LowRide magazine puts the BMW R nineT on a diet
When the R nineT was on the drawing board, BMW engineers made sure it was easy to modify. And that custom-friendliness has…
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Your complete guide to cafe racer motorcycles, from classic bikes to modern-day specials.
Here you’ll find everything from traditional Triumph and Honda cafe racers to the latest BMWs, Ducatis and Yamahas from new wave builders. Discover the cafe racer parts, seats and performance upgrades that’ll take your own cafe racer bike to the next level.
X-Wing: Rodsmith Gets Carried Away With a Honda Gold Wing
Craig Rodsmith is one of the elite few that truly deserves to have an ego…but doesn’t. According to photographer Grant Schwingle, the…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 15 October, 2017
This week we’re serving up a sharp pair of matching Honda CB900s, an oddly intriguing CB550, a brawny Katana restomod, and an…
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Boosted and Ballistic: A 350-pound nitrous-fuelled W650
It might have immaculate retro style, but you wouldn’t pick the Kawasaki W650 for its performance. With 50 horses on tap it’s…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 17 September, 2017
Bare metal cafe racers from Spain and Italy are spinning our wheels this week, plus a Honda XR600R tracker conversion and a…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 10 September, 2017
A slinky Honda CBR250RR from a builder called Lunatic, a BMW R nineT tribute to the Dakar crushing R/80 GS, a 280-pound…
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Smooth Operator: Vagabund’s sleek BMW R100R
For some people, building a minimalist motorcycle simply means stripping off as much stuff as possible. And practicality be damned. But there’s…
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Runway Success: An aviation-styled Guzzi Le Mans
Not every builder we feature works on motorcycles for a living—for many, it’s a hobby or a sideline business. But we’ve never…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 3 September, 2017
An incredible Ducati 750 Imola replica from Indonesia, a hot-rodded Honda CT70 from the USA, a Bonnie from Spain and a Yamaha…
Read more »Federal Moto Spice up the Royal Enfield Continental GT
The holy grail of most custom builders is to develop a signature style. But there’s no exact science to this. It can…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 20 August, 2017
Dustin Kott returns with the bike he said he’d never build. Plus a sleek Harley Super Hooligan racer, and a Benelli restomod…
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Red Alert: Ducati 900 SS i.e. by Moscow’s Birdie Customs
Customizing a motorcycle is often a game of knowing what to change, and what to leave alone. Some bikes have attributes that…
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