"The Knight Stalker"

1977 R100S BMW Cafe Racer by Gold Country Cafe Racers

Friday, 23 June 2017 by GCCR

1977 R100S BMW Cafe Racer by Gold Country Cafe Racers Here’s the tear-down and build of my latest project, Der Knight Stalker. – I decided to build another cafe bike after I had recently completed an R100/7 into a featured, front cover bike for the BMW RA magazine, OTL. The teardown process begins on

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Start Date: January 11, 2016
Model: BMW R100S
Year: 1977

Name: Dan Rodarte

Bio: I'm a long time BMW fan, both bikes and cars. I started riding BMW Airheads in San Francisco, my hometown in the early '80's, it was a great time to live there with my trusty '81 R65. However I was never happy with anything stock, be it a bicycle as a youth or when I bought my first new 5 Series in '04, I always had to customize anything and everything. In 1985 I built my first Cafe Racer out of that same R65. I wish I could find it today, I'd buy it on the spot. I traded it in for a brand new 1988 Red K75S when they came out. However it didn't do the same for me as an Airhead does. With moves to Hawaii then to New York, there were many years where I went without a bike. A few years ago I caught an episode of Cafe Racer TV on the Velocity network– I was hooked again. I went out and searched for a worthy candidate for a ground up custom cafe bike. That bike, a 1977 BMW R100/7 aka "Mango Tango" ended up on the front cover of the July/August 2015 issue of OTL Magzine last year. This latest build will surpass that. I'm calling it, The Knight Stalker.Dan Rodarte

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"The Knight Stalker"

1977 R100S BMW Cafe Racer by Gold Country Cafe Racers