The Praėm BMW S1000RR is a modern riff on the classic superbike
design think of it as a 21st century take on late-20th century racing.
As the name suggests, the donor bike is a BMW S1000RR, but the
styling comes from something you would see in the 1980s perhaps at the Suzuka
8-Hour endurance race, as Praėm suggests in their text.
The Optimus Praėm build is a logical, yet a highly more
functional, response to what we have seen in the café racer scene as of late,
and it bodes well for the future of the custom motorcycle community if more of
the same is to come from other builders. Fingers crossed.
Praėm is comprised of Sylvain &
Florent Berneron Sylvain being a former BMW Motorrad designer, while Florent
has a background in aeronautics and mechanics. You probably are familiar with
their work under the Holographic Hammer name.
For their encore public build, Praėm is unsurprisingly working
with BMW Motorrad France, hence the choice of the BMW S1000RR as the machines
underpinnings.
Other contributions come from Competition Werkes for the
exhaust, Rotobox for the wheels, Pirelli for tires, and Rizoma for some of the
hard parts.
Praėm says that their S1000RR tips the scales at 405 lbs, fully
fueled and ready to ride, which is savings of roughly 40 lbs off the base unit.
With that in mind, Optimus Praėm looks like it would be just as at home at your
local track day, as it would outside a bike-night parking lot.
