VOL. 53 ISSUE 43 NOVEMBER 1, 2016 P77
T
he gentrification of the Scrambler is now complete. This
motorcycle—part of the BMW Motorrad Heritage range that
includes the original R nineT, and the soon-to-be-released
R nineT Pure and Racer—will have hipsters crying into their soy
decaf lattes at the death of the pure scrambler, the ones that you
had to build yourself by hand, man.
This motorcycle is the equivalent of an inner-city factory from
50 years ago that's been gutted, worked over by interior design-
ers and sold to finance brokers as high-end apartments.
It's a pretty cynical way of looking at this indeed beautiful ma-
chine, but that's just the feeling I get.
THE RETRO
SCRAMBLER IS
NOW WELL AND
TRULY MAINSTREAM
WITH THE DEBUT
OF BMW'S R nineT
SCRAMBLER
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEVIN WING, JON BECK AND BMW
DAS SCRAMBLER
