when it comes to customizing a motorcycle,
even less so for a retro boardtracker,
but the guys at Rusty Factory gave it a go, and did they hit a winner!
the donor 75/6 bike a 1975 model, came to the garage it was
running well and ready to ride, but Rusty Factory only wanted the engine, so
they removed the power plant and pulled it apart for polishing,hours and hours
of polishing, ‘We expected we’d have some problems putting it all back,” says
head of Rusty, Muhammad Khalid Musa, “but we didn’t have any issues
reassembling it”
with the engine setup complete the real work started for
Muhammad, He decided early on that he’d run a 21″ front and a stock 19″ rear
rim and hub with a 4″ Shinko tire, to round out the stance of the build, the
Rusty Factory team built a frame from scratch, to match the frame, the team also made a springer front fork,
and they had something particularly novel in mind – a
shaft drive brake system, in case you do not know BMW motorcycles are shaft driven, no messy chains or stretchy belt drives!
then came the controls, to maintain the low slung riding
positive the handlebars were combined into the top triple trees of the fork, the cables were hidden inside the bars and the and no grips were used to
emphasize the clean, reflective look,
at the Art of Speed show in Malaysia the team from Rusty Factory successfully defended their ‘best in show’ title with ease,
it was crowned ‘Bike Build-off Champion, it cleaned up the Public Choice Award
and won five other guest pick awards,
would I like it?of course! you can follow the team on Instagram, photography by Amin Hamid.
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