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[[BMW]], normally a highly conservative [[motorcycle]] company, with very infrequent model changes, and its devotion to its original concept (BMW has used transverse flat-twin power units since the first R32 was built in 1923) could lay the Munich firm open to the accusation that it doesn't innovate. However, nothing could be further from the truth. BMW has often headed some of tile most dramatic developments in the evolution of motorcycles. | [[BMW]], normally a highly conservative [[motorcycle]] company, with very infrequent model changes, and its devotion to its original concept (BMW has used transverse flat-twin power units since the first [[BMW R32|R32]] was built in 1923) could lay the Munich firm open to the accusation that it doesn't innovate. However, nothing could be further from the truth. BMW has often headed some of tile most dramatic developments in the evolution of motorcycles. | ||
==Logical Evolution== | ==Logical Evolution== | ||
In contrast to the Japanese marques, BMWs strategy is not to emulate successes but to concentrate on the logical, functional evolution of its models. They create without copying. One of their most fundamental steps was made in 1976 with the launch of the R100 RS, a sports/grand touring bike where, for the first time on a machine produced in large numbers, the fairing was not just a bolt on | In contrast to the Japanese marques, BMWs strategy is not to emulate successes but to concentrate on the logical, functional evolution of its models. They create without copying. One of their most fundamental steps was made in 1976 with the launch of the R100 RS, a sports/grand touring bike where, for the first time on a machine produced in large numbers, the fairing was not just a bolt on | ||