ROAD TESTS

22 BMW K100RS

Pearly paint, plus stiffer suspension, courtesy of the K75.

40 Suzuki GSX-R1100R

Floats like a butterfly, stings like a hand grenade.

SPECIAL FEATURE

12 America’s Choice

Best-selling '87bikes: which, why. who, where, what?!

FEATURES

29 Daredevil

1 Daring ’' Danny Wade s big leap into uncertainty.

By Chris Hodenfield

35 Backroads

Following the moody rhythms of the Bluegrass State.

By H.R. Nett

39 Product Evaluation: Lobo Products

Helmet Sunglasses

A five-and-dime idea that sells for $5.95, plus tacks.

47 Totalled Or Not: No Easy Answer

Examining $2703 worth of CBR dings and divots.

By Tim Carrithers

50 Project Hurricane: CBR Chassis Tune-Up

Cycle’s ‘ ‘other" CBR prepares for Willow.

By Ken Vreeke

54 Rebuilt And Running, But Not By The Book

The cheapest self-insurance is a ticket to the junkyard.

By Mark Lindemann

66 The Danforth Bill

The good Senator and his ‘ ‘killer bikes ’' crusade.

By Paul Gordon

75 Big Apple Bikes

We sent a photographer to New York and all we got

were these pictures.... By Joe Terranova

57 Off To The Future: Ducati’s Fuel-Injected 850

Feeding Italy’s hot four-valver.

By Bruno de Prato

61 Fl Primer

Fuel injection s deepest mysteries laid bare.

By Mark Lindemann

DEPARTMENTS

7 Editorial/B/g Brother's Keeper/Phil Schilling

8 TDC/ Racer If/Kevin Cameron

10 Letters/Goons Vs. Geeks

20 Head On/ Professor Honda/Michael Miller

70 Newsline/Flexible Spending/Tim Carrithers

the K100RS is a motorcycle rooted in

practical reality. Yamaha’s FZR1000

makes a much better vehicle for living

out fast-track fantasies. Honda's CBR-

1000 covers all the Grand Touring bases

and then some. Big deal.

The view from Munich, now or years

from now, holds constant—we don’t

care how they do it in Japan. So BMW

builds its own kind of classic sporting

express: a balanced package of power

and comfort for effortless roadwork; a

motorcycle devoid of transient style and

gimmickry; a machine to bear years of

use with grace; a motorcycle dealers will

still carry parts for in ten years; a ma-

chine so unique, so much its own thing

today, that it will be timeless a decade

from now.

Our test bike is a 1987 model, up-

dated to functional 1988 specifications

with the addition of stiffer suspension

from the K75S. The fork uses stiffer

spring and damping rates inside the

same 41-millimeter tubes, producing 5.3

inches of travel—two inches less than

the 1987 RS. Internals are oriented like

those of the K75 fork: damping rods in

the left leg, a dummy spring guide in the

right. Each leg carries two springs, a

long progressive-rate coil under a...