![]() ![]() It’s unusual to have a custom bike this stylish and easy to ride. It runs like a modern bike and you have very good protection and riding position. Maxime bought this bike to have a stylish ride he could travel on. Can you tell us what it’s like to ride?.GS Gaston Rahier Replica, or GS Marlboro Playboy □ Our friend Marc Kustom Color did the crazy paint. We transformed the dashboard, installed a crashbar with the new PIAA lighthouse, new indicators, new R nine T front mudgard, new tyres, and more. We modified the rear part with the seat, the rear mudguard, and the luggage rack. Because we like to collaborate with others, we contacted Blackpines to make a deal with PIAA, and build the front mask.īlackpines built the whole structure to support the PIAA lighthouse and the Ducati Desert X windshield. I love the off-road vintage racing bikes. I’ve had the design idea for a long time. What was the design concept and what influenced the build?.He sold his bike and bought an 1150 with only 5000 km to make a custom bike. When we were in Biarritz for Wheels and Waves last year, we saw a vintage Paris Dakar BMW GS. My Royal Enfield district manager, Maxime, a vintage motorcycle fan, had an 1100 GS. What’s the make, model, and year of the donor bike?.It’s a very, very good bike to do that…It’s unusual to have a custom bike this stylish and easy to ride.”īelow, we talk to Orion for the details on the build, with more photos courtesy of Playboy / Marlboro BMW GSA: Builder Interview “Maxime bought this bike to have a stylish ride he could travel on. ![]() Maxime now has one beast of a BMW adventure bike that harks back to the 80s glory of the Paris Dakar Rally: Meanwhile, Marc Kustom Color handled the retro-inspired livery…twice, actually, as the original tank was lost in the mail!ĭespite the challenges, all the work was worth it. These were matched with a Ducati Desert X windshield, new dashboard, crashbars with PIAA foglights, new mudguards and luggage rack, and much more. He enlisted his friends at Blackpines to create a front light support and work with PIAA France to supply the rally lights. Orion already had the vision for a modern(-ish) version of Gaston Rahier’s Marlboro / Playboy machine. “He sold his bike and bought an 1150 with only 5000 km to make a custom bike.” The vintage rally bike had a big impact on both of them, and Maxime took immediate action: That makes Gaston’s 1985 victory one of the most impressive in Paris Dakar history, and his BMW’s Marlboro / Playboy livery stands as one of the most iconic of all time.įast forward to Wheels and Waves 2022, where Orion Porta of Ormotors and his Royal Enfield district manager, Maxime ( got to see an authentic Paris Dakar BMW GS in the metal. “BMW and the HPN team that built the bike didn’t have a spare chassis, so they had to cobble the wrecked one back together as best they could…it would leave two tire tracks in the sand instead of one.” – Jalopnikĭespite the skewed frame, Rahier not only finished the world’s most grueling off-road race, but won for the second year in a row. Rahier had won the ’84 Dakar in a long battle with another rally legend, Hubert Auriol, but his 1985 race effort started off quite inauspiciously when he managed to wreck his bike during a pre-race media appearance. It was, and still is, impossibly cool.” – El Solitario He’d step aboard with one foot, then casually arc the other over the seat and ride away. Rahier was so tiny that he mounted his rally prepped BMW R80G/S by walking alongside it, and then dropping the clutch. “When friends and new motorcyclists complain about stratospheric seat height, I gently point them to the incredible story of Gaston Rahier’s 1985 Dakar win. In 1985, Belgian rider Gaston Rahier campaigned the Paris Dakar Rally on a massive factory-built BMW R80GS sponsored by Marlboro and Playboy - a bike that seemed the size of a Clydesdale beside the 5’4″ Rahier. From Ormotors: A Modern Tribute to Gaston Rahier’s Dakar-winning BMW…
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