This is not a BMW R 100 RS. This is a Suzuki 650 Burgman that’s been customized to look like a BMW R 100 RS, but you wouldn’t know that if you didn’t see the missing boxer engine. Thomas Joanotta created a “Suzuki R 65 Burgman RS,” something rather “polarizing” as Motorrad puts it, but something that is definitely interesting in the world of custom replicas.
Hailing from the Swabian town of Beilstein, Janotta is a man of many trades, an optician, watchmaker, goldsmith, and inventor. Apart from this bike, he also cooked up a few other things in his garage.
