Black Cycles Australia builds a John Player Brick… The BMW K100 — aka the “Flying Brick” — remains one of the more peculiar designs to roll out of the Bavarian Motor Works factory. Conceived […]
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Unique & Functional: “Indigo” BMW R80 Roadster
Rebuilt R80 from Gas & Oil Bespoke Motorcycles… The BMW type 247 “airhead” engine has become a motorcycling icon. The engine powered BMW motorcycles for decades, and while it never knocked anyone’s socks off from […]
Backcountry Shredder: BMW R100RS Scrambler
Oldschool Classics builds the perfect backroad burner… The BMW R100RS was Motorrad’s 980cc sport-tourer, built around a 70-hp version of the two-valve flat-twin boxer engine. Even in its heyday, the Bavarian boxer wasn’t as fast […]
Bavarian Bruiser: Hand-Built BMW K100 Special
Retrofuturist K100 from AG Design Fab… BMW Motorrad has never been one to follow the flock, and the K series put that outside-the-box thinking on prime display. In the early 1980s, BMW needed a […]
Mistress of the Dark: “Elvira” BMW R100/7 Café Racer
From Wolfsmiths: Slash 7 Tribute to an 80s Hot Rod… If there’s one thing we love, it’s hearing stories of bikes that guys hot-rodded back in the day when they weren’t vintage, but of […]
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 […]
Bahn Burner: BMW K1100RS Café Racer
Bolt 80: 16-Valve K-Bike from Bolt Motor Co… The BMW K1100RS was the most technologically advanced “Flying Brick” to emerge from Berlin, featuring the 16-valve head from the K1, Paralever rear end, Motronic EFI […]
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, […]
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 […]
