Off-the-Shelf Attitude: Rough Crafts Custom Parts for your Harley
Your bike is as much an extension of your body on the open road as it is your personality when parked at…
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Photo galleries and profiles of the most exciting cafe racers, bobbers, scramblers, trackers and other custom motorcycles.
New Found Hope: ICON’s nostalgic Honda VF1000F Interceptor restomod
As far as 80s sportbikes go, the Honda VF1000F Interceptor often gets overshadowed. Riding on the success of the VF750F, Honda introduced…
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Sport Edition: JvB-moto’s radical 1988 Harley FXR
Cries of heartbreak echoed across the internet when Harley-Davidson discontinued the revered Dyna. But it’s easy to forget that the Dyna’s inception…
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Xtra Rowdy: STG Tracker’s custom Harley XR1200
Released in 2008, the Harley-Davidson XR1200 should have been a big hit for The Motor Co.; an athletic Sportster fashioned after the…
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Zwei: A 53-kilogram two-stroke land speed racer by Wannabe-Choppers
Enrico ‘Ricky’ de Haas founded Wannabe-Choppers at just 15, brimming with imagination and unaffected by the conventions that often accompany adulthood. 20…
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Alfonso: An outrageous BMW boxer from The Netherlands
As an established fabricator, Wido Veldkamp’s business involves more than just building custom motorcycles. His shop, WiMoto, gets just as many orders…
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So Fresh, So Green: A lush BMW R100 street tracker by Heiwa
The name of Kengo Kimura’s workshop, Heiwa, means ‘peace’ in Japanese, and his logo depicts a flying pigeon. Those sound like random…
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Twinboss: The story of Irwann Cheng’s twin-engine Yamaha RXZ
Remember the Yamaha RXZ Twinboss twin-cylinder two-stroke? Neither do we, because it never existed—except in the mind of Irwann Cheng. The Malaysian…
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Slick Single: An AKT NKD 125 street tracker from Colombia
AKT Motos is one of the biggest motorcycle marques you’ve probably never heard of. Based in Colombia, the company was started 20…
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Back from the Brink: 2LOUD revives a neglected Kymco KTR 150
Many would scoff at the idea of customizing a small commuter motorcycle. But in countries like Taiwan, where 150 cc bikes like…
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Just Right: An elegant Honda CB350 café racer from Taiwan
By day, Shawn Lin creates concept art for the gaming industry—a space where fantasy and science fiction reign supreme. But the motorcycle…
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Shred in style: Budget-friendly mods for your street-legal dirt bike
The street-legal dirt bike scene has one of the biggest mod cultures in motorcycling, and if you don’t believe me, it’s been…
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The Mojavian: A Harley-Davidson Baja 100 scrambler from Texas
“Who wouldn’t want to build a two-stroke Italian Harley?” asks Chris Tope, almost irreverently. “It’s the original Harley-Davidson Pan America!” As the…
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Bayern Madness: Another knockout BMW R nineT by Rough Crafts
Eight years ago, Rough Crafts knocked us off our feet with their first-ever custom BMW R nineT. The Taiwanese superstar custom shop…
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Rock On: UCC chops the new Indian Scout for Mikkey Dee
Ask Indian Motorcycle’s design director, Ola Stenegärd, which part of the new Indian Scout he’s most proud of, and he’ll most likely…
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