They say if you do what you love, you’ll never work a single day in your life?but they also say never to mix business with pleasure. After a few years in the custom motorcycle industry, Lithuania’s Two Wheels Empire is calling it a day, and switching their business to e-bikes. And this brooding BMW K1100 cafe racer is their swan song.
?We were happy to be part of the custom world,? says shop founder, Matt. ?We’ve built quite a few bikes in the past?but this is the last one for us. We tried to make it into a business, but overall it turned out to be a great hobby.”

Dubbed ‘Casino Royale,’ this 1991 BMW K1100 RS is the third in a series of ‘flying brick’ cafe racers from Two Wheels Empire. It shares the same general style as the first two builds?except that those were based on K100s, and Casino Royale has a parts spec that’s made it the most expensive of the three. Think of it as the evolution of the species. ?It’s still not perfect,? says Matt, ?but it’s close to perfection. There’s not much more to improve.?

The K1100 RS is the epitome of 90s BMW motorcycle design, with a big, goofy touring fairing and three-spoke wheels. But none of that fit Two Wheels Empire’s template?so they tore it down, checked and service the motor, and got cracking.
The three-spoke wheels had to go, so the team retrofitted a pair of ‘octagon’ hoops from an older K100. Then they widened the rear rim, so th...