?15 Kawasaki W800 SE ? Schlachtwerk
We’re guessing you all know what a custom bike is, right" They’re the ones with all the wild and unique modifications. The bright colours a ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Roads We Ride - Commuting in Sydney
The Roads We Ride series continues this year with more insights into some of Sydney?s best-known riding roads and how to safely navigate them. This ti ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Yamaha MT-03 – Kingston Customs
Written by Marlon Slack.
Headed by racer and motorcycle builder Dirk Oehlerking, ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Type 10A? BMW R80 ? Auto Fabrica
Genres are something that the human mind seems to crave. Show our primitive brains something that isn?t easily classifiable, categorised or cat ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
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 of mach ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?78 Honda CB550 ? Monnom Customs
?That bike’s a classic!? It’s a phrase we hear all the time, and often it’s used far too flippantly for its own good. But if we were to u ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?DethGrip? Kawasaki Vulcan 650S – Icon 1000
Customising bikes is a gargantuan task at the best of times. And unless you’re a rich trust fund kid with zero family ties, no friends or soc ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
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Alta Motors Redshift ST street tracker concept
I?m in two minds about electric motorcycles. The instantaneous torque and low maintenance is appealing, for sure?but I also love the character and in ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?81 Yamaha XJ550 ? Thirteen and Company
Automotive engineering is full of ideas that must have seemed great at the time but in the cold, hard light of day can tend to look a little le ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Moto Guzzi ?Vanguard V8 Racer? ? Numbnut Motorcycles
There’s precious few motorcycles that manage to make it all the way to the top. And I’m not talking about the top of sales, races or popula ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
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?70 BMW R60/5 – RangerMoto
Written by Martin Hodgson
Motorcycles have played an important role in the life of war veterans since the very beginning of the custom culture ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Urban X? Kawasaki Ninja 650 – Smoked Garage
Written by Martin Hodgson.
When your website has a tab for ?Investor Relations? it’s safe to say you are playing in the big time, a one man o ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
On Sale Now: The 2017 Motorcycle Calendar
The world?s most prestigious motorcycle calendar is back. The 2017 edition of the famous Bike EXIF wall calendar showcases 13 incredible new customs, ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?74 Honda CB750 – Cognito Moto
Words by Martin Hodgson | Photography by Tahjee Wallace
For all the attention the craziest new builds receive, the ones displayed at bike shows ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Blue Is The Color: An ice-cool Yamaha XS650 bobber
Sensibility be damned: this bobber has no front brake, no rear suspension and a suicide shifter. But just look at it.
Like any self-respecting bobber ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Mad Mick?s Garage
Throttle Roll feature – Words and photos by Pete Cagnacci.
If you cut Mick, we do not doubt that he would bleed oil. Bikes, racing, wrenching ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Custom Bikes Of The Week: 29 January, 2017
A 500 horsepower drag bike with Chevrolet power, a Ducati-sanctioned custom Scrambler Sixty2, and a vintage-styled BMW R1200 GS built for an epic tri ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?The Blue Shark? Ducati Panigale R Cafe Racer – Ducati
Written by Martin Hodgson.
With the circus that is the World Superbike Championship wrapping up for the weekend at the Imola circuit, Ducati as ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
BMW K100RS Cafe Racer – Hageman Motorcycles
Written by Marlon Slack.
You don?t have know Hageman MC to recognise their work. Seen those Virago cafe racers" Greg Hageman helped create that ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Oddball: The 1936 Koehler-Escoffier Moto-Ball Special
It?s a restoration by Serge Bueno of Heroes Motorcycles in Los Angeles, a shop with a staggering inventory of desirable two-wheelers.
Serge has resu ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?The Beast? BMW R1100S Cafe Racer – Moto Adonis
Written by Marlon Slack.
Moto Adonis is a curiously named workshop based out of Roosendaal in the Netherlands.The post ?The Beast? BMW R1100S C ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Go Rental: A CCM street tracker for hire
Supermotards are more fun than you can shake a stick at. Especially when they’re infused with a hefty dose of flat-track style.
This CCM from South ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Rising? Yamaha XT600 – Ad Hoc Cafe Racers
Written by Martin Hodgson.
There are certain artists, designers and builders whose work is instantly recognisable in their field and often even ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Werk Of Art: WalzWerk’s BMW R80 cafe racer
We keep wondering why our inbox is flooded with classic BMWs. Now WalzWerk Racing have provided a clue: you can turn an airhead into just about anyth ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Hellion: An Off-The-Wall Yamaha WR500
Art runs One-Up Moto Garage in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He’s only in his mid-twenties, but he’s been wrenching since the age of seventeen?and even ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Side Project: Bryan Heidt’s Ducati 860 cafe racer
Somewhere round the back of every custom shop is an unloved bike that?s been sitting there for months, waiting for its moment in the limelight.
