PONIES FROM HEAVEN. Rusty Factory?s Beautiful ?White Angel? BMW R75
Written by Marlon Slack
With some custom bikes, it?s easy to see where stock ends and the custom work starts. And there?s no begrudging this style of build – we love a bike that can masquerade as a factory motorcycle. But sometimes we like balls-to-the-wall insanity. Bikes that scream bespoke parts and hundreds of man hours. And there?s no better example than this, a blindingly good-looking 1975 BMW R75/6 produced by Malaysia?s Rusty Factory. An award-winning, retro-futuristic board tracker.
Rusty Factory seem to be going from strength to strength. Last year they built a Honda CX500 to participate in the bike show for Malaysia?s huge Art of Speed build off. And they cleaned up more than an ethnic mother in a student sharehouse. The clear win opened up an opportunity to build bigger bikes. So this year the organisers asked Rusty Factory to try their best to defend their title. We?ll talk about that later.
Unlike many classic bikes in Malaysia the donor 75/6 bike came to the garage it was running well and ready to ride. But Rusty Factory only wanted the engine. So they removed the power plant and pulled it apart for polishing. Hours and hours of polishing. ?We expected we?d have some problems putting it all back,? says head of Rusty, Muhammad Khalid Musa, ?but we didn?t have any issues reassembling it?.
With the engine setup complete the real work started for Muhammad. He decided early on that he?d run a 21″ front and a stock 19? rear rim and hub with a 4? Shi...
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