You've all probably seen or heard of this bike, the last air/oil-cooled boxer from BMW now that the Wasserboxer is taking over. It's a relatively light, sleek, and nimble little beast with 110 bhp from its DOHC hexhead motor. It reminds me of wheeling around my old Airheads due to its diminutive size and low-slung weight. In reality it's just under 490 lbs (221 kilos) dry. But it feels light. Peruse the interwebnet and you'll find all sorts of cool customs of this model from Japan, Europe and the Americas. Some of them are hideous.


Impostor by El Solitario


Highway Fighter by Cherry's Company of Japan


Concept Ninety by Roland Sands

They're quite customisable with removable subframe and passenger pegs, a rear seat cowl is available after removing the pillion seat section. There are various exhaust options, and the aftermarket have taken off with options as well. We had a look at the Rizoma catalogue and decided to make a version of our own. Some folk like the cruiser look and feel, others enjoy roadsters, some prefer café racers - the boss likes low 'bars and rear sets. This is ours.



We added a small flyscreen, carbon fibre front mudguard and front engine cover, clip-ons, bar end mirrors mounted in the stock mirror holes, a single Akrapovic can, ditched the subframe and pegs, added LED indicators, a tidied up taillight and number plate holder, and had the all-aluminium rear cowl painted to resemble the dark storm metallic/brushed aluminium colour scheme on the petrol tank. Once we'd all thrown a leg over we knew straight away that rearsets were required. They're on order.




I think it'll make a nice little road burner.

Two Wheels Better wrote:Some of them are hideous.


Impostor by El Solitario

Now that's just taking crash bars a little tooo far!

BMW RNineT by Toy's Garage



RNineT by UCC



RNineT by Nakajima



RNineT by Takamine



RNineT by Togashi

I actually just spotted this on the BMW site last night. It looks great, but $21,000 is a bit out of my price range. Oh well, I won't buy another bike until the K75s dies, so that'll give 'em plenty of time to get old. Actually, I'll probably buy a few more bikes, but usually old dirt bikes to do up, though I've been looking at a few 50s models lately.

Doesn't anybody do mudguards any more? 

Paul.

(Oh, of course you're not supposed to ride them.........)

When you only ride them on fine days down to a handy cafe then there is apparently no need for such a ridiculous thing.
Just run along the road with clipond in each hand going vroom vroom couldn't look any sillier.

We are building a custom R-nine-T in our shop. Custom aluminum seat and tank..... I'll post some pics when the body work is finished.

cool  ....this could be interesting ...
good luck