In t ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?#4.9? BMW R nineT ? Catrina Motosurf
Written by Martin Hodgson.
There is a symbiotic relationship with surfing and motorcycles that is hard to ignore, and it’s one that has exist ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
1976 Honda CBF550F by Recast Moto
Words by Ian Lee.
Ah those Northern European winters; bringer of sub zero temperatures, cabin fever, and now it seems, custom motorcycles. Comi ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Sake? Yamaha RD400 ? Lucky Custom
Written by Martin Hodgson.
If motorcycles have earned the reputation as ?widow-makers? then two motorcycles in particular can lay claim to bein ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Monster Tracker: Speedtractor?s Ducati M900
Just over a year ago, Speedtractor boss Matthew Roberts was tapped on the shoulder to become the head wrench for the Japanese outpost of a certain gl ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Darkster: K-Speed?s Custom Triumph Thruxton R
It took Triumph a while to update their modern classics, but by all accounts it was worth the wait. We’ve yet to read a bad review of Hinckley’s ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Yamaha XV750 – Peters Dog Cycles
Written by Martin Hodgson.
Even if you’re not a basketball fan, everyone old enough to remember the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 will have memo ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?MagmaMille? Moto Guzzi SP1000 ? Officine Rossopuro
In Italian they call it ?Monte Vesuvio?, but English speakers may be more familiar with its nome Inglese, ?Mount Vesuvius?. Responsible for the ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?82 Honda Ascot FT500 ? MotoRelic
Written by Martin Hodgson.
When you’re a one man bike building operation you have to be a master of all crafts and failure at none and that†... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Brute in a Suit: Yamaha XSR900 Review
The dust had hardly settled on the XSR700 launch when Yamaha started teasing their next release. It started with Roland Sands’ Faster Wasp?a brutal ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Used And Abused: Revival Cycles’ Buell Ulysses scrambl
The thought of a liquor brand commissioning a bike conjures up images of gaudy, logo-slathered choppers from the West Coast. But Revival Cycles had o ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Zandslee? Honda XL500
Words by Martin Hodgson.
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Dark Matter: A stellar Speed Triple 1050 from Ernes
The owner of this remarkable 2010-spec model bumped into the Erne?s crew five years ago in a bar. He wanted a café racer back then, but it took him u ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Are We Ready For A Suzuki Bandit Cafe Racer"
There are some motorcycles that lend themselves easily to cafe racer conversions?like the Hinckley Bonneville, or the Honda CB750. You?ll find a plet ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?78 Honda CX500 – BBCR Engineering
Written by Martin Hodgson.
Somewhere in Kobe, Japan, a man named Shoichiro Irimajiri is sitting quietly with a satisfied smile on his face and ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Auto Fabrica’s KZ400: A two-wheeled Extreme Makeover
You can judge a builder?s skills by the raw materials they work with. After all, it?s not too hard to make a Norton Commando look good. A Buell is an ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Hansamu? Yamaha XSR700 Tracker – Ad Hoc Cafe Racers
Well, well. Isn’t Yamaha’s XSR range doing it well for itself" It seems like we can’t go for a ride these days with seeing one, or one of ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Black Beauty: NCT’s wild custom BMW R100
There’s a time for building practical, sensible bikes?and there’s a time for hanging loose. Like when you’re working on a shop bike, with no cl ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Lac Rose? RnineT – BMW Motorrad
The Paris-Dakar Rally is one of the truly great motorsport events, known around the world the winning vehicles often go on to achieve legendary ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Custom Bikes (And Snowmobiles) Of The Week
Honda CM400 by Matteucci Garage You can tell at first glance that this Honda CM400, dubbed Alligator, is ready for anything. It?s small, dark and scr ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Turning the Honda CM400 Into An Urban Assault Machine
Motorcycle customizing is all about transformation: better looks, better functionality, or a combination of both. But we don’t often see a transfor ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Black Baron? BMW R100S – Relic Motorcycles
The Red Baron, a.k.a. Manfred von Richthofen, was a German fighter pilot with a reputation that seems to have well and truly outlived the man h ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Sublime? Kawasaki Ninja 650 ? Smoked Garage
Written by Martin Hodgson.
Tick, tick, tick… Boom! Your alarm goes off, it’s 5:30am, your eyes snap open scanning the room, immediately thr ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
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?70 Ducati 350 – The Gasbox
Written by Martin Hodgson.
Bike builders often become known for creating particular styles of motorcycles. Maybe they have an affinity with a p ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?09 KTM 450 ? Vitium Moto
Written by Martin Hodgson.
