Custom Bikes Of The Week: 7 January, 2018
Our weekly roundup is back with a bang for 2018. We’ve got a cafe’d R nineT from Italy, a Dakar-worthy Honda XL600R…
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Photo galleries and profiles of the most exciting cafe racers, bobbers, scramblers, trackers and other custom motorcycles.
This vintage ‘1957 Sportster’ is actually a brand new bike
Last year, the Harley-Davidson Sportster turned 60. It’s an extraordinary milestone, with only the Royal Enfield Bullet having a longer unbroken model…
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Redux: Eastern Spirit revisits the Suzuki GS550
If you’ve been reading these pages for a few years now, you might recognize Eastern Spirit Garage from Poland. Every year or…
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Editor’s Choice: An Alternative Top 10 for 2017
As each year winds down we sharpen our pencils, trawl through our data and whip up our annual Bike EXIF Top Ten.…
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Scandinavian noir: A blacked-out CB650 from Sweden
Honda probably felt like it was onto a sure-fire winner when it launched the CB650 at the end of the 1970s. The…
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Taking It Slow: Kingston Custom’s BMW R75/5 Bobber
Today’s motorcycles are loaded with a level of tech that would have been incomprehensible thirty years ago. And it’s had a knock-on…
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Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2017
It’s been a cracking year for the custom motorcycle scene, with a delectable array of killer builds from all over the world.…
Read more »Watch It: Norton Dominator Naked by Goblin Works Garage
Reality TV shows about custom bike building have a really bad rep. But when we heard that Anthony Partridge would soon be…
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Honoring The Icon: Ton-up Garage’s Honda CB500 Four
Honda CB Fours have become so popular in the modern custom scene, we’ve almost forgotten what a big deal they were back…
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Ironwood’s new BMW Boxer goes with the grain
There’s a trend that’s picked up speed amazingly fast this year: wood on motorcycles. It’s tricky to pull off, but when it’s…
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Duked: Ryan Stephen’s knockout custom KTM 690
We don’t see many custom KTMs, but they tend to be spectacular—like Max Hazan’s supercharged art bike, or the two-wheel-drive monster built…
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KM22: Every great custom Guzzi, distilled into one
If there was ever a blueprint for the ultimate Moto Guzzi cafe racer, this is it. Kaffeemaschine’s latest build has the perfect…
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Unkonventionell: A BMW R nineT from 2LOUD
For custom builders, the BMW R nineT is the motorcycling equivalent of Plasticene. It can be pushed and pulled and reshaped in…
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Back In Black: A Bonneville cafe racer resurrection
It’s a familiar story: a treasured bike, a crash, and then a rebuild. Except this isn’t a streetfighter: it’s a low-slung Triumph…
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Desmo Flat: Home Made Motorcycles’ Ducati 750SS tracker
Most custom builders are self-taught men and women: folks with a good grasp of mechanics and an ability to ‘learn on the…
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