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 R80
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 […]
G/S Rally Adventure: BMW R80GS Restomod
For Sale: BMW R80GS “Rally Adventure” from Codex Moto… Introduced in 1980, the BMW R80G/S is widely considered the world’s first “Adventure Bike.” While early naysayers questioned the use of a 400-lb multi-cylinder machine built […]
AdaMAANtina: BMW R80 Custom Roadster
An Atypical Airhead from Sardinia… The Italian island of Sardinia (Sardegna) is home to one of our favorite builder collectives, Motocicli Audaci (MAAN), a “testing laboratory for special motorbikes and daring motorcyclists.” The team is […]
Problem Child: Father / Daughter BMW R80 Roadster
A trophy-winning roadster from 20-y.o. Cheyenne Keogh of CKM Designs… Motorcycles have a unique way of binding families together. BikeBound itself started as something of a father-son venture many years ago, and we’ve always […]
She Who is Powerful: “Sekhmet” BMW R80
Fit for a Goddess: 72 HKG Performance’s BMW Boxer… Sekhmet was an Egyptian goddess of war and healing, often depicted in the form of a lioness or woman with a lion’s head. Her name can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
