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Bavaria takes aim at the cruiser market

“…any cruiser that does well in America, does well everywhere else.”

Maybe that sheet wasn’t entirely clean, because there’s an unmistakable family likeness cloned from the R5 of 1934 – a styling distinctively BMW. But this is not just black with white pin stripes on a teardrop fuel tank; there’s acres of chrome, extending from the cylinder heads to a pair of the longest, meanest-looking exhaust pipes/mufflers you’ve ever seen.

The incredibly successful R nineT can also take some credit for

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