We’ve all heard legends of the classic K-series BMW’s reliability, but the tale of this BMW K100 street tracker takes the cake. After all, how many motorcycles do you know that can set themselves alight, but keep on ticking?
The bike’s current owner, Duncan Bonar, found the 1985 BMW K100 at a local shop with a clean title —but there was a catch. “The only caveat was that it had self-immolated via an electrical fire,” he explains. “But hey, a bike’s a bike, and a clean title is a clean title.”
Based in Los Angeles, California, Duncan is an industrial designer who likes to tinker on bikes in his downtime. By day, he works as a designer at the popular dune buggy manufacturer, Meyers Manx.…