Most customers approach a bike builder with a firm idea of what they want, armed with fat binders of photos and sketches acting as inspiration. But the most interesting builds come from people like the owner of this old Beemer—who wheeled it into Federal Moto’s workshop and said “have at it.”
And that’s quite the compliment, given the owner of the 1974-model BMW R75/6 was pretty damn attached to it. It was recently inherited from his late father, who punted the vintage boxer twin around his home town of Hannibal, Missouri for decades.
“The customer knew he wanted to customize it and keep his dad’s legacy alive,” Federal’s Mike Muller says. “While searching for a shop that could do the work, he stumbled across us and reached out”.…