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“STR10” by VTR Customs…

Again in 2009, BMW shocked the motorcycling world with the introduction of the S1000RR, their first enterprise into fashionable superbike territory. The DOHC 16-valve inline-cylinder literbike was a winner from the get-go, and the corporate quickly transplanted the potent engine into different machines.

Somebody in Munich will need to have requested the fateful query: What if we mashed collectively our RR superbike and GS journey bike right into a single “sport adventurer”? The consequence could be the S1000XR.

“An enviable mixture of feisty S1000RR and fashionable R1200GS/R1250GS, it’s no surprise the top result’s sensible.” –Motor Cycle Information

The 999cc RR powerplant was retuned for stronger midrange, packing 160 horsepower in XR trim, and the twin-beam aluminum perimeter body was given higher geometry for backroad bombing on bumpy surfaces.

Enter former professional supermoto racer Dani Weidmann and the group at Switzerland’s VTR Customs, one of many world’s best-known customizers of BMW machines. When the Schmerikon-based group realized they’d solely constructed one four-cylinder BMW through the years — their “Silver Bullet” S1000R — they determined it was time to construct not one however two high-powered four-cylinder BMW customs.

This 2017 S1000XR could be first on the chopping block, and so they give us the total beat-by-beat construct course of beneath. Highlights embody a modified pre-production RR tail with {custom} seat, 17-inch Kineo spoke wheels, SC Venture exhaust, tons of carbon components, Nardo Gray paint, and a one-off entrance quantity plate with hidden lighting…and way more!

Nicknamed the “STR10” for Supermoto Tracker 1000cc, this beast got here out wanting like a unadorned racebike able to assault the closest racing circuit…nevertheless it’s truly street-legal, and retains the identical suspension and geometry that makes the XR such a beast on actual roads. VTR Customs is well-known for enjoyable and irreverent little particulars to their builds, and so it’s solely becoming that the pilot’s title is “FOO KIN FAST” — a reference to an area “Subaru freak” — and also you’ll discover a number of different “easter eggs” in case you look carefully on the pictures beneath.

At present the bike is fortunately within the secure of one of many workshop’s prime purchasers, and there’ll by no means be one other one prefer it.

“Not one of the components are in the stores or as a package. They’re all handmade to measure. One in all our consumer guarantees is we’re constructing single and distinctive bikes and no copies will ever be reproduced by us.”

Beneath, the VTR Customs group provides us the total blow-by-blow breakdown of the STR10. And keep tuned for the bike’s sibling — the SSR10 — coming quickly!

BMW “STR10” Supermoto Tracker: Within the Builder’s Phrases…

Idea and Title
After constructing so many NineT’s, R1200 R, and 2-valve Boxers, we realized we’ve constructed just one 4-cylinder BMW thus far, the S1000R “Silver Bullet”. Possibly that’s as a result of Silver Bullet was the bike that broke Dani’s collarbone (the titanium plate acts as a talisman on Dani’s POLIZIA 1.9). So it was time for some 4-cylinder customizing in Schmerikon…

Seeking to the 4-cylinder shelf, after S1000R there’s the XR1000 and RR1000 left. The choice was made to construct two “sister” bikes, and the S1000 XR was the primary on the desk. Dani had seen a brilliant cool XR racer on a monitor within the US and remembered pondering: “Wow! That’s a really cool wanting XR.”

The following thought was a racy Supermoto type, and Dani has no less than a thousand photos in his head from his Supermoto profession within the Swiss Championship. If you already know Dani, none of his race bikes was inventory — all had been personalized and had particular designs and appears beside modified engines, forks, shocks, and so forth.

Hmmmm… the thought was to construct a road tracker/fighter however not with the BMW bike one would consider (S1000 R) however with the XR for the Supermoto twist. Naming? STR for Supermoto Tracker, 10 as a result of 1000ccm, however 1000 is just too lengthy for a race quantity. So let’s go along with 10: “STR10” was born.

Design
As traditional, we began stripping every thing down with the intention to begin up our brains to search out the precise strains. The primary thought was to maintain the important thing a part of the XR entrance fairing, however reduce it very small and “race type,” giving it a extra aggressive entrance view with completely different headlights.

The following choice was to construct a brilliant racy tail part, solo seated, brief, and excessive, however matching the fashionable shapes of an XR. Round that point, the model new S1000 RR 2019 was proven for the primary time in Milan. Yessss — these headlights — and double-yessssssss, that brief tail from the RR is tremendous attractive. Hmmmmmmm…

Construct
As a widely known BMW customizer (Spitfire, and so forth.), we all know fairly a number of individuals in Munich. So let’s name the Munich guys to ask in the event that they someplace, someway, maybeee, with a little bit goodwill, would discover a prototype tail part of the brand new RR, and maybeeeeeeeeeeeee these headlights too???

Some calls and emails later, and with the promise to share whisky and a cigar on the subsequent {custom} occasion, we bought the answer 😉 The tail goes to look very RR 2019 like, however after all custom-fitted with add-ons from VTR. New seat, handmade alloy covers, the smallest 3-in-1 taillights, and so forth.

Additionally the Kineo spoke wheels had been clear proper from the start, however this time alloy-polished as an alternative of black, and with a particular nipple setup (all black, simply left and proper from tire valve blue and crimson) — we’re Swiss and we like issues sophisticated… 😉 Exhaust is an extremely brief SC mission. Then tons of HP carbon components and HP foot pegs, and so forth.

On the entrance finish, issues began to be a bit extra difficult. We reduce and reduce… The fairing turned smaller and smaller, the windshield reduce down nearly to nothing. The RR 2019 headlight simply didn’t wish to match within the fairing, even when we’d constructed an alloy cowl by hand.

Dani nonetheless needed the XR to be seen and RRracy-looking… However it simply didn’t look good or VTR type. After the seventh or eighth try, Stefano had THE thought: Let’s construct it Supermoto, Superbike type and take all of the fairings away and construct a giant quantity plate on the entrance as an alternative!

Yep that was it — however we didn’t need the identical as on the Shitane and ST33 NineT’s (headlights built-in into the quantity plate). So we determined to “disguise” them beneath the quantity plate. Mixed with the tail mild resolution, you see nearly no lights, that means that is racing solely… Nonetheless, Swiss road authorized!

Coloration scheme? Straightforward! Dani had simply bought his new BMW Collection 5 touring with particular order paint in “Nardo Gray” — a stunner and ideal match to the carbon components. So the sibling bikes each bought the identical Nardo gray.

Some jokes on the bike? Welcome to VTR… Impressed by rally automobiles and a Subaru freak within the Schmerikon space, the pilot’s title turned a FOO KIN FAST sticker.

And there’s the same old VTR sh*t like “Turtle-Rabbit” indicators on the throttle, and so forth.

The bike was offered the second day of the Swiss Moto Present in February. STR10 has a brand new dwelling alongside another VTR Customs at a widely known consumer’s storage. So she and we really feel joyful 😉

And…simply to be clear and to keep away from a number of e-mail requests…not one of the components are in the stores or as a package. They’re all handmade to measure. One in all our consumer guarantees is we’re constructing single and distinctive bikes and no copies will ever be reproduced by us.