Bmw Airhead Adventure Bike

Daric Cheshire could build you one of these vintage adventure bikes, but he warns it would cost about as much as a new BMW R 1200 GS. Photo by Mark Gardiner. So, for the price of one of Daric's airhead adventure bikes, you could ride a new R 1250 GS.

But if you bought the new one, you'd look like everyone else. The Restoration, Repair, and Fabrication of Classic BMW R and K Motorcycles from 1970. One fall day in Brooklyn we pulled together a collection of air-cooled BMW's to celebrate these bikes in all their factory-correct originality.

From the outlier models like the R65LS, to the iconic G/S early adventure bikes, to primordial sport-touring machines like the R90S, we had an array of original. Matias seems devoted to building the world's most functional and gorgeous, albeit expensive, airhead adventure bikes, motorcycles he feels are perfect for long-distance global travel, thanks to their inherent simplicity and ease of repair. The R80 G/S is the ADV bike that ignited BMW's run in the segment, often being referred to as the first "adventure motorcycle." Originally introduced in 1980, the R80 was powered by a 797.5cc BMW type 247 engine-which is an air-cooled, flat-twin boxer engine, also known as an "airhead.".

Myth Motor draws from more than 40,000 miles of experience in long-distance adventure travel that took us through the length of both the American and African continents. We are dedicated to building the ultimate Airhead adventure motorcycles, machines that will stand the test of time through any terrain. BMW was faced with a problem.

At one time if you wanted a very long legged touring bike, very reliable and a dram to work on the airhead was it. But then others started catching up and BMW was losing market share. And the regulatory environment was getting tougher.

So they came out with the K bike. You own a partial descendant of one of those. They also came out with the monoshock models after.

The BMW R80G/S, which helped spawn the adventure bike class and dominated several early years of the Paris-Dakar Rally, owed much to the "Red Devil" of BMW engineer Laszlo []. The BMW Airheads Facebook page was born, and that took a little time to get going. "About 18 months ago I was riding around with a group of guys on airhead motorcycles," John remembered, "and we were communicating by e-mail.

That's just so clunky. Matias Corea has crossed continents before. So he's used his experience to build the ultimate adventure airhead, based on a 1983 BMW R80ST.