THE X PISTOL. Gasoline Culture?s ?XT Punk? BMW Sprintracer
Written by Andrew Jones
Interested in building yourself a sprint racer" If your brain works anything like Germany‘s Jo Hecht, then here’s a handy set of instructions for you to follow. Take one 1978 BMW R100R RS. Add an aircraft’s propeller spinner, a Yamaha XT500 tank, a Porsche RS spoiler, a Harley fender, a bunch of handmade aluminium parts and then mix it all together with equal parts deft technical know-how and snarling Sid Vicious attitude. Then bake it in the heat of an eighth mile sprint race and hey presto! Here’s one he prepared earlier.
Based in the south of Germany, Jo was born in 1970Â and went on to study a Masters of Industrial Design in Milan before taking over the family?s interior design business with brother Frank. ?Then in 2016, I created ?Gasoline Culture? as an online retail idea to sell stickers, hats, t-shirts and the like. Embarrassingly, it’s still not online.? And with customs like this, we wonder if his time is better spent on bikes than bytes. ?Since I was a small child, I was always into racing. Cars, motorbikes; pretty much anything with a cool design. So for the last few years, I’ve been building myself different custom bikes.?
After a chance encounter with Mr Seb ?Sultans of Sprint? Lorentz in Biarritz 4 years ago, he was immediately impressed by the performance of Seb?s old BMW-powered ?Sprintbeemer?. So not wanting to reinvent the rad, he decided to use the very same litre engine as the base for...
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