Spirit of Zeller: a BMW R nineT homage

Thanks to BMW Motorrad's aggressive (and slightly genius) marketing strategy, custom R nineTs were popping up before the bike had even hit showroom floors. And now that the furor has died down, local distributors are having a go too. BMW Italy recently invited dealers to participate in an R nineT build-off and one dealer turned to Officine Sbrannetti to build their entry. This is it, and as far as we're concerned, it's a shoo-in. Officine Sbrannetti is a fairly young operation, run by five friends out of an old house in La Spezia. They started up two years ago—spending the...