IMAGES: CHAPPO
A few years ago the motorcycle world was going hipster crazy with all manner of fairly hideous ‘customised’ bikes appearing as manufacturers paid chaps with beards and tattoos to basically ruin a perfectly good machine in the name of fashion and PR. Frames were chopped, inappropriate wheels and tyres fitted, brown seats added; you name it, it happened and was then followed up by a photo shoot in some backstreet workshop to make the bike look all moody and cool. However a few good things did spring out of this fairly annoying subculture (although it’s not really a subculture when it is mainstream…) and the best is probably BMW’s R nineT.