ICH BIN EIN BOXER. Moto Studio?s ?Das Moto? BMW R100RS Cafe Tracker
Written by Andrew Jones
While motorcycle riders tend to prefer one brand of bike over another, it’s much trickier for custom builders to do the same. If you’re trying to put food on the table, limiting your builds to just one manufacturer will automatically rule out many potential customers who might love what you on, but maybe not the bike you do it to. So, after many years of doing mostly Moto Guzzi builds, America?s Bruce McQuiston has swapped his pasta for pork knuckle and taken a little trip to Munich. Here’s his ?Das Moto? BMW R100RS that’s eine kleine cafe unt eine kleine tracker.
Our chat starts with Moto Studio’s Bruce in a decidedly ?biz dev? kind of mood. ?While we continue to build bikes that are unique,? he says in opening, ?Our shop is evolving in terms of production techniques and design. While cafe bikes are our true passion, clients requests have had us considering bikes with more versatile riding positions: mainly scramblers, trackers and even some supermotos.?
Enter stage left a BMW with a decidedly big future ahead of it. ?The build, which we call ?Das Moto?, started life as an ?81 BMW R100RS. The objective of the build was to provide a practical platform for two-up operation, yet stay within the ?design vocabulary? of the previous Moto Studio builds in terms of engineering and aesthetics. The build process also sought to improve on the original bike?s performance wherever possible.?
Under the bridge, downtown…
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