The long road to perfection: Berham's BMW R100

The custom world is saturated with chopped-up BMWs, so it takes something unusual to pique our interest. This sleek little number from Berham Customs of Berlin will do just nicely. Part café, part roadster, 'VENR' is a 1978 airhead with an odd mix of styles—slender bodywork sitting above the hefty stock motor, in perfect contrast. Builders Felix Pilz and Martien Delfgaauw have achieved a strange harmony, but it sure wasn't easy. They started by ditching the original R100/7 bodywork. The fuel is now held in a Honda CB50 tank, modded to fit the frame and plumbed in with twin taps....