Speed Read, 28 February 2021
If you’re a fan of Japanese inline fours, this is your week. We’ve lined up Kawasaki GPz1100 and Kawasaki KZ1000 restomods, and…
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Harley-Davidson is an icon of American culture and the most popular marque for custom builders. Shortly after the company was founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, customizers started bobbing, chopping and dirt tracking the famous V-twins.
After WW2 Harley motorcycles were at the center of the bobber craze, and kept their lead as Californian bikers turned to choppers in the late 1950s. The 45-degree engines have their own nicknames and folklore: from flatheads, knuckleheads, panheads and shovelheads to today’s Evolution and Milwaukee-Eight motors.
The Sportster is the basis for more Harley-Davidson customs than any other model. Originally fitted with an ‘Ironhead’ motor, it turned 60 years old in 2017. It’s probably the single most customized motorcycle on the planet, and certainly has the largest supply of aftermarket parts.
Bruiser: A Harley Softail drag bike from Belgium
We’ve followed the wacky Sultans of Sprint race series since day one, impressed by the outrageous purpose-built machines that some of our…
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Umbra: Crooked’s Harley tracker is straight-up goodness
Crooked Motorcycles is a name worth watching on the custom scene in Europe. Just a couple of months ago, they impressed us…
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Obsidian Fighter: A Frisco-ed Sportster from Rough Crafts
Even though there’s been no official word from The Motor Co., it looks as if the venerable Harley-Davidson Sportster is slowly fizzling…
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Salt Flat Dreams: MB Cycles’ S&S-powered Softail
Over the past fifteen years, Martin Becker of MB Cycles has carved out a reputation as one of the best custom Harley…
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Clean Green: A Czech H-D Sportster cafe racer
Even though they require similar skills, the custom motorcycle and car worlds are vastly different. But they do sometimes meet. In the…
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Add Lightness: A wild Softail street tracker from SMCO
Suicide Machine Company build machines that go fast and turn well. Brothers Aaron and Shaun Guardado have a taste for speed, and…
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Doragon: A Harley Sportster 1200 custom from Dubai
I didn’t see many motorcycles when I paid a brief visit to Dubai a few years ago. The streets were full of…
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XR338: The compact street tracker that Harley needs
It’s strange times at Harley-Davidson. Earlier this year, rumors and spy shots of a small capacity bike for the Indian market started…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 16 August, 2020
A rare Harley shovelhead Liberator spotted in France, a punchy Suzuki ‘DR Big’ from Brazil, an enormous Honda CB1300 roaming Bangkok, and…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: Best of The No Show
The global pandemic hasn’t just shut down big events like Intermot and EICMA—a slew of grassroots custom shows have hit the pause…
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Dr. Skin: An S&S bobber built for a dermatologist
Like many accomplished customizers, Martin Becker has lived an eventful life. For almost twenty years he’s been building bikes in the beautiful…
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