Clean Maschine: Urban Motor's rakish R80

Every year, 120,000 motorcycles roll off the production line in BMW's giant Berlin factory. But some of the most interesting Beemers come from a tiny workshop just 15 kilometers to the east, on the banks of the River Spree. That's where you'll find Urban Motor's Peter Dannenberg, a man who tweaks the lines and details of BMWs and turns them into something extra speziell. His latest bike is this incredibly honed '87 BMW R80 monolever, appropriately dubbed 'Clean Beem(er)'. It was built for a fellow Berliner Johannes—an architect who commissioned it as a 40th birthday present to himself. “Johannes wanted...