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The Complete Book of BMW Motorcycles offers a thorough year-by-year guide to every production machine ever built by Germany’s leading motorcycle manufacturer.This comprehensive review covers all of BMW's bike families:The side-valve machines from the early yearsThe early overhead-valve performance bikesThe modern Airheads and OilheadsThe four-cylinder and six-cylinder touring bikesThe early pushrod singlesThe modern overhead-cam singlesThe latest parallel twins, and inline-four cylinder sport bikesAmong them, you'll find all the classic bikes—pre-World War II BMWs like the R5 that defined performance in that era; the military R12 that carried the Wehrmacht as it blitzkrieged its way across Europe; the Earles-forked R69S that offered the perfect platform for mounting a Steib sidecar; the R90S cafe racer; the K1 “flying brick”; and the GS (Gelande Sport) series that launched a dual-sport revolution right up to today’s world-class S100RR and retro-inspired R nine T.