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Rebuilding a 1974 BMW R90/6: Roughchild Turns a Vintage Airhead Into a Precision Café Racer

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— 1974 BMW R90/6 REIMAGINED: ROUGHCHILD'S BESPOKE 

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Custom shop Roughchild's 'Waud Commission' began with a 1974 BMW R90/6 that was practically headed for the scrapyard. The workshop transformed this old air-cooled boxer (the 'Airhead') into a precisely engineered café racer — a machine that fuses vintage BMW heritage with modern performance, handcrafted build quality, and bespoke design.

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Motoo Kajimura

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Bringing a near-scrapped airhead back from scratch — this is the real essence of custom work. Roughchild's work has a density you'd never get on paper alone. Reconstructing a 1974 R90/6 with modern engineering, tailoring it into a one-off for the client alone. A motorcycle isn't transport, it's culture — seeing work like this reminds me of that all over again.