VIDEO: BMW Motorrad K100 Xaver custom scrambler

Custom retro bikes are all the rage these days, but what happens when you take a 1986 BMW K100 LT – LT standing for Luxury Touring – and strip everything off that denotes “luxury”, or “touring” for that matter? That’s what German outfit Titan Motorcycles did with a K100 LT with only 21,000 km on the odometer.

The Xaver came to be when a customer came into the shop with a Harley-Davidson Road King that had a dead battery and was convinced to give BMW motorcycles a try. After test-riding an R100, he remained unmoved until he rode the K100 LT.

Titan then leaned on the LT, stripping out everything that was not the essence of a motorcycle, installing a Remus exhaust on the 987 cc “Flying Brick” flat inline-four engine. Blechmann Aluminium provided the hand-made custom tank, seat cowl and headlight brackets.

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For the instruments, the analogue clocks from the K100 were thrown out, and a full digital Motoscope panel was installed in their place. A minimum of electronics are fitted in the K100 Xaver, just a CAN-Bus to drive the LED headlights, And a Tomaselli Endurobar with internal wiring.

To finish off the build, Titan made up a leather single-seat with diamond cross-hatch stitching, in scrambler style, and fitted a Brembo performance master cylinder to drive the brakes. Continental TKC80 enduro-style tyres complete the look of the BMW K100 Xaver.

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Mohan K Ramanujam

Coming with diverse and extensive experience in heavy engineering, Mohan enjoys making anything with wheels go fast, especially motorcycles. His weapon of choice is the Desmoquattro engine, and he has a penchant for anything with a dash of Italian design. Strangely enough, he insists he's a slow rider.

 

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