Radikal Klassisch: Moto Essence’s BMW R80 roadster
Every style of custom motorcycle has a clear-cut formula, but we like it best when builders tear up the blueprint and blur…
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Ricky 800: Imagining a Rickman BMW R80 desert racer
The world’s first big-bore dual sport, the BMW R80G/S, broke cover forty years ago. Born from off-road competition, it soon dominated at…
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Dark Matter: A blacked-out BMW R80 bobber from Untitled
Untitled Motorcycles is not your standard custom outfit. Output is hardly prolific, but the bikes invariably create ripples. And the founders operate…
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Unkonventionell: Eastern Spirit Garage’s BMW R80
Eastern Spirit Garage is probably Poland’s premier custom workshop. But they focus on quality over quantity, with fewer than a dozen builds…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 10 May, 2020
We’ve gone global this week, with a brutal BMW K100RS from Poland, a Triumph Scrambler with a desert sled vibe from Italy,…
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The Divisionist: Federal Moto’s first BMW bobber
Some custom shops crank out the same style of build, over and over again. But for Federal Moto that would be terminal.…
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The limits of endurance: A BMW R80 with Ducati flair
The Japanese custom scene continues to amaze us. Even though the internet shrinks the world, there are still gems in the East…
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The Best of the Outlier’s Guild Motorcycle Show
The custom moto show scene is booming in the US. Off the top of our heads there’s the Brooklyn Invitational on the…
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Diff’rent Strokes: Vagabund Moto bucks the BMW trend
BMW airhead customs are like AC/DC songs: after a while, it’s hard to tell them all apart. And that’s not necessarily a…
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Sidecar: A classic cocktail from Kingston Custom
Kingston’s classic BMWs are elegant customs that take our breath away, time after time. But there’s something we haven’t seen Dirk Oehlerking…
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20 Not Out: The Made-to-Order BMWs of Diamond Atelier
A year ago, we revealed Diamond Atelier’s new ‘Mark II’ series of BMW café racers. Based on the classic R-series, the Mark…
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Africa Shox: A hard-charging R80G/S from Cape Town
On Saturday, the Dakar Rally kicks off in Lima, Peru. It’s the 40th edition of the notorious race, and a lot has…
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