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BMW R1200ST

sport touring motorcycle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ796679 ↗
Source-derived summary

The BMW R1200ST is a sport touring motorcycle, which was introduced in 2005 by BMW Motorrad to replace the R1150RS model. The R1200ST features the same 1,170 cc (71 cu in) flat-twin engine, a six-speed gearbox and shaft drive as the R1200RT.

Though similar in specification to the RT, the ST is a sport-oriented motorcycle, with clip-on style handle bars, lighter fairing, resulting in an overall lighter weight than the RT. Luggage, in the form of panniers and a top box (or case) were available options. ABS braking was also an option for this model.

The styling was controversial, especially the hexagon-shaped vertical headlight. Motor Cycle News referred to the styling as "quirky".

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “BMW R1200ST” as sport touring motorcycle. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where R1200ST, sport and touring can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as sport touring motorcycle. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q796679. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “BMW R1200ST” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.