The small state of Querétaro in Northern Mexico has always been a place of revolution and creation having been the l ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Tangerine Dream: Roland Snel’s Yamaha TR1 cafe racer
Roland works for Yamaha in Holland. He?s not a not a professional mechanic, but he knows how to use a grinder. ?I?ve always modified my bikes to my o ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
BMW Motorrad Japan x Wedge G 310 R
If you want to build a custom based on a current-production BMW, the top choice right now is the R nineT. We’ve also seen builders extract stunning ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
New and Noted: Motorcycle Backpacks
Velomacchi Speedway Few companies blend form and function as well as Oregon-based Velomacchi. Their $299 Speedway roll-top backpack is both highly te ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Mind. Blown: Krugger’s S&S-Powered ‘Ladd
Winning the AMD World Championship of bike building takes skill, genius and commitment. And Fred ‘Krugger’ Bertrand has done it twice.
Judging by ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Yamaha ?Super7? XSR ? JvB-moto
Written by Martin Hodgson.
As part of the Yamaha’s incredibly successful Yard Built program, JvB-moto was given the honour of being the first ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?12 KTM 350 SX-F ? Engineered to Slide
Written by Martin Hodgson.
For a man known as ?Engineered to Slide?, Nigel Petrie certainly gets how to go seriously fast in a straight line. ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Tefy? BMW R90 Scrambler – Boxer Metal
Love, like motorcycling, is a many splendoured thing. The buzz. The feelings of invincibility. The brisk winter rides while completely naked. W ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Roman’s Bol d?Or? MV Agusta F3 Racer – Walt Sie
I had a dream last night in which I was a gun bike builder. I was living and working in a small, picturesque American town where it snowed in w ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
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The Enginethusiast: Anthony Scott’s Honda CB550
“After so many years overseas and countless deployments down range, it was civilian life that almost put an end to me. Then one day, a guy rode pas ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
A Pukka Scrambler: Federal Moto’s Honda XR650L
Is ‘scrambler‘ the most overused description in the custom scene vernacular" Probably. It’s been allocated to everything from street bikes with ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Brass Rajah? Royal Enfield 350 – Mid Life Cycles
Written by Martin Hodgson.
Some brands transcend their own industry and become part of a culture so linked that one simply goes hand in hand wi ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Klassiek: Wang Motorcycles’ take on the BMW G/S enduro
When it comes to scramblers, the original BMW R80 G/S is the real deal. Originally conceived by an engineer who had been fielding an R75/5 in the Int ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Shop Bike: DP Customs’ Hot-Rodded Ironhead Sportster
The client roster at DP Customs is slammed. So there?s precious little time to admire a finished project before it goes to its new home. And the Del ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Yamaha XJR 1300 ? Dave Zieglmeier
Written by Pete Cagnacci of Throttle Roll.
It took the sacrifice of a 30-year-old comic book collection, over 7,000 comics to be precise, for D ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Double Scoop: Down & Out?s Fat-Tired Ducati Scrambler
The fat tire look is not everyone’s cup of tea. But if that’s what butters your toast, Down & Out Café Racers are the guys to call.
The British s ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
The 80s are back: Luka Cimolini’s BMW R100 RS
The BMW R100 RS made waves when it first launched. Sports tourers were a new concept, and the RS topped the charts with its wind tunnel-tested fairin ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Moto Guzzi V9 ?Silver Knight? – OMT Garage
Written by Martin Hodgson.
For a custom motorcycle workshop, to be selected to compete in a bike build off on National Television with backing ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Tall Bobeus? BMW R1100GS – Moto Adonis
For most mere mortals the taller they are, the better life is. Tall people are statistically proven to be more likely to land jobs, attract a s ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
A Lesson in Sano: Heiwa?s Kawasaki W650
While most of us are trying to shake off the festive season’s indulgence, I’d wager that Kengo Kimura is already back in his workshop. The master ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Moto Guzzi MGR 1200 ? Radical Guzzi
Written by Martin Hodgson.
Pedigree and history. They are two buzz words that are often thrown around by marketing departments to sell a new mo ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Custom Bikes Of The Week: 2 October, 2016
A Ducati Scrambler that took 150 emails to get right, a Yamaha WR400F tracker inspired by an Eames chair, and a BMW dismantled and redesigned in CAD. ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Steampunk?d: Urban Motor’s Jawa Sprint Motorcycle
Glemseck 101 is just around the corner. Set in southern German town of Leonberg, it’s a two-wheeled celebration of gasoline and good taste.
