Even the stateliest grand tourer can be turned into a scrambler. This example is a 1977 BMW R100/7 owned by Frank, from Kandel in Germany. He bought the bike in 1983, with just 5,000km on the clock; the BMW is now up to 196,000 km, without any issues apart from a gearbox defect last year. Frank lowered the forks 6 cm, and made a new sub-frame, seat and license plate bracket. He also fitted Tomaselli bars, Koso digital instruments, Dunlop Trailmax tires, a Ducati rear fender, and a fuel-tank from a BMW /5. The muffler is a Supertrapp and it sounds unbelievable: check out this YouTube video to hear it for yourself (at 1:02 in).
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17 Comments
To customise an old boxer like this is the top of my list for the next project – what a cool bike.
I absolutely love old BMWs, and this Scrambler take on one is perfect!
I loaded the video to hear this “unbelievable” exhaust. Meh. Until 1:10 when he gives it some revs – wow! Not sure I’ve ever hear a boxer sound that good. Excellent job.
That sounded great! What an awesome project.
Here’s a good starting bike if you’re in New Zealand: http://bit.ly/cxtWRV
please stop posting big money waste bikes on this site.
yeah! stop posting exceptional bikes on here!
I love this site and all the posts. All the bikes may not be my taste but i love the variety. Please don’t limit your scope, and thanks for the sweet bikes!
funnily the next video is the same bike, as a “flattracker.” A black HD sportster tank and a black sidecover does the transformation. Wonder if he also did it as a cafe racer?
I love this somewhat disrespectful treatment of a ‘proper’ bike. BMWs are great machines, but I love that someone was able to tastefully hack one of the classics into a different version of itself. And the exhaust note, nice and angry! Superb.
Just bought a nice R80RT on Ebay fully refurbished….until I pull it apart.
http://7agescustommotorcycles.blogspot.com/2010/02/bmw-custom-bike-no-7.html
my type of girl_oups of bike
congratulations
Thanks for the video link Chris, adds something more to the postings.
The looks is one thing and hearing the engine is something else.
However, I realize that it’s probably much harder for an editor to select a video with decent quality. IMHO, fix focus, stable shooting videos could be more appropriate for bikeexif.com’s concept, kinda like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOb_P77RcKo&feature=related
Awesome bike!
Looks nice without a rider on it! Ever wonder why no video with a rider on these type BMW projects? Seems to me the setup is terrible for the rider’s legs. Really cramped.
Dude, we need to get one of these in to my motorcycle rental shop in los angeles.
I’m tearing apart and rebuilding a Husqvarna right now that is completely rusted, but otherwise looks to be in perfect condition — it’s gonna be a scrambler for sure, but I need to figure out how. Any all ideas are more than welcome. Especially from Frank!
It just shows how creative people can be and not just chop a bike up like I see so many do and then believe it looks good, this guy knew what looked good and did it, great job!
Great looking bike – and like Demarco says, a nice change from a chop job!