!1980s sport tourers?
About 18 years ago was when I started rapidly expanding my riding experiences with a large number of vintage bikes.
Austro Daimler offered what they called 'fast touring' bikes - Vent Noir + Olympian and others.
Raleigh and Holdsworth offered many models over the 70s boom years and beyond to that genre.
The Europeans as well with practicality over pure speed.

Then there has always been - the French Fit.

the main issue with most, but not all, Sport/Tourers was that they were not built with the best (read most expensive) tubesets.

Fast touring '83 VN - Merckx with 'Century' geometry

And French fit, gets marks for Endurance. Regardless of the decade.