Written by Martin Hodgson
It’s been a Long Way Round, a Long Way Down and won the gruelling Paris-Dakar Rally; the BMW GS just might be the world’s most versatile go-anywhere moto machine. So it makes perfect sense that if you’re an Enduro riding instructor it’s the sort of machine that’s right up your alley, but wanting a custom classic example where do you turn" That question was answered with a simple call to David Widmann at Austria’s NCT Motorcycles. Tasked with taking a BMW R80GS and turning it into such a ride, the team pulled out all the stops, collaborated with the best in the business and have produced the ultimate weekend warrior for a man who likes to travel any road and off them too.
Regular readers of Pipeburn will be more than familiar with the litany of brilliant bikes coming out of NCT in just about every style you can imagine. But being tasked with coming up with a custom classic enduro machine that functions as well as its form was a new challenge they were all too willing to take on. Talking things over with the client, an experienced ride instructor, they agreed an ?80s GS was the perfect base and with his list of must haves written down, David and the team were ready to roll up their sleeves.

?We?ve started like with every other project by stripping the donor bike down. After that we?ve shorted the rare frame and powder coated it in black,? explains David. NCT believe in the full nut and bolt approach to a b...