If there?s anything we like better than discovering a new builder, it?s discovering a young builder with potentially decades of work ahead of them.
The creator of this crisp and very professional custom BMW K100 is Richard Petzold, a 22-year-old who is studying Energy Technologies in Dresden. And he?s already won an award for his work.

?Bike EXIF has been the biggest source of inspiration for me over the past two years, and that basically pushed me to start my own little project,? he tells us. ?It started before I even had my motorcycle license, but now the K100 is my ?daily?.?
There?s a lot of design and fabrication going on here too, with Richard using his parents? garage as a base and delving into the world of 3D printing. His K100 is also completely street legal in Germany, which is an achievement in itself. ?That?s why you won?t see any open air filters or welds on the frame?as sad as that is.?
The base bike is a 1991 K100, making it over 30 years old. It?s the ?LT? model, which came with a higher screen than standard and pumped out around 90 hp from the fuel-injected, longitudinal inline-4.
?The engine is rebuilt, but basically stock,? Richard says. ?With open air filters, the engine only sucks in the warm air of the radiator. I did try shorter intake tubes, but ended up with lower torque at low rpms.?

?In my opinion, the stock setup is the best for the road if you don?t do open alpha-n programming [airflow optimization], which sadly was not within my budget.?...