Fuel Motor BMW R100 RS TRACKER "Review MOTORCYCLES"

The BMW R100 RS was released into the maelstrom of the motorcycle international in the past due Nineteen Seventies – the japanese takeover become all but whole with the aid of this time and greater traditional eu and American marques had been struggling for close to a decade.

Fuel Motor BMW R100 RS TRACKER "Review MOTORCYCLES" 

Fuel Motor BMW R100 RS TRACKER "Review MOTORCYCLES"

The team at BMW Motorrad employed Hans Muth to are available in and design a brand new motorbike across the R100 architecture, he evolved a wind-tunnel honed, 9-piece, frame-installed fairing that basically modified the soul of the R100 – turning it into the pre-eminent visiting bike of the day. Even now almost forty years later, it’s still one of the great at what it does.

The coronary heart and soul of the BMW R100 RS is the iconic boxer airhead engine with a displacement of 980cc, 70 hp and 56 ft lbs of torque. This easy air-cooled engine turned into a BMW staple for decades, and its 2-valve, twin carburettor, shaft force layout made it smooth to keep, easy to restore, and smooth to modify.

The BMW R100 RS Tracker you notice right here is the work of gasoline bikes, a Barcelona-based totally custom bike storage with a dependancy of building a number of the maximum captivating scramblers and trackers we’ve visible in recent reminiscence. They also organise the yearly Scram Africa event – a motorbike journey throughout North Africa.

The fee for a BMW R100 RS Tracker came in from a Scotsman called Brendan, he desired a bike similar to the previous R100 constructed by gasoline but with a few distinct changes. A gas tank became sourced from a Kawasaki KH100 and it must be stated – it fits the R100 RS so flawlessly it seems like a stock factory unit.

Fuel Motor BMW R100 RS TRACKER "Review MOTORCYCLES" 

Fuel Motor BMW R100 RS TRACKER "Review MOTORCYCLES"

A new tracker seat become sourced and set up with a low profile seat and a pair of bespoke variety plates on each facet, a brand new set of exhaust headers had been then made in-house and geared up with a pair of small matching mufflers. So as to supply the new motorbike right potential off road the inventory forks were removed and changed with a pair from a BMW F650 GS, at the returned the stock springs were changed with a pair of matching Öhlins units.

The completed motorbike seems so picture best that I suppose it’ll probably inspire a number of other very similar builds, so in case you’ve been tossing up the idea of selecting up an R100 RS you might want to do it faster in place of later. If you’d want to see more from fuel motorcycles you can click on here to go to their reliable internet site.

XTR YAMAHA SR250 TRACKER "Review Motorbike"

The Yamaha SR250 is the little brother to the appreciably greater famous SR500 and SR400. Each of the SR motorcycles share a similar fundamental design – a single cylinder engine runs a single overhead camshaft which powers one valve in and one valve out, each of the SRs have a single exhaust pipe normally swept lower back at the proper hand side – and each of them have become a bread and butter staple of both motorcycle commuters and motorcycle customisers from Tokyo to Toledo.

XTR YAMAHA SR250 TRACKER "Review Motorbike" 

XTR YAMAHA SR250 TRACKER "Review Motorbike"

The SR250 you spot right here has been changed notably from stock, as is probably clear from a short look at the picture above. It’s been rebuilt by using Pepo at XTR Pepo, a former Ducati professional who made a worldwide call for himself as the pinnacle honcho at Radical Ducati – before leaving on a sabbatical and identifying to work with any motorbike that piqued his hobby, be it a Ducati, a Yamaha, a Triumph, or a BMW.

Whilst he commenced paintings at the trusty little Yamaha SR250, Pepo pulled it apart and fast determined to convert it to a monoshock rear to enhance managing. He took the original swingarm and added an upper detail to it to improve rigidity, then added a mounting point for a centrally placed shock absorber.

XTR YAMAHA SR250 TRACKER "Review Motorbike" 

XTR YAMAHA SR250 TRACKER "Review Motorbike"

XTR YAMAHA SR250 TRACKER "Review Motorbike"

The authentic gasoline tank was swapped out for an OSSA unit with Monza gas cap, a new Rizoma handlebar become introduced, with a couple of Gonelli grips. That seat is an in-residence unit made by way of XTR Pepo, as is the headlight, blinkers, tail light, and registration code holder.

The finished motorcycle is an tremendous example of a present day tracker, and its engine has been ported and polished, then tuned to fit its new exhaust and high-float clear out – giving it more than the factory-spec 20hp.

