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BMW R90S 1976

A beautiful example of BMW’s flagship head turner from the 70’s! The BMW R90s in the best colour Daytona Orange, sporting lots of maintenance receipts from both her early life in Germany and more recently here in the UK, showing 23,970km on the clock and complete with owner handbooks and BMW luggage. The R90s runs and rides as superbly as you would expect from such a well turned out machine she is not one to be missed!

With the introduction of the ‘/6’ range in 1973, BMW joined the superbike league with a pair of 900cc flat-twins. The touring version was typed ‘R90/6’ and the gorgeous new sportster ‘R90S’. With its twin front disc brakes, racing-style seat, megaphone-shaped silencers and cockpit fairing, the R90S looked like no BMW before it, while the air-brushed ‘smoke’ custom finish to tank, seat and fairing meant that no two examples left the factory exactly alike. With 67bhp on tap, the R90S was good for a maximum speed of more than 125mph. True, there were a handful of rivals that were faster, but none of them could match the BMW’s capacity for sustained high-speed cruising. ‘When it comes to comfort and capability for traveling at maximum speed with minimum fatigue, the R90S is second to none,’ declared Bike magazine’s tester back in 1975. ‘The truth is that many bikes do one thing superbly, but the BMW is the only bike I know that does everything very well.’

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