Black Beauty: NCT's wild custom BMW R100

There's a time for building practical, sensible bikes—and there's a time for hanging loose. Like when you're working on a shop bike, with no client or brief in sight. You're looking at National Custom Tech's latest in-house project—a BMW R100 RT dubbed Black Stallion #28. Like any good showpiece, it's loaded with tasty upgrades—and a few crazy tweaks. The NCT crew of David Widmann, Kurt Kosjek and Manuel Tilke pulled no punches here. In their workshop in Feldkirchen, Austria, the crew stripped the old boxer right down to its nuts and bolts, before rebuilding it. The engine's had a serious...