Trailer↗ View original

A 1989 BMW R100GS in the legendary black-and-yellow 'Bumble Bee' livery has been listed on Bring a Trailer. The 980cc air-cooled boxer twin shows around 38,000 miles and had its carburetors rebuilt in 2026. Its predecessor, the R80G/S, won the Paris-Dakar Rally four times and is credited with starting the adventure-bike genre.

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Motoo Kajimura

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That air-cooled boxer's low growl plus the black-and-yellow Bumble Bee scheme — the color alone gets my blood up. The R80G/S it descends from won Paris-Dakar four times and basically invented the adventure bike as we know it. Freshly rebuilt carbs mean somebody plans to actually ride this thing. That's what I love.