Overlander: A BMW G/S built for serious adventure travel

Nothing grows knowledge like experience. So the best way to figure out how to design a continent-crossing motorcycle, is to actually cross a continent—then see what works, and what doesn't. Back in 2016, Matias Corea rode his 1985 BMW R80G/S Paris Dakar from Brooklyn all the way to Ushuaia, in Argentina. Now he's got another trip planned: a 22,000-mile journey from his native Barcelona to Cape Town in South Africa. So he's taken the lessons from his first trip, and built his vision of the ultimate adventure airhead. “After 20,000 miles in 168 days, you get a clear idea of...