Heavily corroded, not running with many damaged or missing parts, it’s kind-of a wonder this R 65 isn’t still a pile of junk rotting away in someone’s backyard.
It’s even less likely to have been brought back from the dead when you know the owner, 27-year-old Francky Viegas, had just finished building an R80 classic racer… but he couldn’t ride it on the street as he was still stuck on a LAMs licence at the time.
“My dad proposed the idea of building an R65 to satisfy my itch for wanting to ride a boxer engine motorcycle, which eventually led me to being attracted to the smaller engine capacity for the.
