Street Style: A custom BMW G310R from Buenos Aires
To describe Argentina?s capital city of Buenos Aires as busy is an understatement. The 78-square-mile city has a population of over three million people, with over 15 million occupying the greater metro. As you might expect, motorcycles can be a fun way to get around such populous areas?especially smaller-displacement, highly agile bikes that can slice through crowded city streets.
That’s exactly what we’re looking at today; a custom BMW G310R street tracker made to commute on, from the team at STG Tracker in Buenos Aires.
Manufactured by TVS in India for BMW, the G310R is the smallest bike in the German marque’s arsenal. Its single-cylinder mill puts out 33.6 hp and 28 Nm?plenty for inner city jaunts. The stock bike borrows its styling from BMW’s bigger naked bikes, but this one’s been radically transformed by STG. Although the donor bike only had 500 km [310 miles] on the clock, it wasn’t a completely blank canvas. Another workshop had started work on it already, but the client had paused the project and brought it to STG instead.
The previous crew had made the custom carbon fiber tank cover and tail section. But while the client was happy with the general design, nothing was fitting as it should. Shop boss Marcelo Obarrio kicked things off by building a new fuel tank to sit under the cover, then fabricating new mounting tabs on the frame to mount everything.
The standard BMW bodywork is angular and sporty?but the custom cover sof...
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