BMW’s first ‘R80’ (nominally 800cc) model was the R80/7 introduced in 1977 as replacement for the 750cc R75/7. Like its predecessor, the R80/7 was powered by BMW’s traditional air-cooled flat-twin engine coupled to low-maintenance shaft final drive transmission. Following the introduction of the R80G/S enduro bike in 1980, the R80 family was extended further by the R80ST and R80RT, the latter being a long-distance tourer equipped with the capacious fairing first seen on the R100RT. New for 1982, the R80RT was up-dated for 1984, gaining the wheels, forks and ‘monolever’ single-sided swinging arm of the K-series. Engineered to BMW’s customarily high standards, the revised R80RT was far from cheap and at £3,620 cost 50% more than Kawasaki’s similarly shaft-driven Z750GT tourer. “So far as I’m concerned the R80s have class, charm, ample power for everyday use, shaft drive, large fuel tanks and scarcely a pound of excess flab,” opined Bike’ magazine’s tester back in 1985. Never used in the wet and carefully kept in dry storage since the mid-1990s, this immaculate example of BMW’s smooth, middleweight super-tourer is presented in excellent, ‘as new’ condition throughout. Offered with Swansea V5.
BMW’s first ‘R80’ (nominally 800cc) model was the R80/7 introduced in 1977 as replacement for the 750cc R75/7. Like its predecessor, the R80/7 was powered by BMW’s traditional air-cooled flat-twin engine coupled to low-maintenance shaft final drive transmission. Following the introduction of the R80G/S enduro bike in 1980, the R80 family was extended further by the R80ST and R80RT, the latter being a long-distance tourer equipped with the capacious fairing first seen on the R100RT. New for 1982, the R80RT was up-dated for 1984, gaining the wheels, forks and ‘monolever’ single-sided swinging arm of the K-series. Engineered to BMW’s customarily high standards, the revised R80RT was far from cheap and at £3,620 cost 50% more than Kawasaki’s similarly shaft-driven Z750GT tourer. “So far as I’m concerned the R80s have class, charm, ample power for everyday use, shaft drive, large fuel tanks and scarcely a pound of excess flab,” opined Bike’ magazine’s tester back in 1985. Never used in the wet and carefully kept in dry storage since the mid-1990s, this immaculate example of BMW’s smooth, middleweight super-tourer is presented in excellent, ‘as new’ condition throughout. Offered with Swansea V5.
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