Elegance is a word easily ascribed to beautiful, often delicate, objects. But when you can assign it to a purposeful and muscular motorcycle, you know you’re looking at the work of a master craftsman. Tom Simpson of Foundry Motorcycle has certainly earned that accolade over the years, and this 1979 BMW R80 showcases the peak…
Read more »
The problem with exceptionally tidy café racers is that they often belie the amount of work that’s gone into them. Just look at this Kawasaki Z650 café racer from the UK’s Foundry Motorcycle. On the surface, it shows the sort of considered craftsmanship that we’ve come to expect from Foundry’s Tom Simpson—but it took a…
Read more »
Anyone with an email address knows that the internet is rife with scammers. It’s easy to get hoodwinked if you’re not vigilant—but luckily this particular story has a happy ending. It starts with a scam, and ends with a stunning Moto Guzzi street tracker from one of the UK’s best custom builders. Before this Guzzi’s…
Read more »
How do you wedge a Buell Cyclone engine into a Ducati Pantah frame? According to Tom Simpson of England’s Foundry Motorcycle workshop, you don’t. Which is exactly why almost everything on this scintillating Buell-powered café racer is scratch built. Let’s rewind: almost six years ago, Tom was busy building a Ducati 600 TT2 replica, using…
Read more »
Tom Simpson is a busy man. As the only pair of hands at Foundry Motorcycle, he’s usually in the workshop six days…
Read more »
Building custom motorcycles is a changing profession these days. The lathe in the corner is oft replaced by a CAD workstation wired…
Read more »
Few custom motorcycles have the cachet of the legendary Triton. The mash-up of a Norton featherbed frame and Triumph twin motor has…
Read more »