Monza: WalzWerk’s best BMW cafe racer yet?
Most custom builders are low-volume guys. It’s often a sideline to a day job, or part of a wider operation selling parts.…
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Photo galleries and profiles of the most exciting cafe racers, bobbers, scramblers, trackers and other custom motorcycles.
Custom Bikes Of The Week: 19 July, 2020
A funky Cushman scooter bought on auction, a BMW R100 GS given the Dakar treatment, a stunning Suzuki Katana restomod, and did…
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Better than the original: A CB550 from Thirteen & Company
Once in a while, a custom motorcycle builder will create a machine that attracts attention like nothing else in their portfolio. For…
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Super Six: A Honda CBX 1000 from France
Despite the fact that motorcycles seem to keep getting bigger, the six-cylinder engine layout has never really caught on. Only a handful…
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Dark Matter: A blacked-out BMW R80 bobber from Untitled
Untitled Motorcycles is not your standard custom outfit. Output is hardly prolific, but the bikes invariably create ripples. And the founders operate…
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MJR Roach: A turbocharged Royal Enfield Himalayan
Royal Enfield have made a habit of commissioning customs from top workshops. But they’ve got a big range of skills lurking in-house—and…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 12 July, 2020
A crisp Yamaha XT500 restomod, a BMW K100 from a Spanish motor racing shop, a classy Yamaha TT600RE tracker from France, and…
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Cool Commuter: A Kawasaki ER-6n tracker from Jakarta
To most people, the mid-sized Kawasaki ER-6n is the quintessential no-frills commuter—it scores high on usability, but its looks don’t exactly set…
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Sleeper: A stealthily upgraded Triumph Street Twin
We’re all for extreme machines that draw a crowd when parked up, but we also love ‘sleeper’ customs—those that keep their performance…
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Moto Leggera: Upcycle strips down the Ducati 900 SS
Even though the Ducati 900 SS is some three decades old, we still see a lot of customs based around the 90°…
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Krugger adds street smarts to the Triumph Scrambler
We love show bikes for their cutting edge design concepts, wild engineering and straight-line performance—but they’re not much use in the real…
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Even better than the real thing: Two ‘new’ BSA trackers
In the annals of dirt track history, one of the most famous race bikes is the BSA Trackmaster. Dirt fans will know…
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Analog turns the Honda Hawk GT 650 into a flier
For some people, custom motorcycles are just a hobby. But for others, they put food on the table—and that’s when it pays…
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Slow Burner: A 1976 Honda CB550 from MONNOM Customs
Some custom builds strut like peacocks; others reveal their charms slowly. This is one of the slow burners, a seemingly innocuous CB550…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 21 June, 2020
A Honda CB650R scrambler inspired by the Dakar rally, a quirky shovelhead from Keino Cycles, and a peek at the latest bikes…
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