Little Blue Bastard - BMW R80RT Cafe Racer
Timotei, an Englishman from Evesham in Worcestershire, is no stranger to motorcycles. "I got my first motorbike when I was 6 years old, a TY50 trials and it was rad. My brother had just been bought a big wheel CR80 and had started motocross the year before and I thought it was the coolest thing. Dad was a mechanic and kept me and my brother into bikes, doing motocross until my brother went off to uni and we couldn't afford to keep it going.
Years later I managed to scrape together enough to buy my first road bike, get my licence sorted and I was away. After an assortment of track bikes and road bikes I ended up with a bobbed 86? Harley Sportster. I?d seen some of the street scramblers and cafe racers that were being turned out by people like Cafe Racer Dreams and Down and Out and in my eyes, the BMW?s were the only bike worth doing this kinda build with?
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