BMW K100 cafe racer

I’ve always liked the look of BMW’s K-series motors. Simply because they’re boxy and when they first appeared, I thought they looked like something from Star Wars. The earlier R-series is well established as a café racer platform, but now the K-series is starting to gain favor. And this recent build from the Italian custom shop Abnormal Cycles shows what can be done with a little ingenuity. The base is a BMW K100, a one-liter longitudinal four with Bosch fuel injection—marking BMW’s first major departure from the boxer twin layout. There’s around 90 hp on tap, a useful 20 hp...