Euro Fighter: Avon Tyres' wild BMW F800S

If you were a tire company, what bike would you select to show off some new dual-sport rubber? The obvious answer would be a BMW R1200GS. But the venerable British company Avon (est. 1904) has plumped for something very different—a custom BMW F800S with a radical front suspension system. The 'TrailRider X-Over' is the work of two Frenchmen: Charles-Henrick Gaurier, who works for Avon France, and Thierry Marie, a specialist alloy fabricator. Together, they've built a machine that's almost impossible to pigeonhole. We'd say it's a café racer with bobber genes and a scrambler-esque stance. It's certainly an engineering masterpiece,...