Another air-cooled GS with a flat twin engine is coming—and Motorrad magazine says they have photos.

We won’t run it here, but if you head to the Google Translate version of the Motorrad article here, you can see the photo. And it’s an interesting snap indeed! Motorrad says they had their first photo of this bike three years ago, and that a recent sit-down with the big boss at BMW kinda-sorta confirmed that it’s coming.

Here’s Google’s slightly garbled translation of the write-up:

What Markus Flasch basically confirmed in the interview in March 2024, MOTORRAD probably already had in front of its lens in the summer of 2021: an enduro with an air-cooled boxer , 21 inch (53.34 cm) front wheel and – known since the presentation of the new R 12 nineT – a new framework. Overall, significantly more HP2 Enduro than Urban G/S, and these were the last two reduced Boxer concepts as Enduro. In 2021 it was a spy with no specific reference, today it is a more or less confirmed new model.

Again, you can read the whole thing here.

That part, about it being more HP2 Enduro than it is Urban G/S, is quite interesting. The Urban G/S was a repackaging of the R nineT’s engine into a sort of street scrambler with retro desert bike looks. It was not a proper off-roader, though. And that’s something that many people would like to see—a modern equivalent to the old R80-R100-R1100-R1150 models, with less emphasis on technology (and maybe a lower price tag, too). A ride-by-wire throttle is likely, and an oil cooler, but we’d also perhaps expect no IMU and certainly no adaptive cruise control or anything like that.

No doubt a modern air-cooled GS would run some evolution of the R 12 nineT model, and since that model is spreading across global markets, we’d expect this GS (or maybe it’ll be a G/S?) will be revealed soon, perhaps as early as this year’s show circuit.