Gold Medal: a Bultaco tribute from Café Racer Dreams - motorcycles

Gold Medal: a Bultaco tribute from Café Racer Dreams



How many custom shops have built over a hundred bikes" A tiny handful. But the BMW R80 RT we?re looking at here is build no. 128 for the Madrid outfit Café Racer Dreams.
CRD started in 2010 under the tutelage of Pedro Garci?a, but is now run by Jaime Colsa. They?ve been averaging a steady ten bikes a year, with a strong emphasis on classic BMW airhead customs. Every now and then they like to mix things up, and in this case, have built a very unusual tribute to the Bultaco Frontera 370 Gold Medal.

Most folks will know Bultaco for its trials, motocross and enduro bikes, which peaked in popularity in the 1960s and 1970s. Flat track racers may recall the popular ?Astro,? too.
But this R80 RT is a tributo to the lesser known ?Gold Medal??a version of the mid-70s Frontera enduro bike.
That explains why we couldn?t identify the tank on this quirky machine. ?The only change to the gas tank, with its original cap bearing the distinctive ?thumbs up? and even the rubber lid of the toolkit, is the BMW logo,? the CRD guys say.
The front fairing and the headlight are also from the Frontera, and painted to match the 1976 original.

BMW?s hefty tourer is an unlikely candidate for a go-anywhere machine, but the mods applied by head mechanic Marcos Castro have transformed it. CRD claims a 100-kilo weight loss, and losing the heavy bodywork must have contributed a big part to that.
The new front end will also help. CRD have grafted on a set of 43mm Showa USD forks, plus four-pi...
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