Sport-tourers — fairing and luggage on a sportbike chassis. Real-world fast bikes that can also do 600 miles in a day.
Sport-tourers are what most ADVs pretend to be: real-world fast bikes with fairings and luggage that can do 600 miles in a day without ruining you. FJR1300, Ninja 1000 SX, S 1000 XR, Versys 1000, Tracer 9 GT+, GSX-S1000 GT, and now the Honda NT1100 DCT cover the spread.
The case for a sport-tourer over an ADV: lower seat, better aero, faster, lighter, more focused on tarmac, often more comfortable on a long highway run. The case against: less ground clearance, less off-road option (that you weren't going to use), often stiffer suspension.
This category has quietly become one of the strongest in motorcycling. The NT1100 at $11,899 and the Ninja 1000 SX at $13,099 are arguably the best value motorcycles in their bracket, doing everything most people want a bike to do for less than mid-range nakeds.
1298cc inline four
890cc CP3 triple
1043cc inline four
999cc inline four
1043cc inline four
999cc inline four (GSX-R derived)
660cc inline triple (Trident-derived)
798cc inline triple
Sprint 900 → Sprint ST 1050. Discontinued in US.
1237cc V4 (DCT option)
1084cc parallel twin (Africa Twin derived) · DCT only US
1042cc liquid-cooled transverse V-twin (rotated heads)
998cc inline-four — killed 1999, no direct successor
998cc supercharged inline-four — only forced-induction sport-tourer
1052cc inline-four — fastest production motorcycle 1990, killed 2001
1441cc inline-four — most powerful Japanese N/A four ever, killed 2020
955-1050cc inline-three sport-tourer — killed 2018
1157cc inline-four — BMW's first transverse-four sportbike, killed 2008
1293cc inline-four — last K-Series sportbike, killed 2016
599cc inline-four — 18-yr mid-budget sport-tourer, killed 2006
998cc V-twin (RSV Mille engine) — sport-tourer, killed 2004
891cc air-cooled inline-four — UK budget sport-tourer, killed 2003
800cc V-twin with integrated trunk — unique tourer, killed 1998
1300cc shift-cam boxer sport-tourer — 2025 launch
