Beatson pilots a
BMW victory the
1983 Stuarttoseries, frishing in
"Battle of the Twins"
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the top three in each of the eleYen
races. Afeat made aM the more
impressive by the fact that Beatson
often "commutes" 6,000 miles from
race to race on the same BMW.
(Beatson's BMW ,Prepared and supported by Morton s BMW.)
1976
\!Is, riding a BMW R69S wins
f."1 of Silverstone. the first of
Pes that summer-including the
Ie at Barcelona.
Steve Mclaughlin
and Reg Pridmore
score a spectacular
double victory for
BMW in the Daytona
"Superbike" Race.
In 1972,
an extraordinary
museum opened its
doors in Munich,
'I Germany. Extraordinary because its sole
purpose was to pre• serve the heritage of a
motorcycle company.
Room after room.
Floor upon floor. All devoted to the archives, the
newsreels, the feats and
the celebrated machines of
a single manufacturer: the
Bavarian Motor Works.
While every motorcycle
company has had its moments of glory, BMW's
"moments" have become
decades. Decades in which
BMW machines have built
a legacy so rich it not only
inspired a museum to be
built but no fewer than 10
books to be written on the
company's history.
The BMW history is,
of course, tbe history of a
single ingeniously simple
engine: the horizon-
tally-opposed twin.
Strikingly short of moving parts, the opposed twin
has the resulting ability to
keep moving. To not only attain high speeds but to sustain them.
From its unveiling at the
1923 Paris Motor Show to
BMW's victory in the 1983
Battle of the Twins, the opposed twin has powered
BMWs to literally thousands
of world records and international cups over the
course of 60 years.
Years that are well worth
keeping in mind the next
time you happen to be considering the purchase of a
new motorcycle.
After all, the best way to
judge a motorcycle's future
is simply to look at its past.
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