In the lore of motorcycle racing, Battle of The Twins has few equals. First staged in the US at Daytona in 1981, the 50-mile series has spawned many epic duels?and spurred the development of the legendary Britten V1000.
The ripples from those thunderous early races are still felt today, as evidenced by this incredible BMW racer that just washed up into our inbox.

It comes from classic race bike aficionado Scott Kolb, who?s based an hour and a half north of New York City.
Scott had a theory: ?An air cooled BMW engine in a sweet chassis, with the right rider, just might beat up on modern sportbikes at local track days.? He set out to build a 310-pound [140 kg], 82 horsepower track bike.

Influenced by the writings of Tony Foale and the race bikes of Chris Hodgson, Scott decided to build a homage to the great Daytona BoTT racers. So he pulled the engine from his 1976 R90/6 road bike and put the rest of the machine on eBay to help pay for parts. Fortunately, he had a client with the same vision. And like Scott, the client works in the high-end architectural field, and he is a hands-off kinda guy.

?We?ve both seen enough clients ruin great design by diluting the original vision,? says Scott. ?The best projects come from a consistent and pure design idea.?
?To that end, he offered no commentary?not even about color. But he did say ?The bike needs to fit me,’ and left it at that. He?s 6′ 4″ and 240 pounds, [109 kg] so I made a bike to measure.?

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