5:24Back to Black - BMW R1100R Plastics Restoration
BMW R1100R, BMW, Car, BMW R11
Rare restoration footage of BMW R1100R, curated from across the internet. Browse 1 clip below.
Restoration footage documents the painstaking process of bringing a car back from the dead — stripping paint, rebuilding engines, fabricating parts that haven't been manufactured in decades. These videos are part craftsmanship documentary, part detective story, as restorers track down correct components and make difficult decisions about originality versus improvement. The best restoration content captures not just the technical work but the emotional journey of saving a piece of automotive history.
The BMW R 1100 R is a standard motorcycle with a 1,085 cc (66.2 cu in) air/oil-cooled flat twin engine, made by BMW Motorrad from 1994 through to 1999. Like all of the brand's motorcycles of this period, all 53,685 units were made at BMW's Spandau, Berlin factory. The R 1100 R was succeeded by the model year 2001 R 1150 R. The R 1100 R was reviewed favorably by Ulf Böhringer of the Süddeutsche Zei...
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