Fran Manen (owner of Lord Drake Kustoms) picked up this completely original BMW K100 in Madrid. Its owner wanted it to be a scrambler-style motorcycle but as low as possible, with country tires and above all the seat had to be red and the fuel tank in BMW M colors.
OTHER MODIFICATIONS
This K100 was updated in the specialized BMW workshop that we have in Spain and later we began with the customization and transformation work of the scrambler style typical of these BMWs.
Continental tires and handcrafted license plate bracket
Motogadget Mini Odometer
Highlight in this BMW scrambler, the subframe trimming and manufacturing of the handlebar arch, handcrafted two-seater seat with red upholstery, Motogadget Mini odometer, Biltwell handlebar, Continental tkc80 tires, exhaust with universal tail, handcrafted license plate support, front fender cutout and some other details shape the final result of this BMW K100 “M SCRAMBLER”.
Handmade two-seater seat
The vast majority of parts have been purchased at the custom motorcycle and cafe racer accessories storewww.customizatumoto.com.
“M” SERIES COLORS
The white paint with the light blue, blue and red lines of the BMW M series on the fuel tank; and the rest of this scrambler bike has been painted with powdercoating or baked electrostatic powder paint in matt black by the company Metalcolors
Other works
Finally, all the reforms of this BMW K100 “M SCRAMBLER” have been legalized through the HOMOLOGATION in Spain of a transformed or modified motorcycle like this striking K100 scrambler.
The transformation and motorcycle customization in Spain that Lord Drake Kustoms has carried out in his cafe racer workshop in Malaga in recent years, have a remarkable characteristic: they are all of different styles and brands.
In short, it is very easy: you can find the cafe racer of your dreams at Lord Drake Kustoms regardless of the brand, model or style of custom bike you want.
More and more custom bikes are coming directly from the Harley Davidson dealer to Lord Drake Kustoms’ workshop to receive a brutal modification or transformation for a cafe racer,bobber and even scrambler style.
The market is changing and Harley motorcycle owners are no longer satisfied with owning a Harley Davidson; now they want something more, they want a custom and unique Harley.
Each of these bikes, coming directly from the Harley Davidson dealer, adopt styles that can range from the most classic custom or chopper motorcycle to the most recent trends such as baggers…. And for the most daring, cafe raceror even scrambler modifications.
For all this, many lovers of the legendary American motorcycle brand, as soon as they buy their new motorcycle at an Official Harley Davidson Dealer, decide to bring it to some of our Harley customization workshops in Spain (Malaga)or the United States (Miami).
Especially in Miami, we do not stop collecting motorcycles at the Harley Davidon Peterson’s dealership or atAlligator Alley Harley in Sunrise; all of them from the Harley Davidson touring range (especially Road Glide and Street Glide models) to undergo a Bagger transformation.
However, in Europe, the new motorcycles that come to us from Harley Davidson dealers such as Siebla Málaga (Spain) or Capital Brussels (Belgium) are usually from the Sportster range, customers are looking for more cafe racer or bobber transformations and on rare occasions a scrambler.
This is mainly due to the fact that the culture of transformation and customization of motorcycles in Spain or other European countries is totally different from the American one.
In the end, it doesn’t matter if it’s a Harley Davidson cafe racer, a Sportster Bobber or a Road Glide Bagger… what matters is that they want unique custom bikes and for that they entrust their new bikes to Lord Drake Kustoms.
In this post you are going to know some of the Triumph modified and transformed by Lord Drake Kustoms in Spain and Miami. As there are many jobs we have done with these motorcycles, we have chosen only 5 models, all of them customized with Triumph BonnevilleT100 bases.
Triumphs modified by Lord Drake Kustoms
The first is a Triumph transformation made for a client who lives very close to Alicante (Spain). The name of this custom motorcycleis “MARDANIS” and it is the third custom bike in this series made with a 2007 Triumph Bonneville base and scrambler style with brat airs.
The second is a modification of the Triumph cafe racer made for Tom Kaulitz (guitarist of the world famous group Tokio Hotel). This motorcycle was transformed in our custom workshop in Miami and currently you could see this custom motorcycle in Hollywood or on other streets of Los Angeles (USA)where its famous owner temporarily resides.
The third is a beautiful Triumph Brat transformation made in our customization workshop in Spain, with many elements of a Triumph scrambler modification. Its owner (a girl from Madrid) is a lover of cafe racer motorcycles and it was very clear that a Bonneville was going to be hers.
The fourth is a custom motorcycle in our cafe racer workshop in Spain for an official Triumph dealer in Belgium. It is a Triumph Bonneville T100 with Scrambler modification and very radical airs and very daring colors.
And finally, we are left with the very elegant and classic style Triumph cafe racerwith Brat tints for an English customer. All black and small details in gold have made this modified Triumph one of our favorite works made with Bonneville T100.
Whatever your favorite is or if you have your own idea of a custom motorcycle, you already know where to transform and modify the Triumph cafe racer of your dreams: At Lord Drake Kustoms. And remember that no matter where you live, we ship cafe racer bikes all over the world!
Do you have doubts?… Not sure whether to choose a custom Triumph Bonnevillecafe racer, brat or scrambler motorcycle? The truth is that at Lord Drake Kustoms, we have it very clear: the one you like the most!
The transformation of Triumphcafe racermotorcycles is growing little by little, especially in countries like Spain. And at Lord Drake Kustoms, our favorite is the Triumph Bonneville, because for us it is one of the best bikes to customize.
To a Triumph Bonneville you can make a cafe racer, brat modification or go to the extreme and make a scrambler or flat track motorcycle transformation.
Fran Manen, owner of LDK, began by transforming Triumph motorcycles in Miami(where he currently has one of his cafe racer workshops) since many of his clients there are great lovers of the English brand’s motorcycles. However, in Spain the modification of Triumph has cost more work and it was not until a couple of years ago that it really began to be in great demand.
The transformation of Triumph into a cafe racerin Spain and the rest of the world is mainly possible, thanks to the Bonneville model, which due to its geometry and its chassis allows for customizations of motorcycles of almost all styles.
The customization workshops and the customers who love custom bikes themselves have gradually discovered the potential of the Triumph Bonneville when it comes to obtaining an authentic cafe racer motorcycle.
Thanks to the Bonneville, customizing a Cafe Racerstyle motorcycle in Spain is somewhat easier (compared to the BMW cafe racerfor example), since this motorcycle is easy to find in the second-hand motorcycle marketand they are also in a been very good and at very competitive prices.
In this post you will see some of the transformations and modifications ofTriumph Bonnevillethat Lord Drake Kustoms has carried out in Spain and the United Statesfor customers around the world; and you can see that it is a motorcycle that lends itself to almost everything.
The transformation and modification of BMW motorcyclesdoes not stop growing around the world, but sometimes achieving the cafer racer of your dreams with a BMW motorcycle of the R or even K series, begins to be more and more difficult due to the shortage of motorcycles BMW in good condition.
The amount of work in the modification of BMW cafe racer motorcycles carried out by motorcycle transformation workshops and even individuals has led to the second-hand market for these motorcycles becoming scarcer, expensive and of poorer quality.
Now Lord Drake Kustoms customers, don’t have to worry about searching BMW R100 or K75 motorcycles (for example) to be able to get the cafe racer of your dreams; as we take care of finding the base bike for you and also putting it fully ready before doing the customization work in the cafe racer or scrambler style.
The incorporation to our team of two mechanics specialized in BMW motorcycles and having our own motorcycle painting and sandblasting service allows us to completely disassemble a BMW to restore it thoroughly, both mechanically and aesthetically; before making the cafe racer modification that the customer wants.
This allows us to provide a specialized workshop service for BMW motorcycles, as well as cafe racer or scrambler modifications and transformations. And of course all this with their respective mechanical and cosmetic guarantees.
It doesn’t matter if a BMW R100 cafe racer or a BMW K100 scrambler. Now you just have to worry about ordering us the scrambler or cafe racer of your dreams regardless of the custom BMW motorcycle you want, because Lord Drake Kustoms takes care of everything: purchase of the motorcycle, set-up, transformation and modification, homologation and ITV, transfer and delivery to your home.
