Most bikes we feature are built over the course of a few weeks. Some take months, or maybe a couple of years. But this tiny XR100, despite its diminutive size, has been two whole decades in the making.
It’s owned by photographer Gregor Halenda, who is a regular on these pages. He’s part of Team Incomplete, famous for its BMW boxer, and also helped to build an amazing two-wheel-drive KTM for the apparel brand REV’IT!
Gregor is now starting his first motorcycle business, an adventure touring company called Saku-Moto. And to celebrate, he’s just completed his third (yes, third) rebuild of this little ripper.
The story goes back to the tail end of the twentieth century. “It started with a stock 1998 XR100 I picked up after attending one of the first American Supercamps.…