ISDT 1979: BMW Works ‘Enduro’ team and GS80 works motorcycle BMW provided materials to Schek’s specifications, and he reduced the machine to an incredible kilos, then later to kilos. So unique were these specials, they became known as Schek BMWs. Schek is shown here aboard one of his special BMWs in
How the BMW GS saved the company and changed the motorcycle
Herbert Schek built the BMW with which Hubert Auriol won in Winning machines in the memory. The result of the Paris-Dakar rally in was overwhelming: Rahier and Auriol took first and second place with the light, reliable Schek BMWs. Weiss und Blau: ISDT - Blogger, In June , MAX BMW received a very special BMW motorcycle: Herbert Scheck's BMW ISDT /5. By all rights, this bike should have been retired in a climate-controlled environment where wistful old riders could admire it with a cup of coffee in one hand and a cruller in another.
The bike that saved BMW - Old Bike Australasia Compare and contrast the differences from the mid 50's version of a works BMW ISDT racer with the ISDT winner pictured below. See below for some pictures of an R68 ISDT replica in a private collection here in the US.
Scheck bmw1 When BMW baulked at any slimming process, Schek built his own, carving the weight down to kg and later to kg. The so-called ‘Schek BMWs’ were so successful Herbert created a successful business building and supplying replicas to keen enduro riders.
Scheck bmw3 After a several-year hiatus, BMW competes in the 48th Sixdays with new works machines based on the R 75/5. Since the venue for the off-road race is in Dalton, Massachusetts for the first time, BMW hopes to increase the brand's awareness in the United States.
ISDT — MAX BMW Motorcycles, As early as Herbert Schek won the German enduro championship aboard a bike based on a BMW boxer. In , BMW engineer Rudiger Gutsche built a similar machine to great success. In , when it was announced that there would be a new cc+ category in German enduro racing, these two undercurrents began to hint at a future BMW production bike.
How the fathers of the GS gave birth to a legend - BMW Motorrad, More than 40 years ago, when the supercharged BMW engine which later became legendary was developed, Munich men felt obliged to offer proof that this was more than a narrow-minded breeding of high V-horsepower for fast tracks. In those days they entered the compressor BMW in the Six Days as well.