Concept Idea and Naming

After building so many NineT’s, R1200 R, 2 Valve Boxers, we figured out -we have builtonly one 4 Cyl. BMW so far (the S1000R called “Silver Bullet”). Maybe it was because Silver Bullet was the bike who broke Dani’s collarbone (the titanium plate acts as Talismanon Dani’s POLIZIA 1.9). So it was time for 4 Cyl. Customizing in Schmerikon...... Lookingto our 4 Cyl. Shelf, after S1000R there is XR1000 and RR1000 left. Decisionwas made to build two “sister” bikes. S1000XR was the first on the table. Dani has seen a super cool Race Track XR on a Track in the US and remembered his “wow”! that’s a vfery cool looking XR. The next idea was racy Supermoto style, which Dani has 1000 pictures in his brain from his Supermoto career in the Swiss Championship – if you know Dani – none of his race bikeswas stock, all have been customized and had all special designsand look’s beside modified Engines forks, Shocks, etc. The idea was to build a street tracker/fighter but not with the BMW bike one would think of (S1000 R) but with the XR for the Supermoto twist. Naming? STR for Supermoto Tracker, 10 because 1000 cc, but 1000 is a far too long Race No. – so let’s go 10 – STR 10 was born.

Design

As usual, we started to strip everything down in order to start up our brains to find the right lines. First idea was to keep the key part of the XR front fairing, butcut it very small and “race style”, giving it a more aggressive front view with other headlights. Next decision was to build a super racy tail section, solo seated, short, high up but matching the modern shapes of an XR. Aroundat that time, the brand new S1000 RR 2019 was shown the first time in Milan. Yessss-these headlightsand double-yessssssss, that short tail from RR is super sexy.

Build

Beeing in the meantime a well-known BMW customizer (Spitfire etc.), we know quite some people from Munich.... So lets call the Munich guys to ask if they somewhere, somehow, maybeeee, with a littlegoodwill, would find a prototype tail section of the new RR and maybeeeeeeeeeeeee those head lights too???? Some calls and mailslater and with the promise to share a good whisky and a cigar at the next Custom event - we got the solution. TheTail is going to look very RR 2019 like, but of course customfitted and add-ons from VTR. News seat, handmade alloy covers, smallest 3 in1 tail lights etc. Also the Kineo spoke wheels have been clear right at the beginning, but this time alloy polished instead of black, and with a special Nipple set up (all black, just left & right from tire valve blue and red) – we are Swiss and we like things complicated... Exhaust ultra short SCproject. Then ton’s of HP carbon parts and HP foot pegsetc. On the front end things started to be a bit more tricky..... We cutted and cutted... the fairing became smaller and smaller, Windshieldcutteddown to almost zero. The RR 2019 head light just did not want to fit in the fairing, even if we would build alloy cover by hand.. Dani, still wanted the XR be viible and RRRrrrrrraacing.... But it just did not look nice and VTR style..... after the 7th or 8th attempt, Stefano had THE idea – let’s build it Supermoto, Superbike style and take all the fairings away and build a big No. plate at front instead! Yep that isit – but we did not want the same as on Shitane and ST33 NineT’s (head lights integrated in No. plate). So we decide to “hide” them underneath the No plate. Combined with the tail light solution, you almost see NO Lights – meaning this is racing only.... Nevertheless, Swiss street legal! Color scheme? – Easy...! Dani just got his new BMW series 5 touring but with special order paint “Nardo Grey” – s stunner and perfectly matching carbon parts. So brothersister Bikes (also the S1000 RR) did get the same Nardo grey. Some jokes on the bike? Welcome to VTR. Inspired by Rallye cars and a Subaru freak in the area of Schmerikon, the pilot Naming label became a FOO KIN FAST sticker, besidesthe usual VTR shi... like “Turtle-Rabbit” signs a throttle lever etc.The bike was sold the second day of the Swiss Moto show in February. STR 10 does has his new homea long side with some other VTR Customs at a well-known client’s garage. So she and we feel happy and just to be clear and avoiding several e-mail requests – none of the parts are available to shop or as a kit. They are all handmade on measure. One of our client promises is – we are building single and unique bikes and no copies will ever be reproduced by us.

Specs:

• Basis:BMW R S1000 XR 2017, 4’800Km (Ex Demo bike)
• Tail S1000 RR 2019 –customized
• Front No. plate: VTR Customs handmade Aloy
• Wheels: KineoSpoke wheels 6x17” / 3,5 x 17”
• Tyres: Race Slicks (will be deliverd to customer with super sport street legal tyres)
• Tail light and turn indicators: Kellermann Atto 3in 1
• Front Light: HIGHSIDER
• Exhaust: SC Project (Racing only)-will be deliveredwith street legal version)
• Handlebar: Magura SX Black Line
• Brake & Clutch levers: Pro Brake
• Carbon Parts BMW HP & Illennerger
• Gas Tank cap Rizoma
• Engine, Drive, Frame: StandardBMW S1000 XR
• Rear Shockabsorber and front Fork, BMW standard
• Seat: Custom made by VTR Customs and Yves Knobel upholstery, Kaltbrunn
• Paint job: nardo greyby Paint Shop Freuler, Benken

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