I restored this to remind me of the one I had in the '80s. Lovely bike - great brakes (once de-linked) and seriously good handling on modern skinny Pirellis. It was this bike that reawakened my love of air-cooled twins. Shortly after getting the Le Mans on the road I sold both of my four cylinder bikes - this was one of them (the other was a Kawasaki...):
Great bike apart from the way it tried to cook your left leg in traffic. Bought myself an R100S "Exclusive Sport" to use as daily transport and ended up spending way too much - new tank, new paint, Lester cast alloys, Brembo front end.
No sooner got that looking nice when I was offered a '76 R90S - couldn't say no. It needed new paint and the wheels rebuilt but the motor pulls very strongly and I decided to keep as much original as possible so she wears her 72,000 miles with a bit of patina:
By this point I'd sold the R100S and my new daily ride looks like this:
Surely one of the most under-rated airheads, and the Hans Muth designed LS is destined to be a future classic. Here in the UK these bikes sell for a lot less than their bigger sisters, and truth be told this one handles and stops better than the R100S it replaced - albeit with slightly less power.
Last but not least, I was offered a newly restored '74 R90S which is now nearly running again thanks to much help from members of this forum. The fairing was removed to facilitate electrical fumbling:
