This BMW R100 springer cafe racer “SURVIVOR” that we present today is the first unit of a limited edition of 10 units that Lord Drake Kustoms has begun to manufacture in his cafe racer workshop and that has left the fans of the BMW cafe racer motorcycles without words.
The idea was to create a piece ofart on two wheelsand above all acustom BMW R that had not been seen to date. It is well known to all lovers of the world of custom motorcycles, that theBMW R100 seriesarepossibly the mostdemanded and customized cafe racer motorcycles in recent years, but if you look at the end, they all have the same patterns… and almost none of theseBMW Rhave aSpringer front end!
A VERY CAREFUL CUSTOMIZATION
After several months investigating Fran Manen started from the front end and the most radical way in a BMW R100 was to install a Springer fork (something that has practically not been seen to date in any BMW R cafe racer or scrambler) accompanied by a drum brake rim for a more classic touch.
Springer fork
The other great challenge and perhaps the most difficult thing in this cafe racer motorcycle with a very retro air, has been to create another rear suspenssion system and for this, the swingarm was modified, the subframe was eliminated and the chassis was modified so that they could be installed two shock absorbers under the seat.
Shock absorbers under the seat
The following is a clean handlebar without buttons with inverted levers, a Motogadget Speedometer and a very original and totally unique button panel. Another challenge has been to modify the cafe racer fuel tank to adapt it to the chassis and then create an electrical installation that is as hidden as possible.
Handlebar with inverted levers
The bobber-type leaf spring seatsupport for BMW R, the button panel located in front of the gas tank, the license plate holder, the battery box or the rear fender and their brackets have been handmade entirely.
Brown leather, white powder paint and chrome plating combined with antiqued brass plating parts have colored this impressive BMW R with springer fork.
LIMITED EDITION
This BMW R100 springer cafe racer was originally a project that Fran Manen (Lord Drake Kustoms owner in Miami and Spain) planned to build in his cafe racer workshop in Miami(USA).
Unfortunately, in 2020 the COVID 19 arrived and Fran Manen was in Spain at that time, so due to the impossibility of traveling to the United States for a while, he decided to develop the project in his motorcycle transformation workshop in Málaga (Spain); since he (like everyone else) he didn´t know how long this situation was going to last and how long it would take to be able to travel again to Miami, his other city of residence and where his LDK brand is headquartered..
This bike is the first unit built from a limited edition of 10 units that Lord Drake Kustoms has put on sale and has been sold to a customer in Brazil. Units 2 and 3 are already sold and under construction (for clients in Madrid and Dubai). But units 4 to 10 are still available to be ordered and shipped worldwide.
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LDK owner Fran Manen designed this Sportster bobber on a 2007 Harley Davidson Sportster Low that had been in an accident. Its owner wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to repair the damage and keep it original; turn it into a single-seater bobber bike.
A dragbar for Sportster, round mirrors at the ends of the Biltwell grips, rubber bellows and metal covers between the triple clamps for Harley, a new fender made of metal in Lord Drake Kustoms and led indicators stand out at the front.
Dragbar for Sportster
Another touch is the bobber-style air cleaner and Sportster exhausts with black heat strip; and of course, later, the remapping and diagnosis with DIAG4BIKE of this Harley Davidson has been carried out.
Exhausts for Sportster with anti-heat tape
Shorter shocks and handcrafted fenders
The Harleyrear shocks have been replaced with shorter ones, the subframe has been shortened, and a new bobber-style fender for the Sportster has been made of metal.
Wheel with Fat Daddy tires
A set of custom spoked wheels (Fat Daddy) keeping the original measurements, a Biltwell solo seat, a license plate bracket with side arm for Sportster manufactured in Lord Drake Kustoms.
The painting of the Sportster Bobber GLOSSBLACK is very simple, practically the entire bike has been painted in gloss black and some of the parts have been treated with baked electrostatic powder paint of the same gloss finish color by the Metal Colors company.
Other parts
The rest of the components have been supplied by the online store of parts and accessories for Harley “Customiza tu Moto”. ¡Don’t forget to visit it!
This time we present a very exclusive custom motorcycle: A VICTORY HAMMER 8 BALL; since there are very few units of this American brand on the market and even fewer that have been modified. And this time we have done it in our motorcycle customization workshop in Spain.
Lord Drake Kustoms does not usually say “NO” and this time we have shown it with the customization of this Victory Hammer 8 Ball that his client was about to sell because he thought that it could not be modified or transformed into something more attractive.
New 21” fat-spoked front rim, fender cutout, metal spoiler keel fabrication, fully handcrafted seat, custom-made metal rear fender to leave the 240 wheel visible, license plate holder, new dual headlight , exhausts and endless details give shape to this brutal customized Victory.
Finally Fran Manen (owner of LDK)opted for a military green paint with matte black graphics… all accompanied by parts and components with matte black baked powder paint made by Metal Colors.
The upholstery of the seats and grips in brown and all the turn signals and LED tail light give the final look to a job that seemed impossible on a custom bike as peculiar as this completely modified VICTORY.
Once the modification work of this transformedVictory Hammer motorcycle has been completed,the homologation of all the reforms carried out on a custom motorcycle have been carried out, which will undoubtedly very soon be rolling through the streets attracting the attention of everyone in its path.
“Customize your Harley Davidson Breakout motorcycle and give it a new look at Lord Drake Kustoms’specialized Harley Davidson workshop in Malaga”…. With this phrase is how the history of this custom motorcycle begins in our motorcycle transformation workshop in Spain.
And we did that!… Francisco Alí Manén got down to work and designed a custom motorcycle with some changes that will further highlight the qualities of this Softail Breakout with a 103 engine, to give it a new, more brutal air without losing its essence.
How to transform this Harley Davidson Breakout
We started with the transformation of a Harley Davidson that was totally original and which we have turned into a customized Harley Davidson in a very elegant and imposing way at the same time. The original model was a Softail Breakout, so the main thing was the custom rims and the Harley 240 rear wheel kit and we had it.
The first thing was to remove the seat and the original Harley fenders, as well as remove the entire subframe. Next, we handcrafted a new rear fender to house a new wider rear tire(250) from Avon tires and a single-seater seat; and to give it the desired silhouette, we installed an air suspension for Harley Davidson from the Legend Air brand.
To finish the rear and leave the wheel and rear fender as clean as possible, we installed the license plate on one side with a handmade license plate holder and installed micro turn signals and led lights 3: 1 Kellerman Atto. Many of the custom parts we have bought in the motorcycle accessories store “customiza tu moto”.
Finally, we installed some Vance & Hines Big Radius exhaustpipes and an S&S air filterwith double inlet and later we did the Harley remapping with DIAG4BIKE. At the front there have not been many changes, a new, smaller handcrafted front fender, LED indicators integrated in the hand controls, original Harley Davidson handlebars and some other details such as the Avon grips. Arlen Ness gas cap.
The painting has been easy as the original color has been kept, matt gray, which has been combined with elements and details in chrome or black.
The result is here: An impressive Harley Davidson Softail Breakout with the custom touch of Lord Drake Kustoms.
This bike came into the hands of Francisco Alí Manén (owner of Lord Drake Kustoms) from a customer in Cantabria, who initially wanted to make a cafe racer or single-seater scrambler, but finally opted for one with a seat for two people.
Finally this legendary BMW R100 has become a beautiful scrambler motorcycle beautiful and suitable for riding the rider and his passenger without losing the touch of a customized motorcycle It has been completely overhauled and looks very elegant and aggressive at the same time; due to the combination of the aged metal finish of the fuel tank with the brown of the seat.
This custom BMW has been completely disassembled, sandblasted and then powder coated with electrostatic powder coating. The front suspension was then modified and the two-seater scrambler subframe for BMW R was produced.
A Biltwell tracker handlebar positioned downwards and Harley Davidson shock absorbers formed the frame of this BMW R scrambler.
Tracker Biltwell handlebars
Seating for two
On this BMW R100 scrambler two, the seat base has been manufactured and then upholstered in brown with rhomboids and a number plate holder by hand. The front mudguard has also been shortened and shorter BMW R exhaust tailpipes have been fitted along with the typical black heat tape on the tailpipes.
LED indicators, Motogadget mini digital odometer, Biltwell grips, mirrors and other details such as the ignition key on the side or the air handles, have completed the customisation work of a scrambler bike.
This Harley Davidson Sportster 48 cafe racer transformed in the Harley Davidson workshop in Spain owned by Lord Drake Kustoms has been commissioned by a client who already had a Sportster 48 Bobber transformed by us.
Cafe racer motorcycles tend to use Japanese motorcycles as a base more than Harley Davidson, but this does not mean that we cannot customize a cafe racer motorbike with a Sportster base from the legendary American brand. Precisely and although LDK is not an official Harley Davidson dealer in Malaga, we are specialists in this brand of custom motorcycles both for transforming them and for their repair and maintenance.
Going back to this Sportster cafe racer, the first thing he did Fran Manen (owner of Lord Drake Kustoms) It was to decide what type of custom bike it was going to be … and he was clear about it: It had to preserve the spirit of a Sportster Forty Eight and at the same time be a cafe racer of the purest classic style.
To achieve this we have kept the tiresand the original Sportster 48 tank and from there we have started to customize and transform a motorcycle in cafe racer style with very basic elements: Cafe racer tail with single seat and semi-handlebars, accompanied by other parts for custom bikes. that we have acquired in the online store of accessories and parts for motorcycles:Customize your Motorcycle.
Lord Drake Kustoms is a distributor of Ohlins shock absorbers in Spain, that is why we have chosen to install a pair of this brand to give it the correct height and get the height of the Roland Sands Design cafe racer tail to match the Sportster 48 fuel tank, after have trimmed and modified the entire rear and subframe of a custom bike in a very elegant way .
Some Vance and Hines short shots, an air filter for Harley Rough Crafts, a spoiler keel for Sportster, a 4.75-inch motorcycle headlight grille, handmade license plate holder for Sportster, LED turn signals and mirrors on the grips along with many others. Custom accessories have shaped this Sportster cafe racer.
Regarding the finish, we have respected the paint and graphics of the Harley Davidson special edition of the fuel tank and so that it does not lose prominence, we have painted the rest of the motorcycle in black except for the number 48 on the tail and some details in white such as the rim of the headlight or the grilles of the side covers that, together with other pieces, have been painted with electrostatic powder paint in the oven by the Metal Colors company.
The Olivares Foundation will have a Harley motorcycle customized by Lord Drake Kustoms to help in their fight against childhood cancer.
This post that we publish today is not to talk about customizing a motorcycle. It is a post aimed at all of you who are parents, uncles, grandparents … or simply think that children are the essence of life.
Today has been a very big day for Francisco Alí Manén and our company Lord Drake Kustoms, because after several months we have managed to make the start of a GREAT PROJECT a reality…. probably one of the most important projects that we will do in our career both personally and professionally… and also in Malaga where we have one of our motorcycle transformation workshops.
It is not about transforming a Harley Davidson for a world championship, nor about winning a prize, nor about making a famous motorcycle … it is something much simpler and that cannot be paid with money or with prizes … “The best and most beautiful of this life cannot be seen or touched, it must be felt with the heart”
Almost a year ago in the midst of a pandemic, a friend and client (thank you David) told us about the difficulties that the OLIVARES FOUNDATION dedicated to supporting children with cancer and sponsored by singer Pablo Alborán and to study the possibility of seeing some way of collaborating with them and meeting Andrés Olivares, their president and founder.
A few days later we met, talked and after learning about the history of the foundation and, above all, knowing how hard the day-to-day life of these children with cancer and their families can be, we shaped a campaign that begins today.
Today finally, Fran Manen shook hands with Andrés Olivares, president and founder of the Olivares Foundation to kick off a project in which we are going to customize a unique motorcycle, but not unique because of the motorcycle itself, not because it is a Harley or because it has very nice rims … It will be a unique custom motorcycle for what it is going to represent.
This bike, once finished, will be raffled off and will be the flagship of a great campaign of events that we are going to carry out jointly by the “Olivares Foundation” and our company “Lord Drake Kustoms”.
All the funds raised in the raffle for this customized Harley Davidson and from the rest of the activities will be donated entirely to the foundation, so that they can continue their work to support children with cancer and their families.
In our workshopswe have a giant poster of a man almost flying on a motorcycle that says: “4 wheels move the body … 2 wheels move the soul!” … I hope that the two wheels of this motorcycle that we are going to make move the souls of many people and we manage to raise as much money as possible to help these great fighters who take care of our children … Yes, we say ours, it is a problem that you it can touch you, me or anyone….
So fasten your seat belts because we are going to take off in this project transforming and modifying an impressive motorcycle, which we hope will arouse the admiration of everyone and above all that it touches the soul so that we make sure that children suffering from cancer do not lose their childhood.
Fran Manen
PS: Before starting the project, we want to thank Andrés Olivares, Paula and the rest of the Fundación Olivares team for the trust you have placed in us, for the great work and good you do … and above all, MANY THANK YOU for everything you have taught us during the visit to your facilities….
What we have seen today cannot be seen with the eyes… it can only be seen with the heart!
Lord Drake Kustoms presents the Vespa Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada.
For those of you who follow us regularly, you already know that Francisco Alí Manén with his company Lord Drake Kustoms was the first motorcycle customizer to make a Harley for Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada. Such has been the success that we have repeated this year, this time with a colorful Vespa in the purest style of the famous fashion designer.
This Vespa has been presented at the Catwalk Larios “Malaga Fashion Week 2021” and has been the center of all eyes, both from the public and from the specialized press.
All pink and full of red hearts, this original Vespa for Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada has given style and color to this event in which there have been many personalities from the world of fashion.
This little Vespa was accompanied at the presentation by her older sister, the Harley “Agathizada” who gave so much to talk about in its day for its originality and for breaking all kinds of molds in the world of custom motorcycles.
Little by little, Indian motorcycles begin to be more and more present in the custom motorcycle market and they are subtracting sales from their main rival, Harley Davidson. Although we are not an Official Indian Dealer in Spain, we have a workshop service specialized in custom motorcycles of this brand in Malaga both for repairs and maintenance as well as for transformations and customizations of these motorcycles.
The modification and transformation of Indian Scout motorcycles does not stop growing, since this model is the most popular when it comes to customizing an Indian. At Lord Drake Kustoms we are specialists in wide rear wheel kit with 240 and Ohlins shock absorbers for Indian.
We also have a wide range of custom rims for Indian Scout and other models directly imported from the United States, since we have a custom workshop in Miami.
We specialise in bobber seats for Indian Scout and a multitude of accessories and components, many of them available for sale through our online shop Customiza tu Moto.
A beautiful Indian with custom rims and 240 rear wheel that has been finished with an impressive handcrafted bobber rear fender for this Scout and that has been accompanied by Ohlins shocks and a bobber solo seat kit for Indian Scout.
In this report we are going to talk about a Triumph Bonneville T100 transformed by Lord Drake Kustoms in his workshop specialized in Triumph in Spain, where they have modifiedthis Triumph Army to give it a new mix of cafe racerand scramblerair.
With total freedom on the part of the client, Fran Manen (owner of LDK) has carried out the design and customization work of this Triumph with a very attractive result since it presents elements of cafe racer motorcycles such as semi-handlebars and elements of scrambler motorcycles such as knobby tires.
For the transformation of thisTriumph, the 2011 injection model Bonneville T100 has been chosen. The mythical English brand Triumphhas more and more followers in Spainwhen it comes to customization.
That is why in recent years Lord Drake Kustoms has been adapting to the growing demand for this type of customization of cafe racer and scrambler motorcyclesto the point of becoming one of the temples of the transformation and modification of Triumph motorcycles in Spain.
Also added is an LDK handcrafted license plate bracket, modified front fender and subframe, modified side covers and a metalcolorscompany powder paintjob for all matte black parts.
All this has given life to this Triumph Bonneville customized with the nickname “ARMY”.
Once the work is finished we have proceeded to the homologation of reforms carried out so that the client can enjoy this simple Triumph Bonneville modified and completely transformed.
