BMW ‘La Parisienne’
The donor bike here is a BMW R100 RT01 from 1984. We were commissioned by the French Insurance Company La Parisienne. We wanted to go for something brutal, radical and never seen before with a BMW basis.
We hope we reached this goal.
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- 100% handmade subframe welded to the genuine frame;
- mat dark grey powder coating of the frame + fork;
- shiny black powder coating of all the engine covers + wheels.
- 100% reconditioned Bing carburators;
- bespoke aluminum air filters;
- K&N engine breather.
- R100 RS handlebar (shiny black powder coated);
- Yamaha R1 front brake master cylinder + clutch lever;
- Yellow glass vintage rally car additional light used as the headlight.
The tank comes from a Yamaha 500XT.
As usual, mounted as found.
100% bespoke seat.
- simplified electric wiring;
- stainless stell Blitz Motorcycles mini switches to control horn + blinkers.
- Coker Diamond tires. Both front and rear;
- bespoke battery box screwed under the gearbox;
- Ion Lithium 36 Ah battery
- we could not help it: we used the thermal wrap;
- and also short mufflers painted in high temperature matt black (with red inside).
