BMW 1974 R90S 898cc 2 cyl OHV 3505

BMW 1974 R90S 898cc OHV transverse twin  frame & engine #4072323

With its twin front disc brakes, racing-style seat, megaphone-shaped silencers and cockpit fairing, the R90S looks like no BMW before it, and the air-brushed ‘smoke’ custom finish to tank, seat and fairing means that no two examples leave the factory exactly alike.

The first R90S models have two-tone paintwork scheme of “Smoke Black/Silver” with adhesive gold pinstripes. Feedback from unimpressed customers prompts BMW to return to hand painted pinstripes. Later R90S models become available also in two-tone “Daytona Orange” with red pinstriping. The R90S has a redesigned seat, with a small “ducktail” fairing which (in addition to an underseat tool tray) provides a small storage space for lightweight items such as waterproofs. Standard equipment includes a full toolkit, a hand pump, a first-aid kit and even a small hand towel with an embroidered BMW logo.

A Quote from a R90S road test: “Quite surprising is the compactness and narrowness when sat upon the Beemer, what looks like a very big bike as you approach it becomes nothing more than a powerful middleweight once sat upon it. The bars are hardly wider than your shoulders and the footrests, off set to match the cylinder spacing, incredibly close together, around five inches further in than anything the Japanese have to offer. Even the large capacity tank isn’t in any way bulky, achieving its five and a quarter gallon capacity with length and height rather than width. This instantly endears itself to the rider as you sit fully on the centre line of the machine making the bike feel balanced and not at all the capacity it is. At low speed the bike is so easy to keep upright there is hardly a need for that comforting foot down, U turns can be performed with consummate ease, feet up all the way, while sitting at junctions and traffic lights can often be done the same way, The engine configuration helping no end in this aspect with very little weight above mid shin height.”(from: Classic Motorbikes.net, https://classic-motorbikes.net/bmw-r90s/ ) The R90S is considered by many people to be the real “superbike of the seventies”. She wins many production races in the 1970s, when its 67hp @7000rpm is good for a top speed of more than 200 km/h.

The machine we present is a very well preserved, original-paint,  unrestored specimen with only 52847 kilometres on the clock. She comes with factory extras such as a small luggage rack on the ducktail, crash bars and pannier set.  Video: https://youtu.be/L5XSeHxePnw