RELATIONSHIP BUILDING. MB Cycles? BMW Brat Racer
Written by Andrew Jones
Think your relationship is pretty good" Chances are, you’ve got nothing on Heidelberg?s Martin and Melissa from MB Cycles. He builds rad bikes and she photographs them. He gives her a rad bike and she rides it. She likes it so much, she sends it to us to see what we think. And hey presto, Martin’s better half just got him a Pipeburn feature. Here’s their latest metallic offspring ? a bouncing baby brat ?87 BMW R80 with more than a few nice surprises.
As a wunderkind, Martin thought it would be a good idea to steal his Mum’s bike and customise it by lengthening the front forks. At 13 he got his first moped. It was a gift and since he didn?t have the cash for petrol, he made it run with turpentine and whatever else he could find in the family garage. At 18 and with a new moto licence in his pocket, he dropped a bunch of cash on a fully customed Yamaha XT. But in his 20s he somehow drifted away from two wheels and left his hometown of Miltenberg to move to Heidelberg. Living ?hippie rough? in an old bus, he worked at the Christmas markets every year for a couple of weeks to earn enough money for trips to Burma, Nepal, Thailand and India. During his travels in India, he constantly bumped into all sorts of cool customised Royal Enfields and became a little nostalgic for his two-wheeled teens.
Then on his last trip to India (or more specifically, Rajasthan) he bought two Royal Enfields, rebuilt them with the help of some lo...
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