History
Purchased a tired, rough albeit running bike that already had all the original fairings stripped off, many of the original bits were either cut off or replaced with aftermarket making it a perfect donor bike to completely transform without the guilt of ruining a ‘good bike’.
The vision was to built something unique, stylish, sleek, minimalist, sympathetic to the period and along the lines to what BMW would have built.
The build in a nutshell started off with photos of the bike, creating and manipulating images in photoshop to come up with the design then got stuck into fabricating and re engineering as per the plan. Once the fundamental changes were made, every single component completely stripped down and rebuilt with no bolt left unturned. The whole process took approximately 3 years.
Modifications
* Conversion to modern upside down forks, upgrade front brakes to 4 piston calipers and 300mm disks.
* Custom made hub / disk adapters and hardware to retain original front wheel to work with modern front end.
* New rear subframe fabricated from scratch incorporating new rear suspension.
* Custom made rear cowl to integrate with the shape and lines of the original fuel tank.
* Seat, base, quick release mechanism all custom made with access to ‘glove box’ under rear hump.
* Deleted all original foot rests, mount points, controls, linkages, rear brake master cylinder, brackets, fabricated new to suit the sportier stance incorporating new foot controls, rear master cylinder and custom linkages.
* Front faring, screen, brackets, fenders custom made.
* Custom made rear lights, turned on lathe incorporating individual super bright LED’s.
* Rebuilt engine, new cylinders, pistons, rings, carbs.
* Rebuilt gearbox and rear drive.
* Electrically all new fully rewired and routed discreetly to MotoGadget M unit including rebuilt alternator, and starter motor.
* Painted in the Porsche 917 Le Man’s ‘Gulf’ colour scheme using accurate colour codes.
More Build details on Instagram @fiogall
Photos by Benjamin Azevedo