It is difficult to choose between the best BMW cafe racer customized by Lord Drake Kustoms; because the transformation and modification of BMW motorcycles in Spain that we have carried out in the last 5 years is very wide and varied.
The BMW cafe racer modification has many variants, starting with the bases to be used which can be BMW of the K series or BMW of the R Series. In our BMW preparation workshop in Spain we have carried out customization work on BMWR100 models. r80, r65, r45, r100r, r80r, r1100s, r1150, r850r and r1200s; and of course BMW K100 and K75.
In this post, we have tried to choose some of them as an example of how we can make the cafe racer of your dreams a reality with a BMW R or BMW K base, even mix different styles of motorcycle customizations such as the Brat, the Scrambler and the own Cafe Racer.
BMW Cafe Racer customized
In 2013, Lord Drake Kustoms opened a new cafe racer workshop in Malaga (his second headquarters, after the one he has in Miami); And this meant that Spanish and European customers could more easily access the modifications and cafe racer bikes that LDK used to make with BMW bases since its inception in the United States.
The increase in orders for cafe racer motorcycles was so great after the opening of the motorcycle customization workshop in Spain (and especially BMW and Triumph modifications), that we are currently preparing the opening in Madrid, of what will be our third transformation workshop of BMW motorcycles (along with that of Miami and Malaga).
Surely, you have seen one of our BMW cafe racer or the motorcycle of your dreams in magazines like Cafe Racer World or other internationally famous magazines; as some of the BMW café racer that we have modified in recent years have set trends and been very successful
And of course, if you visit our custom motorcycle section on our websiteyou can discover where to customize your Cafe Racerstyle motorcycle in Spain and order the cafe racer of your dreams with just one call.
Although for us, the important thing is not the size of a custom motorcyclecafe racer workshop. What is truly important is the quality of the motorcyclemodification and transformation work carried out and the quality of the service we offer to our customers.
It is true that due to the large number of custom motorcycle orders we have and to maintain a high level of quality in our cafe racer motorcycle modification work in Spain, we have had to expand our facilities. But that is just one of the many points that can influence when making good motorcycle customizations in Madrid, in Malagaor anywhere in the world.
In this post you can see numerous images of how our new cafe racer temple in Spain has been, specifically in Malaga: custom workshop area, cafe racer store, manufacturing and painting area and parts, exhibition of custom motorcycles of scrambler styles, brat, etc.
New cafe racer workshop in Madrid
We are currently working on remodeling the premises that will be our second cafe racer motorcycle workshop in Madrid, which we hope to open very soon and which will allow us to provide a better service to all lovers of custom motorcycles in Spain.
More advanced machinery and tools, more square meters of surface, but the most important thing in Lord Drake Kustoms, is the skilled workforce and the passion for this job: motorcycle transformations regardless of whether it is a simple modification ofBMWR100, a Triumph cafe racercustomization or a Harley Davison Bobbermakeover.
Currently, LDK has two motorcyclecustomization workshops located in Spain (Malaga) and in the United States (Miami, which was the brand’s first workshop and the one that has given it a boost worldwide).
The constant increase in orders and orders for BMW or Triumphcafe racer motorcyclesfor customers from the entire northern half of the country and especially from the capital, has led to the decision to open a third cafe racer workshop in Spain.
We are already working on the preparation of the facilities of what will be the new temple of the motor and the cafe racer in Madrid and that will have a modification and transformation workshop for BMW, Triumph, Harley Davidson and any other brand.
In this new motorcycle modification workshop in Madrid, we will work on all styles: Cafe Racer, Scrambler, Brat, Bobber, etc; and we will be specialized in the customization and modification of BMW R, Triumph Bonneville or Harley Davidson Sportster models.
And of course we will have a place where all lovers of the world of custom motorcycles and motorcycles in general can meet, have a coffee and talk about what we like the most: motorcycles, cars and everything that has a gasoline engine!
Despite the fact that the current situation caused by COVID-19 has delayed the work of our new premises a bit, we continue to advance little by little and we hope very soon to invite you to visit the new temple of cafe racerin Spain that we are preparing with great enthusiasm.
