Beschreibung:

Just a few years after introducing the R90/6 and 'luxury' Daytona Orange and TT Silver Smoke R90S, BMW upped the capacity of its range-topping flat-twins to 980 cc for the 1977 season in the form of the R100/7 series, the flagship of this new line-up being the fully-faired R100RS 'superbike.' Although styled like a super-sports machine, the R100RS was more of a sports-tourer, which did it no harm whatsoever in BMW's traditional market sector. 'BMWs have always managed to give you a unique and almost uncanny feeling of complete security and stability at speed,' observed Bike magazine's Peter Watson. 'The ability to maintain cruising speeds of over 100 mph for as long as your licence holds out must be one of the machine's most attractive features. The RS even manages to improve on this reputation.' Extensive wind tunnel testing took place to get the fairing right – it ultimately set a standard the industry copied – in the Stuttgart Technical University and in Pininfarina's tunnel in Italy. The R100RS stayed in production through model year 1992. In that last year about 1,000 were made, eight times fewer units, it might be said, than the 'naked' R100R released as an 'interim' model before the soon to be launched R259 series. Its horsepower rating was 60 at 6,5000 rpm with a pair of Bing V64/32 carburetors and electronic ignition. At 505 pounds wet it would reach 115 mph. This example has been carefully stored indoors since new, and has never been run on public roads since delivery.