First fully faired sports-tourer that became the ultimate superbike of the mid-1970s

The BMW R100RS was one of the outstanding bikes of the ’70s – and the boxer remains a seriously impressive long-distance machine today

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Massively inclined engine, five valves per cylinder and almost vertical intakes. So is Yamaha’s FZ750 something truly special?

In the late 1970s, Maserati hit upon a radical, borderline blasphemous idea. What if it hit pause on building very interesting sports cars and grand tourers that many people admired but no one bought.