Cafe Racer BMW R100

For custom builders, older BMW airheads are starting to approach Honda CB and Triumph Bonneville levels of popularity. This one was built by Aric Russom, an artist and photographer from Western Massachusetts. He’s owned the BMW for 13 years, and in that time, has given it two major overhauls. This is a café racer in the truest sense: it’s had a serious bump in performance as well as a change in aesthetics. Russom has fitted higher-compression heads with bigger valves, Nikasil cylinders and a lightened flywheel. The carbs are now Mikuni flatslides and the stainless mufflers are from Cone Engineering....