BMW R1100S

The BMW R1100S is a sports motorcycle that BMW Motorrad manufactured between 1998 and 2005. Introduced some 25 years after the R90S, the company's first sports bike, it was the first BMW with clip-on handlebars, rearset footrests and a removable cowl over the pillion seat, and with nearly 100 hp it has been described as a sporty sports-tourer. Its engine is a flat-twin oilhead with air-cooled cylinders and oil-cooled heads, derived from the R1100RS: 1,085 cc, fuel-injected, eight valves and tuned for 98 horsepower (73 kW) at 8,400 rpm, BMW's most powerful boxer engine to that date and the first mated to a six-speed transmission derived from the K1200RS. Besides using the engine as a stressed member it has a composite aluminium frame, Telelever front suspension with a monoshock on the wishbone and a Paralever single-sided rear swingarm with shaft drive; engines built after 2003 had dual ignition.