All About The Patina: Nico Mueller's BMW R75/5

We love seeing custom builders' personal rides. Most of these guys spend their days wrestling with the restrictions of commissioned work, so it’s intriguing to see their choices and decision-making when the brief is wide open. This BMW R75/5 belongs to Nico Mueller of Hookie Co. in Germany. It’s a mix of clever upgrades, discreet engineering and delicious patina—but not too fancy to be ridden through the snow of a Dresden winter, with average temperatures hovering around zero (32 °F). An old boxer seems like an obvious starting point, given the model’s current popularity, but Nico tells us that it...