From SWT-Sports: Dirt-Ready Boxer for an Enduro veteran… The BMW R80G/S is well-known as the grandfather of the modern adventure bike. True, there was no shortage of strange looks when the original G/S was […]
Tag: BMW Airheads
100th Anniversary Airhead: BMW R100 Special
100th Anniversary R100 from Bolt Motor Co… The BMW R100 is the 1000cc version of the beloved “airhead” machine. Over the years, these flat-twin engines have become nothing short of iconic. They last forever, can […]
Little Bavarian: 1000cc BMW R80 Cafe Racer
James Dean-inspired Boxer from Mr. Ludolf… In 1955, just as he was finishing the film Giant, James Dean bought himself a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder dubbed “Little Bastard.” Though most of us know the […]
EnduroBoxer: BMW R100GS Restomod Enduro
Street-Legal GS Enduro Racer from SWT-Sports… The BMW R80G/S, which helped spawn the adventure bike class and dominated several early years of the Paris-Dakar Rally, owed much to the “Red Devil” of BMW engineer Laszlo […]
Dakar Dream: Germany to Dakar on 2-Valve Boxers!
Reliving the Paris-Dakar Rally route with SWT Sports… In 1978, 182 vehicles embarked from Paris’s Place du Trocadéro bound for the Senegalese capital of Dakar, a 10,000-kilometer journey that would take them across Algeria, Niger, […]
Slash 5 Sport: BMW “R100/5” Roadster
BMW R100 “Slash 5” by Rind Performance… For the 1970 model year, BMW introduced their new /5 (“Slash 5”) Series in three sizes: 500cc (R50/5), 600cc (R60/5), and 750cc (R75/5). A replacement for the old […]
God of Thunder: “Parom” BMW R100R Café Racer
For Sale: BMW Café Racer from Earth Motorcycles… The BMW R100R appeared in 1992, combining the proven chassis and flat-twin boxer engine of the GS with Showa suspension, Brembo brakes with floating discs, an electronic […]
White Spring: BMW R100 Roadster
Hand-built Boxer from Prague’s Gas & Oil Bespoke Motorcycles… The BMW R series of “airhead” boxers might be the most commonly customized class of vintage motorcycles in the world. In the wake of that popularity […]
Dähne Daily: 1065cc BMW Scrambler
Dähne-framed Daily Rider from Kradhaus Bikes… Born in 1944, Helmut Dähne is a BMW motorcycle racing legend. As a teenager, he went to work for BMW Motorrad as a mechanic and later went to German […]
Neo-Retro Nébula: BMW R100 Café Racer
For a man who only works on his builds three days per week, Jérémie Duchampt of Jerem Motorcycles consistently turns out some of the most well-executed projects on the planet. The Frenchman began his bike-building […]
