Vagabund Moto have built some of the sharpest BMW airheads we’ve seen. They’ve developed a signature style too: custom boxers with stark, futuristic lines, and amazing attention to the tiniest of design details.
But the Austrian builders Paul Brauchart and Philipp Rabl don?t want to be pigeonholed into one style. They?ve decided to change it up, since they often find themselves working with very similar donor bikes.

?We try to not stand still in our designs,? says Paul. ?If you mostly do BMWs?which was never our intention?then you need to keep it interesting by trying new things.?
This latest boxer (‘V11’) is just as slick as their previous work, but with a slightly more classic bent. According to the brief, this 1991-model BMW R 100 R needed to have ?a more vintage touch, with brown leather, and a place for a first aid kit.? (Kits are a legal requirement in Austria, and the client lives in a region with strict policing.)
The most obvious change is the fuel tank. Vagabund ditched the bulky OEM unit, then fitted a heavily modified tank from the Ukrainian-made Dnepr MT.
They also built a new subframe out back, finishing it off with an aggressive kick. Up top is a custom-made brown leather saddle, with a leather bag from Brooks hiding underneath, to house that first aid kit.

Clearing out the space under the seat meant rewiring the old airhead. So Vagabund swapped the airbox for a pair of pod filters, filling in the space with a new cover to hou...