Sinroja Motorcycles have been producing sublime customs from their Leicestershire, England workshop for the past five years. This BMW R80 is their 17th build, and started life two years ago with a very simple brief.
?I want a classic BMW in true Sinroja style, with a good mixture of modern and vintage details,? said the client. For builder Birju Sinroja, this was the perfect commission?offering free reign, and scope to provide a high level of attention to detail.

We always have time for a top-drawer airhead custom, and this is up there with the best. The donor bike was a BMW R80 TIC, which means it was built to police specification. (?TIC? is reputed to mean ?Touring Integral Cockpit.?) Rahul Sinroja recalls it being ?a true barn find,? but the brothers were unfazed by the condition. The first step was to strip the whole bike, taking it back to bare metal by sand blasting the frame, and then cleaning up any unnecessary tabs and bracketry.

Then Sinroja fabricated and welded on a redesigned subframe, to create a clean line at the back. New footpegs were also fabricated, and positioned to suit the slightly revised ergonomics.
All classic customs that leave the Sinroja workshop get a full engine rebuild and this R80 was no exception. ?We stripped the almost 40-year-old powertrain all the way to the crank,? says Birju. ?We replaced the key components, like the big end bearings, chains, guides, pushrod tubes and so on, and rebuilt it to better-than-factory standards.?

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