Custom Bikes Of The Week: 1 March, 2020
A nitrous-fueled Indian Scout racer in Siberia, the first Yamaha Yamaha FZX750 we’ve featured, a classy Monster from Revival Cycles, and what appears to be a two-stroke Suzuki Katana … but isn’t.
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Super Scooter: A NOS-fuelled Piaggio NRG drag racer
The words ‘drag racing’ and ‘scooter’ shouldn’t belong in the same sentence. But if you ask us, the idea of boosting micro-sized machines to race instead of commute sounds like buckets of fun. Especially when your race bike makes five times its original power, runs nitrous, and weighs next to nothing. This plucky little sprinter…
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Continental Racer: Sinroja’s Royal Enfield Drag Bike
A couple of years ago, Sinroja Motorcycles were one of the first workshops to join Royal Enfield’s new custom program. They built a couple of bikes, and the relationship went well. So when Sinroja were looking for a brand partner for their latest project, they knew just who to call. The Leicester-based custom shop wanted…
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Starrider: A CB750K with a street-legal nitrous kit
The CB750 is one of the most customized bikes of the past half-century. But just when we thought we’d seen every possible permutation, along comes something completely different: a DOHC ‘K’ with a nitrous injection system. ‘Starrider’ comes from brothers Lion and Ben Ott of Munich-based Motoism, and it’s road-legal on even the TÜV-strangled roads…
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Achilles: BMW’s new R1250RS gets the drag bike treatment
In Europe, the Sultans of Sprint competition produces some of the wackiest drag bikes, year on year. It’s written in the rules:…
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Drag Bike: A 130 hp nitrous-fueled Indian Scout Bobber
Right now, thousands of fans and motorcycles are converging on Monza for The Reunion—a weekend-long celebration of custom motorcycle culture. It’s also…
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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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The Never-Ending Story: Building a Yamaha TR1 drag bike
The European sprint scene has exploded in the past few years. As well as the famous Glemseck 101 sprints, we’ve now got…
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Major Tom: ICON’s Nitrous-Fueled Suzuki GSX-R 750
We’ve never considered the Suzuki GSX-R 750 as custom material. A classic and soon-to-be collectible 80s sportbike, for sure—but not the sort…
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Not your usual BMW police bike: VTR’s blown R80
Police forces around the world love BMW motorcycles. But we’ve never seen one quite like this. It’s a law enforcement R80 RT…
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Drag King: Taking the Sprintbeemer ‘Furtherer’
Sprintbeemer is one of the most famous custom bikes of recent years. And it goes as fast as it looks, winning the…
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ICON 1000 Triumph Speedmaster
ICON Motosports is back with a killer new custom. It’s the company’s third hookup with Triumph, who delivered a 2013-model Speedmaster for…
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