Taking It Slow: Kingston Custom’s BMW R75/5 Bobber
Today’s motorcycles are loaded with a level of tech that would have been incomprehensible thirty years ago. And it’s had a knock-on…
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Ironwood’s new BMW Boxer goes with the grain
There’s a trend that’s picked up speed amazingly fast this year: wood on motorcycles. It’s tricky to pull off, but when it’s…
Read more »All About The Patina: Nico Mueller’s BMW R75/5
We love seeing custom builders’ personal rides. Most of these guys spend their days wrestling with the restrictions of commissioned work, so…
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Stunt Double: A BMW homage to the Breitling Jet Team
Let’s face it: custom motorcycles are eye candy. And the eye candy doesn’t get much better than this new build from Fuller…
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Jung Gun: A psychologist’s custom BMW
Believe it or not, there’s a surf shop in Stockholm. And even stranger, it’s got a motorcycle workshop right underneath. Despite the…
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Funktional: Tim Harney’s no-frills BMW R75/6
Many custom motorcycle builders didn’t start out as such. Tim Harney’s one of them: in his past life, he worked as an…
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Recall: A BMW R75 dressed to kill
As classic BMWs go, the “slash-5s” are pretty sought after. They’re packed with little styling details that eventually fell away on later…
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Shed-built 1973 BMW R75/5
The notion of building one’s own custom motorcycle is romantic—but not without its pitfalls. Some shed-builders run out of budget. Others struggle…
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1972 BMW R75/5: a ‘Traditional Custom’ from Brandon Mungai
There’s something magical about a classic 70s BMW airhead: Slightly oddball lines, that remarkable engine, and the promise of fine German engineering.…
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BMW R75/6 by Maria Motorcycles
You don’t see many vintage BMWs with red frames. But to my eyes, this R75/6 strangely works. The project comes from Portugal’s…
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BMW R75/7 by Clutch Custom
Building a custom motorcycle is about judgment: knowing what to change, what to leave alone, and when to stop. It’s about proportions,…
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BMW R75/6 by Kingston Custom
Custom motorcycle builders in the USA and UK have relatively few restrictions on what they can and cannot do. Then you have…
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