Triumph over adversity: A vintage bobber built from parts
It takes a measure of blood, sweat and tears to build a good custom motorcycle. And then there are the tricky projects…
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Photo galleries and profiles of the most exciting cafe racers, bobbers, scramblers, trackers and other custom motorcycles.
Perfectly formed: Kingston’s Yamaha MT-125 tracker
If you live in the USA, you probably won’t have seen the Yamaha MT-125. But the mini ‘hyper naked’ is popular in…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 30 June, 2019
We’ve got an electrifying selection this week, with the debut of the £90,000 Arc Vector and a look at BMW’s surprise Vision…
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Starrider: A CB750K with a street-legal nitrous kit
The CB750 is one of the most customized bikes of the past half-century. But just when we thought we’d seen every possible…
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Project Angel: A Grom and sidecar from Industrial Moto
We love Honda Groms and we love sidecars, so this brilliant little rig from Industrial Moto is a double-shot of perfection for…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 23 June, 2019
We’ve got a Harley-heavy selection this week, with a cafe racer from Italy, a scrambler from Japan and a tracker from the…
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Speed Block style: A Yamaha XZ 550 restomod
Every time Maarten Poodt completes another project, we feel like we’re looking at some obscure, classic Yamaha that we’ve never heard of.…
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The Little Bike That Could: A Hartford cafe from 2LOUD
Ever heard of the motorcycle brand Hartford? Neither had we, until just now. It’s a small manufacturer based in Taiwan, but they’ve…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 16 June, 2019
This week, we’ve got Ducati’s new Pikes Peak contender, an electric land speeder from the 70s, and a Harley-Davidson XR1000 from Mule.…
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Hip To Be Square: Walt Siegl tackles the bevel Ducati
The bevel era is part of Ducati folklore. The engineering prowess of Fabio Taglioni made the British bikes of the 1970s look…
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Type 18: Auto Fabrica builds a futuristic concept for BMW
The 21st century ‘alt moto’ custom scene was built on a love for classic style. But lately we’ve seen a trend towards…
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Sleeper: A Ducati Scrambler tweaked by a Zero engineer
A lot of folks who work at American motorcycle manufacturers are compulsive tinkerers. Indian’s design head, Ola Stenegärd, has been building choppers…
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Building a Honda CBR600F for the road trip of a lifetime
The Honda CBR600F is one of the great bargains in the motorcycling world. It’s fast, reliable, and beautifully engineered—and able to handle…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 9 June, 2019
A limited edition version of the beautiful Saroléa Manx7, a Honda FMX 650 built for the Scram Africa event, and a rare…
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Perfect Storm: A custom Buell S1 Lightning from CW Zon
Custom Works Zon have a stellar reputation in their home country of Japan, but are only just becoming known outside. Six months…
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