If you’d like to read extra approximately this construct or see a number of XTR Pepos different builds you may click here to go to the official website.

Images copyright Jose Cepas

Classic "TRITON" LOADED GUN CUSTOMS TRITON

This lovable Triton is the brand new from Loaded Gun Customs, the Delaware-based totally shop run by Kevin Dunworth. The tale starts offevolved with a phone name from Dunworth’s tattoo artist brother, pronouncing that the owner of the Baltimore Tattoo Museum desired a Triton constructed. The starting point was to be an engine built by means of Arno St Denis, a mythical name in antique Triumph circles.

Dunworth’s ears pricked up: St Denis changed into a machinist who labored at the engines of racer Hubert “Sonny” Routt. So he headed over to Baltimore to fulfill museum proprietor Chris Keaton, and take a look at the engine. It was pristine—“a true art piece,” says Dunworth. But the other components for the build were bent, broken or rusty. “My coronary heart sank,” recollects Dunworth. “however hi there, at least he had that engine. Then from a field, he pulled the tank! That turned into all I had to be re-energized.”

Dunworth chose the first-class of the bent frames, took it lower back to his Delaware workship, and put it on the jig. “I hooked up it, and were given the rear seat-remains heated and lower back in line. I then dropped the swing arm pivot one inch, and set the top tube at 25 ranges. That appears to be the magic quantity for vintage-size wheels for all-round performance.” Dunworth did his quality to get an 11- to 13-diploma swing arm angle as properly: “the whole thing with a vintage motorcycle is a compromise of educated guesses!”

On went a fixed of Atlas triple trees, and Commando fork legs, with a Commando hub laced to 19” anodized solar rims by Buchanan’s. A matching 18” at the rear is laced to a Triumph conical hub.

The engine went into the frame the use of Loaded Gun’s very own Triton conversion plates. (“we adore to tilt the engine just a piece more than a number of the others available on the market.” Mikuni carbs and fantastically flowed intake manifolds release the whole Arno St Denis magic, which incorporates a lightened crank and dynamic balancing. The motor is round 830cc, Dunworth estimates, has had a port task, and is going for walks 10:1 pistons and a modified valve teach.

“The number one gadget work and the belt force with polished take hold of plate display that this is something special,” says Dunworth, “as well as a 60s backside stop with the 10-bolt head conversion. I really like it as it the general public just glance and say ‘cool,’ however the old dudes get down on one knee and start shaking their heads. On the Barber display, one guy said, “Did Arno try this engine? You recognize, what you purchased there may be a real hot rod.”

The seat pan changed into hand-made through Dunworth and despatched to Florida for completing. “I wanted to give a nod to the Manx style, but get her tail up in the air bit, Euro style. The cro-mo bars are from Lossa Engineering, and a Buell grasp cylinder operates on Brembo brakes stolen from a wrecked Ducati 916. Hagon shocks fill out the back, the fabric-wrapped plug wires are from NYC Choppers, and footrests are looked after with Loaded Gun’s own rearsets. The grips are wonderful-sticky Ariete GPs.

The Triton is now Chris Keaton’s daily rider, used at the streets of Baltimore and the encompassing united states roads, so Dunworth left a great deal of the end ‘uncooked.’ “The motorcycle appeared antique and ridden as soon as we completed it.” And all of the better for it, we’d say.

Head over to the Loaded Gun website to look extra of Kevin Dunworth’s builds, and follow the progress of his builds on the Loaded Gun facebook page.

Big Harley Flathead Snowracer 1936 1946 Ehinger Kraftrad Faaker

Ehinger Kraftrad is a small German workshop based totally in Hamburg that builds fascinating vintage Harley-Davidsons. Run via Uwe Ehinger and Katrin Oeding, it’s known as
 ‘Kraftrad’ in preference to the usual ‘Motorrad’—because Motorrad generally method industrially produced items. Whereas Ehinger Kraftrad makes a speciality of very restricted scale, high quality manufacturing.

Uwe Ehinger’s background is in racing, and this stylish ‘Snow Racer’ is stimulated by means of 1930s race motorcycles. The coronary heart of this snow bike is a story in itself: it’s a 1946 U model engine outfitted with 1936 VLH cylinders, giving a capability of 80ci. The bottom end has been completely overhauled, with new bearings and delicate balancing. The heads are from a 1948 ULH, remodeled to enhance performance and offer better cooling.

Further mods consist of tweaked camshafts, a Dell’Orto carburetor, and an unrestricted 30s-fashion exhaust gadget. (“It serves more as a directional guide for exhaust fumes than a method for reducing noise,” Ehinger notes wryly.)

