BMW introduced the fuel injected F650GS in 2000 following BMW 's win in the 1999 Dakar Rally with a heavily modified F650RR ridden by Richard Sainct . A taller , more off-road biased Dakar version was introduced which included a taller screen , 21 inch front wheel and longer suspension travel . BMW re-branded the single-cylinder bike as the G650GS in some markets following the launch of the parallel twin-cylinder models in 2008 . In 2010 , at the EICMA show in Italy , BMW Motorrad announced the global availability of the G650GS with a slightly down-rated engine producing
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