Space Hopper: A Yamaha SR250 for bouncing around town
John Eldridge has the kind of life most of us would envy. He’s an accomplished surfer, he runs a board shaping business…
Read more »Street tracker motorcycles take their design cues from racing flat trackers (or dirt trackers, as they are sometimes known).
Unlike the racers, a street tracker custom will have front brakes to make it road legal. It will also usually have matching 18- or 19-inch wheels, a slim and elongated fuel tank, a short and kicked up tail unit, and sometimes a high-mount exhaust.
John Eldridge has the kind of life most of us would envy. He’s an accomplished surfer, he runs a board shaping business…
Read more »Ever start out with a basic idea, only to get hopelessly carried away? A wheel swap and a simple suspension tweak were…
Read more »If you’re after a cute little bobbed street tracker, you’d be hard pressed to find a better donor than the Kawasaki W800.…
Read more »While some motorcycles are more capable than others, there are very few bad ones on the market today. Modern machines might not…
Read more »As any vehicle designer will tell you, minimalism doesn’t come easy. And Willie Knoll of Clutch Motorcycles knows that better than most.…
Read more »The Yamaha XSR700 is a smash hit with both owners and journalists in Europe, and two years after its introduction, it’s becoming…
Read more »The mighty Harley-Davidson Sportster turns a whopping 60 this year. Since 1957 it’s been modified in every imaginable way—long before the ‘custom…
Read more »Next year, the Yamaha SR400 will be celebrating its 40th birthday. It’s been in production since 1978, aside from a brief hiatus…
Read more »There’s a huge flat track resurgence happening right now, and it’s spilling over into the custom domain. Even if most of the…
Read more »Just over a year ago, Speedtractor boss Matthew Roberts was tapped on the shoulder to become the head wrench for the Japanese…
Read more »Despite a mind-boggling population of 24 million, Shanghai seems like a questionable location for a custom bike shop. Chinese laws make it…
Read more »We love seeing custom builders’ personal rides. Most of these guys spend their days wrestling with the restrictions of commissioned work, so…
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