BMW R90S

Hans Muth's R 90 S, built from late 1973 to 1976, showed that a sober touring brand could look fast. Its small cockpit fairing on the handlebars came fitted as standard, and the bike is widely credited as the first production motorcycle sold with a factory fairing. The smoky silver paint of the early bikes gave it a look no other boxer had; Daytona Orange joined it from 1975. It belongs here because it made the fairing part of a factory sport bike's identity, and because Muth later co-founded Target Design, the studio behind the Suzuki Katana. A small fairing and a paint scheme did a great deal to change how BMW motorcycles were seen.