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 […]
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Production Unibike: BMW R OneT
BMW Motorrad has announced plans to fund development of their BMW R OneT and R1250GS One Wheel concepts with production aimed for early 2023. First shown in 2019, the one-wheeled BMW concept bike utilized a […]
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 […]
Oro Metallizzato: 860cc BMW R65LS Custom
Flashbike: An exquisitely modified “860LS” hits the BaT auction block… In the late 1970s, a new term was coined for the bold breed of motorcycle leaping onto the scene, with radical style and high performance, […]
M Performance: BMW K1100 Café Racer
Jerem Motorcycles builds a 1093cc BMW Café Racer… The BMW K series earned the nickname “Flying Brick” for the unorthodox engine layout, which situated an automotive-inspired inline-four engine flat on its side in the engine […]
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 […]
Special K: BMW K1100LT Cafe Racer by Lys Motorcycles
Staid to Sleek… We’ve covered the interesting history of the BMW K-series bikes in the past. They were a radical departure for BMW in the 1980s. After decades of relying on their horizontally-opposed Boxer machines, […]
Dark Pearl: BMW K100LT by Rusty Pipes Garage
“Imagine riding a wild animal dressed up in a tuxedo…” The BMW K series remains an interesting piece of motorcycling history and technology. In the late 1970s, BMW Motorrad was worried about their iconic Airhead […]
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 […]