A modified Baker 6-velocity transmission become located within the rigid frame. And then Ehinger evolved a custom coupling for the number one force, with an identical take hold of basket. The brakes are also custom: the expert producer Behringer created one-off hubs for the Snow Racer’s 21” and 19” wheels, and inboard brakes have been mounted. Then Ehinger fitted a Harley VL fork—geared up with a custom triple tree—and in a second of inspiration, a modified Yamaha TY80 fuel tank.

The Snow Racer is a runner, and no longer a show bike. Ehinger Kraftrad’s other builds are simply as uncommon, but like this one, they’re eminently rideable too. Head over to the company’s very fashionable internet site to discover greater.

The Best Of Model Honda CB750 Classic

The original Classic Of Honda CB750 4 is one of the maximum sought-after motorcycles to customise. And it’s no longer difficult to look why: traditional 1970s style, peerless performance for its technology, and that mythical Honda engineering.

It additionally method it’s getting tougher to find a right, serviceable SOHC CB750 for reasonable cash. Something beneath $4,000 is likely to want remedial work, and a pristine 1969 instance with the ‘sandcast’ engine will set you returned three instances that.

With CB750 four values escalating, the stereotypical checkered-stripe-and-clip-ons CB custom is at the wane. The high-quality developers at the moment are putting extra concept into their CB750 builds, as befits the first manufacturing bike to crack the two hundred kph (124 mph) barrier. So check these 5 customs from the usa, Europe and Australia. Every one places a unique spin at the ‘world’s first superbike.’

WRENCHMONKEES GORILLA PUNCH 

If there’s one motorbike that put the Danish masters at the map, it’s ‘Gorilla Punch’ (above and top). Four years ago, this CB750 made the custom world sit up straight and note, and not just as it’s the first time whitewalls have regarded properly on a post-warfare motorbike. The engine gets a healthy electricity enhance from Keihin CR29 carbs and a immediately-via exhaust system, and the bodywork is all-new new. There are too many custom components to listing, from the triple trees up front to the extended swingarm out back, and a entire new brake device in among. ‘Gorilla Punch’ became placed on display at at Kunst Industri Museet, the Danish Museum of art & design, and today it lives in Dubai. With a bit of luck it’s being ridden because it become intended. [Wrenchmonkees]

STEVE ‘CARPY’ carpenter’S CYCLONE Carpy is the world’s pre-eminent CB750 expert, and a real character in addition. An expat Londoner living inside the america, he’s regarded for his jovial character as plenty as his bike builds. However there’s little this guy doesn’t know about constructing CB750s. ‘Cyclone’ is his excursion-de-pressure, a bike that has been stripped right down to its middle additives and painstakingly rebuilt with a nod to the traditional ‘Ace Café’ genre CB750 Café]

MOTOHANGAR 1976 CB750 Pat Jones knows a way to make a motorcycle appearance excellent, but this has got to be the most arresting of all Motohangar builds. The largest stroke of genius became becoming a Kawasaki KZ tail, right away giving the CB750 a rakish stance—accentuated via the edgy photos and monochrome paint and powder. It’s an unapologetically ‘new wave’ construct, complete with pod filters, pipewrap and Firestones, however we don’t care. With sufficient electricity on faucet to match the brutal seems, this bike has mindset by way of the bucketload. [More about this bike house ROCKERS This japanese workshop isn't always well-known within the West, but ought to be. It builds CB750s with a sturdy overall performance slant, starting with seriously warm-rodded engines. This one is sporting a cast crank, large valves, a Wiseco 836cc kit and Yoshimura-tweaked carbs. The suspension on has been upgraded too, with new Kayaba forks up front, Öhlins out back, and magnesium wheels. It'd look a touch high-ridin’—however that is a CB750 built for natural speed. [More about this bike extreme CREATIONS DICK MANN replica Dick Mann was one of the all-time AMA racing greats, and there are numerous CB750 replicas bearing his name. This, in our opinion, is one of the pleasant. It changed into built through the Australian keep excessive Creations, and promptly introduced to the Deus studio for a shoot earlier than it went on sale. As a change, it’s past reproach: the donor CB750 become a complete ruin, and the end result is jaw-losing. The frame become blasted lower back to naked metallic, the bodywork is hand-shaped, and beautiful details are anywhere you appearance—inclusive of a CNC-machined stator cowl with a sandcast end. Car earrings of the very best order, with performance to suit Extreme Creations] Deuscustoms.com