BMW’s been pushing its R18 pretty hard the past couple of years, so you might have forgotten about the R nineT. Not Wayne Buys, owner/operator at FabMan Customs in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. While BMW hands out R18s to custom builders worldwide, spreading bike build material around like a politician spreads campaign promises, Buys instead reached for the R nineT for this unique creation, with all-aluminum bodywork.

What’s underneath the skin?

基本机器是一款R Ninet，自2014年以来一直在宝马阵容中。当它被引入时，它是宝马有史以来首次进入复古市场。宝马以前制作了一些型号，足以使它们从新的寿命中从新手到老式（另请参见：R100系列）。但是，这是该公司的第一次尝试，有意识地建造看起来老式的东西。有点。

在现实中,R nineT是更多的a standard roadster than anything. The air/oil-cooled 1170cc flat twin making about 110 rear-wheel horsepower at 7,610 rpm and 74.3 pound-feet of torque at 6,090 rpm; not a monster, by any means, but roughly in the space that the Ducati Monster traditionally held. But unlike the Duc, which sold on its off-the-shelf styling, the R nineT was instead marketed as a customizer’s bike, something you’d buy to tweak to your own liking. There was a wide catalog of bolt-on bits, and later BMW also sold scrambler, cafe racer and even vintage desert bike versions of the machine, in case you couldn’t be fussed to do the work yourself.

像the R18 later, many custom shops did take to the R nineT, as you can see in the images here.

法布曼做了什么工作？

很明显，很多铝制的车身，而且身体是长期学徒制的结果。Buys说他一直在修改自己拥有的自行车，但在他受到Kaichiroh Kurosu的机器的启发后，他想将事情提升到一个新的水平。他没有设备或技能，甚至没有捐赠者自行车来完成他想要的事情，但是他仍然想为宝马R1200s敲打新的车身。

Buys说：“没有使用英式轮子，我唯一的选择是将铝锤在树干上并手工扎根。”“反复试验是一天中的顺序，因为我着手揭开这种黑色金属塑造艺术。确实，陡峭的学习曲线，每个错误的面板都学到了一个新的教训。”

听起来确实是艰苦的工作。当您看到最终结果时here，令人印象深刻的是，当您考虑该项目的启动方式以及他使用了什么工具时。即使自行车的造型并没有引起您的幻想，毫无疑问，我们大多数人都可以永远撞上树干，永远不会取得这些结果。

从那里学到的教训中，人们的声誉增长了，他已经全职从事定制工作已有十年了。他建造了自己的英语轮子，并制造了自己的一些自行车，并花了更多时间修改挡泥板，汽油箱和其他零件来为其他人的项目。他特别忙于为汽车和自行车的不锈钢排气装置。

And, he does everything old-school:

I do not use CAD or do any hand drawings; I just form ideas in my head of what I want to incorporate. For me the journey of the build is equally as rewarding as the final product. Though the hand cannot match the intricacies produced by a CNC machine, given free rein, I will always chose to jump on a band saw or milling machine to rough out parts and dress up with a file and grinder. I strive to justify the word BUILD, by hand making as many parts myself as the budget would allow.

On the bike seen here, the bodywork grabs your attention immediately—a customer came with a donor R nineT and wanted an aircraft-inspired machine, which is where the vintage aviation look comes from. But Buys says it’s what’s under the alu fairings that really took the hard work. Here’s a list of all the changes, which might sound smallish on their own, but together, they added up to eight months’ work:

液压主缸安装在水箱下方，通过反向杆通过电缆控制。离合器，制动，油门电缆和接线都隐藏在酒吧中。车把本质上像是一组扩展的剪辑。它们是用铝制成的，在叉子周围夹紧，就在底部三重夹具上方。它们是空心的，以便运行油门，断路电缆和布线。后制动主缸进行了修改以在整流罩的内部运行。光修改以缩小冲击螺栓的横杆。卸下脚休息选项卡，并附着新的脚架，以进行更后方的定位。
A separate aluminium gas tank was fabricated. The top shell drops over the gas cap, and is held in place with a lock nut before the gas cap goes on. Under the seat it has a bolt securing it to the gas tank. The foot pegs pinch the belly pan and then there are two visible screws that secure the top right next to the throttle bodies. There are four bolts securing the belly pan from below. There are two hidden screws under the front cover. All the different panels interlock. To achieve the bottom silhouette, the exhaust is contained in front of the engine, exiting on the bottom on either side.

为了发动机冷却目的，热空气通过底部的多个孔和后轮前面的一个孔排气。油箱顶部也有通风孔，以防止热空气在整流罩内部汇总，这加起来是插座与入口区域的两倍。机油冷却器被移至左脚钉的后部，封闭在入口勺中。添加5英寸风扇并进行管子以排出底部以帮助冷却。所有电气组件均遍布并通过管风扇从大灯周围供应冷空气，保持正压并防止热空气进入。

The motor and suspension are standard R nineT equipment, and Buys hard to source out the paintwork, as he couldn’t get the perfect finish he wanted. Looks like it worked out for him in the end, as the bike has been profiled in several custom mags and other bike publications over the past few weeks!

不幸的是，首先委托建造的客户无法完成交易，因此现在购买的自行车已出售。如果您有兴趣，他说价格标签为30,000美元；我们认为这是美元，但是您可以通过+27 82 386 8084或[email protected]如果您有现金，并且想谈论土耳其。

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