Forever Young: An overgrown mini-bike with a Yamaha snowmobile engine
The last time we heard from Sean Skinner, he’d just built a Yamaha XS650-powered replica of the 1960s Schwinn Stingray Orange Krate…
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Elegant Ingenuity: A custom 1990 BMW R100RS by Wedge Motorcycle
Many feel that BMW boxer customization has become a tedious paint-by-numbers affair. It’s a fair argument—after all, most BMW R-series customs follow…
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Vantage Velocity: A Harley-Davidson Sportster Roadster by Rough Crafts
The Harley-Davidson Sportster Roadster broke cover just six years before The Motor Co. unceremoniously pulled the plug on the aging Evolution Sportster.…
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The People’s Champ: A Harley Panhead with a Merlin hand-crank starter
An invitation to build a custom bike for the annual Born Free show in the US is a massive accolade. But the…
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The Revenant: Macco Motors’ Harley XR1200 Street Scrambler
The short-lived Harley XR1200 was a special bike. If you’ve ever thrown a leg over one yourself, you know what we mean;…
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Everyman Tracker Build Pt. 6: All The Small Things
Unless you start with a pile of tubing, all-new parts and a beautiful mind, your average garage-built motorcycle comes together one piece…
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Retro Radikal: A reimagined BMW K1 from Portugal
With futuristic looks, bold colors, and more plastic than a Tupperware party, the BMW K1 was nothing if not memorable. Released in…
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Gixxer Johnny: ICON’s outrageous Suzuki GSX-R 7/11
Led by unconventional visionaries, ICON Motosports crafts motorcycle gear that blurs the lines between audacious and purposeful, while maintaining a casual indifference…
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Black Phantom: OWM’s custom Harley Softail oozes avant-garde style
While it’s no secret that we’re fans of Harley-Davidson’s Milwaukee-Eight Softail range, there’s not a single one in the bunch that we…
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Trickster: A stunt-inspired TVS Apache RTR 310 by Smoked Garage
With new motorcycles getting bigger each year—and, by extension, progressively more expensive—it might just be up to small-capacity bikes to save the…
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Izi’s Ride: a Royal Enfield Shotgun 650 built for a dystopian Netflix movie
The year is 2044, the setting is a near-future decaying London, and social inequality is at an all-time high. Izi lives in…
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Franken-Beemer: A BMW R60 restomod built from a jumble of parts
One of the enduring charms of old BMW motorcycles is that they are virtually unkillable. Even if, against all odds, you do…
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Eye Candy: Six Lust-Worthy Lots from Mecum Las Vegas 2024
An army of motorcycles has descended on Las Vegas, certainly, the most impressive array of bikes we’ve laid eyes on in a…
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WalzWerk’s custom BMW R80 is dripping with authentic patina
Marcus Walz made his bones building extreme choppers in the 90s. But as the new wave café racer scene blossomed, the founder…
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Fit for a King: Satomari’s 1981 Harley Shovelhead
If you want to learn how to weld, fabricate parts, or rebuild an engine, there’s no shortage of resources out there. But…
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