From Blue Racer to Black Scrambler… Back in 2020, we featured a 1979 BMW R100RT “Blue Racer” from Sebastien Ledis of France’s Seb’s Atelier. Though Sebastien is a bit of a Ducati aficionado, the iconic […]
Tag: BMW Airheads
Bavarian Beast: BMW R100GS Restomod
“The best combination of old airhead reliability, modern electrics, and suspension.” There are builders who are always jumping from one two-wheeled platform to another, never seeming to modify the same type of bike twice. Then […]
Boxer Bobber: BMW R100C by Zamarelli Moto
Last month, we featured coverage of Glory Daze 2021 — a killer motorcycle show in Pittsburgh that featured over 150 garage-built custom bikes. One of the standouts was a gorgeous blue “Boxer Bobber” from a […]
Dakar Dreams: BMW R80G/S Paris-Dakar Tribute
Roadburner Garage builds a Paris-Dakar tribute machine… The first running of the Paris-Dakar Rally took place in 1978, when 182 competitors (including 90 motorcycles) started from Place du Trocadéro, Paris, for the 6000-mile journey to […]
“Survivor” Springer: BMW R100 Café Racer
Lord Drake Kustoms builds a BMW R springer… The BMW R100 has become one of the world’s most popular donors for custom transformations, appearing in a wide variety of modes and styles: café racer, scrambler, […]
Slash-5 Animal: Motobrix BMW R75/5
Transforming a Slash-5 from “tame touring bike into a bit of an animal.” In 1970, BMW introduced the Slash-5 series, which included the R50/5 (500cc), R60/5 (600cc), and the R75/5 (750cc). The bikes were a […]
Bavarian Blackout: BMW R80 by Burn Up Company
BUC It: Burn Up Company’s burly BMW, built for sidecar adventures… In the mid-1980s, BMW replaced the twin-shock rear suspension on their airhead models with a monolever (single-shock) system, whose asymmetric design was meant to […]
BMW R80 “Nightmare” by NIKS Motorcycles
The BMW airheads, powered by their flat-twin boxer engines and shaft drives, have become icons in the motoring world. Airheads have won the Paris-Dakar Rally, the AMA Superbike Championship, and circumnavigated the globe countless […]
Flying Machine: BMW R80 “Black Wasp”
For Sale: “Black Wasp” by IronGas x Haute Tension Motorcycles… The BMW airhead is an icon in the world of motorcycling, an air-cooled flat-twin that’s proven itself all over the world, from the remote terrain […]
Algarve Airhead: BMW R65 Roadster by RW Motorcycles
A classy airhead from Portugal’s Algarve Coast… In 1978, BMW introduced the R65 as a 650 middleweight to the airhead lineup. While the bike had the same frame as the larger R-series machines, it had […]
