DAKAR DREAMS: BMW R80G/S PARIS-DAKAR TRIBUTE

[weeksy]

https://www.bikebound.com/2021/10/21/bmw-r80gs/

[Count Steer]

Prefer the original (which it doesn't really look like, but it's quite nice. That Playboy logo is rather 1985 though ).

[DefTrap]

Yuk
Can't see the point, it's not pretty, it's a tool and therefore needs to look like it's slid down a sand dune, bounced off of numerous trees and been bodge repaired by a man in a hut in exchange for your shoes.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Not bad, Potter will shoot his wad over it

[Count Steer]

The real thing.

[G.P]

I like it. Love the trailies from that era - these always look better in the flesh too. I've got half an eye out for a luck strike Cagiva Elefant..

[demographic]

Yeah, I like that apart from the fag and jazzmag adverts.
They're a bit tacky.

[derek badger]

I like it, it's function over form. Which is nice.

[cheb]

The mismatched front wheel annoys me, that's why I made an ugly adaptor for the front disc. Getting a custom disc made is possible too, and worth it for the detail.



Those carbs also don't like non standard exhausts and are difficult to get rejetted.

The paint's better than mine.

[Skub]

*Shudders and leaves thread....

[wheelnut]

Not bad, Potter will shoot his wad over it

I like those sorts of bikes but BMWs are ugly in a way I could never get over.

I have a picture of one someone did over here a few years ago, I remember posting it on t'other place [goes off to look...].
Here we are, it was nice and horrid in equal measure, the tyres really killed it for me.

IME these bikes are horrible to ride in the desert unless you're going very fast and you don't fall off.

I like that

[Taipan]

I like it. Looks lighter than the original? Ifi was ever going to do something like a RTW trip, I'd rather do it on something like this than a modern version.