It also ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Onyx Blade: Rough Crafts’ Razor-Sharp Yamaha MT-07
A few days ago Bunker Customs released a crisply-styled Yard Built XSR700, based on the ?classic? variant of the MT-07. And now we have ?Onyx Blade,? ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
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?MasterPeace? ?66 Triumph TR6 ? Heiwa Motorcycles
Written by Marlon Slack.
Kengo Kimura fronts up Heiwa Motorcycles, a workshop established in Hiroshima in 2005.The post ?MasterPeace? ?66 Trium ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?81 Yamaha XS650 ? Modern Motor Cycle Company
Written by Martin Hodgson.
In the space of less than a year in the late 1960s two Japanese heavyweights released motorcycles that would go on t ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
The big ?F? You?: Classified Moto?s Honda XR650L
Well, this Honda XR650L is for them. Consider it a huge balloon-tired middle finger to the crowd who think we exist to build bikes that will knock th ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Against The Grain: A Fabrique Nationale with Wood Trim
This is Sébastien Valliergues’ fourth build, and it’s one of the rarest bikes to ever grace these pages. You’re looking at an FN Type M70B?a 35 ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Mad Max? BMW R65 ? Delux Motorcycles
If you’ve ever visited outback Australia, you’ll realise just how a movie like Mad Max could come about. With nature’s brutal extremes an ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Black Bulldog? Triumph Bonneville ? K-Speed Customs
Written by Martin Hodgson.
There are literally millions of two-wheeled machines on the streets of Thailand, with the market dominated by a huge ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Vintage Meets Custom: BMW Remakes The Iconic R5
Eighty years ago, BMW revealed the groundbreaking R5?a machine that influenced motorcycle design right up to the 1950s, and still casts a spell over ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Town and Country: A Honda CB350 Built In The Catskills
It’s said that your surroundings influence your creative output. For Nick Cologero, those surroundings are enviable: the tiny hamlet of Olivebridge ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Take That: Dutchman Turns A Dirt Bike Into A Board Tracker
For this project he sourced an early 80s Yamaha XT550 enduro bike, removed the engine, and threw just about everything else in the bin.
The frame you ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Roads We Ride - The Oxley Highway
Veteran motorcycle tourer Alex Donnelly and his wife Ann have traveled throughout Australia on two wheels. They consider the Oxley Highway in New Sout ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
1939 Kurogane Type 95
Written by Martin Hodgson.
For many decades it was a mythical creature, believed destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse that shocked the world and a ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?Mishka? Yamaha XS650 ? White Collar Bikes
Written by Martin Hodgson.
Karma, the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence viewed as deciding their fate in fut ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?One.Sixteen? BMW R nineT – Chandlers Bikes
Black is white. Dogs are cats. Bike dealer are customisers. If there was ever a gauge of just how far the custom bike scene has come on its dec ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Gold Standard: Rawhide?s CB750 is 24-Carat Perfection
The gold paintwork may be impressive, but a lot more went into the Golden Goose than a few liters of metal flake.
Rather than completely changing Ho ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
?68 Triumph T100 – Heroes Motorcycles
Written by Ian Lee.
If I’ve learnt anything from my time here at Pipeburn, it’s that a custom bike does not need to be in your face to get ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Cognito Moto’s XS650 is the Perfect Modern Classic
We’ve spotted a rising trend over the last couple of years that we can get behind: classic bikes with modern tech upgrades. And if we were working ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Tattoo You: Schlachtwerk?s heavily inked Kawasaki W650
We’ve found the recipe for moto-goodness: take one Kawasaki W650, roll it through Tom Thöring’s workshop, and then wheel it in front of Marc Hols ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Kawasaki W650 ? Hombrese Bikes
Written by Martin Hodgson.
Two years before Triumph relaunched the ?new? Bonneville range in 2001, Kawasaki had delivered their W650 to the mar ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Unlikely Candidate: MAD Industries x Lossa Honda CB500F
The ultimate show for petrolheads in the USA is SEMA. Held every year in the neon wonderland of Las Vegas, it draws tens of thousands of punters?most ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Custom Bikes Of The Week: 25 September, 2016
The ultimate Honda CB550 cafe racer, a Suzuki Savage with Nissan Leaf power, and a gorgeous BMW R100 GS sidecar rig. Meet the bikes that revved our e ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Sleek: Cafe Racer Dreams revamps the Honda Transalp
The Spanish shop Cafe Racer Dreams has now built almost a hundred customs, with no sign of slowing down. It?s a remarkable track record in our very f ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
Yamaha XT660 ?Tucano? ? Old Empire Motorcycles
Written by Martin Hodgson
Running a custom bike shop can be a bit like being a real estate agent, no not being the brunt of everyone’s jokes ... 01-01-1970 01:00 |
