Written by Marlon Slack
The Swiss can be a very serious bunch of people. Pragmatic, practical and sometimes a little dry, they?re often considered the chartered accounts of the Europe. But people like the mad crew at VTR Customs prove that there?s an undercurrent of beautiful craziness running through the alps. Maybe it?s in the mountain water. But the end result of this rich vein of madness are bikes like this – a NOS powered BMW R1200R racer dubbed ?Veneno Blanco? – Spanish for ?White Poison?.

Like many of the greatest ideas devised by mankind, the Veneno Blanco was dreamed up over a few beers. The owner of a previous VTR Custom, a R1200 dubbed ?Goodwood?, had just run it in a 1/8th mile sprint cup. And he?d just had his ass handed to him, with the series placing no limitations on displacement, aspiration type or fuel which rendered the big BMW boxer rather uncompetitive. As a result he was knocked out fairly early on by an inline four, turbocharged Yamaha with a Stretch Armstrong swingarm. It was fun anyway, but the owner wanted to be more competitive.
So the owner had an idea – what if they went all out on the next R1200 build" VTR Custom?s chief instigator, Dani Weidmann, liked the sound of it. ?We started the outline of Veneno Blanco,? he explains, ?Lightweight with lots of carbon parts and with top of the line racing equipment?? as the night dragged on the whole thing started to come together on the back of a napkin. And the client was more ...