Italian Oscar Tasso from OC Garage (Oscar Classic Garage) is not your typical custom builder. Not because he left school at 15 to work in a repair shop, not because he had worked as much on cars than on a motorcycles during his teen age years, but because of his very unique personality and very special emotional relationship with what he builds. More than designing beautiful custom machines, Oscar is in the pursuit of re-creating elegant and refined long gone era motorcycles built for “dreams of adventure to unknown destinations”… And to do so, Oscar always work with craftsmen typically not associated with motorcycle custom building.
Truth is that such a professional approach is rarely the one bringing clients with big budgets, but Oscar doesn’t care too much. Working with small budgets and old neglected donor bikes, his creations always reach an unexpected level of class through the use of very high quality materials. From the briefing of his client known as A.G., Oscar retained only these words: “My grandfather had a color aluminum bicycle and owned a carpentry workshop” Enough to get his creative juices flowing to re-imagine this 1991 BMW R100.
It took Oscar 9 months to complete Aventura (Adventure), a period of his life he describes as full of emotions and sleepless nights, dreaming new solutions and unusual materials to give the bike turned into a sidecar the noblesse of an antique. And it’s not a great exaggeration to say that everything was custom fabricated. I will pass on the several dozens of one-off parts and small brackets and will mention only the most visible ones: the stainless steel beams chassis, the gorgeous aluminum wheels, the fairing, dash, instruments, the vintage style cushions, tapestry using old Jaguar carpet, and of course the “feather mahogany” body inlaid with mother pearl performed by Davide Aresi, including the wood CNC machined OC Garage logo. A very tiedous process all along, but so remarkable that the full detailed of the construction will be the object of an entire book. Aventura is a great example of a brand new creation turned into what looks like a piece of motorcycle history. OC Garage. (photography @ Walter Meregalli for Cyril Huze)
Not usually my style, but this is a beautiful build. I love the side car rig and the details are gorgeous. Amazing work. I’d love to own this bike.
gorgeous !
The sidecar is phenomenal . The bike though ? …zzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZ
Classy. A job that most builders would not be able to do.
Excellent. But it would be more phenomenal if built on a H-D or Indian platform.
Exactly what Cyril wrote. A new machine that many would take for an original vintage sidecar. Wood seems gorgeous.
I love it just the way it is. Indian or H-D would be just another bike with a great sidecar.
Engineering of the highest quality, could not be bettered, hats off to all, top class all the way
all the best francis j foster
Superb rig. Must have been a huge headache.
Pretty sled. Love it!
a beauty for sure, like a 50’s woodie. “rigs” are a rare site for sure but mote interesting than a trike IMO. theres a builder not far from me freedomsidecars, they build whatever you + your wallet want!!
A real work of art. Shows the work of a true craftsman. Would like to see it sitting in my garage.
The woodworking is so fine, but I actually think the build would look better with all the body panels just done in the same brushed look. Maybe save the wood for the interior of the car?
Gorgeous!
Beautiful looking bike! Thanks for the share, love reading your blog!
The side hack is classy the bike meh!
Just wat I’ve always wanted….xlent machine…
Whether you like the style / class of bike or not
You have to love the work & craftsmanship that went into this bike
I would never ride it & i would put it in a museum somewhere !
but then I’m not in he tax bracket to be able to afford it either