Custom Motorcycles Archives

Tomoto: The Tom Dixon x Venier Moto Guzzi V7

Can a motorcycle ever be classified as a piece of art? The debate is endless, and there’s no right or wrong answer.…

When your garage is packed with eleven BMW motorcycles spanning seven decades—and you have no car—it’s safe to say that your hobby…

The air-cooled Triumph Bonneville is one of the best donor bikes you can get. They’re widely available, there’s no shortage of custom…

A Moto Guzzi with more titanium than a spaceship, a limited edition (and street legal) Ducati tracker, and a Cagiva Elefant 350 bored…

It’s more fun to ride a small bike on the limit than a brute at half throttle. That’s the theory, anyway—and it’s…

Motorcycle fashions come and go, but the bobber has been around since the 1930s. In those days, it was known to speed-hungry…

We’ve been covering the modern custom scene for eight years now, extending feelers into nearly every country in the world, from Andorra…

This week, we’ve got a trophy-winning Buell from Japan, a CR750 repli-racer from Texas, and a 1968 Vincent cafe racer from France. Plus…

Vintage Gold Wings are pretty hard to find in Europe these days—and in Slovenia, rarer than a Mormon bartender. So when news…

Building a bike purely for show has its advantages. There’s no need to worry about whether it runs, steers and stops, and…

There has always been something special about the machines built inside the deBolex workshop, a few miles south of London, England. They…

In a world where everything seems to be bigger, stronger, faster, there’s a lot to be said for the style of a…

This week, we’ve got a sublime CB, a wild Sportster and a pair of vastly different race bikes. Oh, and someone actually built…

For better or worse, some mods have become commonplace. Air boxes get removed, smaller batteries get installed, and subframes are almost always…

It’s getting harder and harder to categorize custom bikes. We all know a traditional cafe racer when we see one, but these…