A 1000cc Airhead for Kevin “Red Beard” Gillespie… Bryan Fuller of Atlanta’s Fuller Moto grew up in small town Texas, where he helped his dad rebuild a ’65 Ford Mustang at the age of 8 […]
Tag: BMW Airheads
Adventure Rig: BMW R100GS Paris Dakar Restomod
A 118,000-mile adventure rig from Eli Carver x Stasis Motorcycles… The BMW R100GS PD (Paris Dakar) was a beast of an adventure bike, combining the 980cc flat-twin boxer engine and paralever suspension of the highly […]
Gas & Retro: BMW Airhead Street Tracker
Slovenia’s Gas&Retro builds an R80 street tracker… The BMW “airheads” are some of the most iconic motorcycles of all time — modern classics that have won the Paris-Dakar Rally, raced in AMA Superbike, circumnavigated the […]
Descending Dragon II: BMW R75/5 “HaLong 2.0”
Destined for Handbuilt Show ’22: DT Motoworks’ Slash 5… The 1970 BMW R75/5 (“Slash 5”) was a landmark machine for the company, whose motorcycle designs had become dated in the years since WWII, still in […]
Super Boxer: BMW R100 “Flatbanger” 2.0
A Supermoto-inspired Boxer from Rind Performance… Back in 2019, we featured a BMW R100R “Flatbanger” from a young German tuner/builder named Robin Ludwig, who operates under the name Rind Performance. Robin had customized 13 bikes […]
Airhead Reborn: BMW R80RT by MotoBrix
MotoBrix rebuilds a botched BMW custom… Though the BMW airheads were considered modern classics even before their production ended in the late 1990s, engineers and enthusiasts probably never considered that the air-cooled boxers would have […]
Vineyard Chaser: BMW R100 by Seb’s Atelier
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 […]
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 […]
