Got stuff" Sure you do. Bring it along on your 2018 Harley-Davidson Softail with the new Holdfast Two-Up luggage rack. H-D: CARRY EVERYTHING NEEDED ...
Michio Arai, son of company founder Hirotake, and Michio’s son Akihito (on bike), two of the three generations of Arais that have been making p ...
HJC i70 Full-Face Helmet, available in several solid colors and graphics. The older I get, the more I appreciate simplicity, whether it?s sticking ...
Rocket Bobs Cycle Works ...
The creator of this sleek Yamaha is 27-year-old Daan Borsje of Moto Adonis. Typical of the younger builders coming through, he?s based in Roosendaal? ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. When Confucius said ?all good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get,? he might not hav ...
When Matthew Roberts, Director of Motorcycle Operations, got wind of a cleaner-than-usual example, he snapped it up. ?The monster two-strokes of that ...
Love, like motorcycling, is a many splendoured thing. The buzz. The feelings of invincibility. The brisk winter rides while completely naked. W ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. Even if you’re not a basketball fan, everyone old enough to remember the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 will have ...
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 ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. If you tell a small child not to touch something, the chances are the very moment you turn your back they’ll ...
Take his Rickman Metisse desert racer, for example. It combined a Rickman-made Metisse MkIII frame with a Triumph TR6 power plant. At the time, McQue ...
You can tell a lot about a country by what motorcycle marque the police ride. The German Polizei obviously hit the autobahn on BMW?s. The Itali ...
Like many builds, the story begins with a Sunday motorcycle ride. ?We went to the westernmost point of the European mainland, Cabo da Roca,? the guys ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. The great American writer and 1949 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, William Faulkner once said of the past, ?Histo ...
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 ...
Yamaha’s MT range is a funny old thing. With a single outing in the noughties in its ?MT-01? guise, the segment seemed to be pretty m ...
Ludovic Lazareth builds some of the world?s most extreme custom bikes. You know the type: they appear on websites that wouldn?t normally feature moto ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. With the big manufacturers, corporates and TV shows dedicating large sums of money to the custom motorcycle scene it ...
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 ...
With the Isle of Man TT over for another year the wee little island in the Irish Sea returns to its quiet self once again, but for those new to ...
Velomacchi Speedway Few companies blend form and function as well as Oregon-based Velomacchi. Their $299 Speedway roll-top backpack is both highly te ...
Ed Turner is one of Europe?s most extreme custom workshops. Owner Karl Renoult has a very clear and unapologetic vision: he builds each bike with ?t ...
Words Pete Cagnacci The holy celebration of everything that is custom, otherwise known as Throttle Roll, is about to hit the streets again, and ...
When Fred was asked by Yamaha Motor Europe to build a bike, any bike, the SR400 was his top pick. And why is that, when acclaimed modern Yamahas such ...
Written by Nick D. Last week we lost one of the most renowned Heavyweight Champions of the World. He called himself ?The Greatest.? The whole w ...
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 ...
Despite Germany?s draconian TÜV regulations, Uwe’s W650 is delightfully pared-down. ?In Germany you are not allowed to do whatever you want w ...
There’s always room for improvement. And no one exploits that extra room like Brooklyn-based Stefano Venier?especially when it comes to Moto G ...
Words by Martin Hodgson. ...
Words by Martin Hodgson. There was a point in time when the bike before you could have been a Yamaha XS650, but this 1974 Honda CB750 had a des ...
Other than that, the regulations are wide open. There?s a bizarre mix of machines from BMW, Triumph, Ducati, Yamaha, Buell and Harley-Davidson?often ...
Kawasaki W1 650 by Mike LaFountain of Raccia Motorcycles, customized to echo the iconic Matchless G45. This machine took Mike seven years to complete ...