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- Ready to go on an adventure
- Crash protection with Driving lights
- Touring screen
- luggage mounts does not come with the luggage.

“If you want to ride the more challenging off-road route you need to wear motocross boots,” the BMW lady had insisted, politely but firmly, before we set off. I’m glad of my hefty footwear as I take a quick dab, then bash my boot on a rock as the GS grunts out of a rut with a shower of stones, before charging on up a bumpy dirt trail in the hills near Almeria, Spain.

Sturdy boots are useful in such situations, but what’s helping most on this fantastic afternoon’s dirt riding in southern Spain is the bike. BMW is billing the R1200GS Rallye as the “sportiest series production GS of all time,” by which they’re referring to its unprecedented off-road ability. And it’s difficult to argue with that.

Along with comparably well-equipped but contrastingly street-focused GS Exclusive that we’ve already tested on the Andalucian roads, the Rallye represents an attempt to broaden the boxer’s appeal still further with more precisely targeted models.

“The GS is known as a motorbike you can do everything with, and our idea was to enlarge this, or at least to give the customer more choice,” says Reiner Fings, the GS Product Manager. “We now have so many GS customers, and everybody is different. So we took the chance to offer the GS in a range that is more diverse and interesting.”