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Rev’it Discovery Outdry Boots | Gear Review

Rev’It Discovery Outdry boots. Adventure touring boots have a serious job to do. In addition to keeping your feet dry and protected from rocks ...

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Modern Klassiker: A Bmw R60/5 Ready For Another 50 Years

Motorcycles have come a long way in the last half century, but for some folks, the allure of old machines is too hard to resist. The owner of this ea ...

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Isle Of Man Tt Rules? For Dummies.

Put your hand up if you?ve been to the Isle of Man TT. Now put it down, you look like a tit. If you?ve been, you?ll probably have a decent idea of ...

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Not Your Usual Rental: A custom Street Triple for hire

Think of a rental bike in South Africa, and a BMW R 1200 GS probably springs to mind. Or, for true overlanders, a bulletproof Japanese 650. But we?ll ...

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Bug-Eyed: Ton-Up’s Quirky Le Mans 1000 Oozes Style

On the list of Italian classics we’d love to own, the Moto Guzzi Le Mans ranks high. We’ll even forgive the questionable mid-80s plasti ...

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Red Rooster: Playing Chicken with the Kawasaki Kz1000

?The farmer was a home-brew winemaker,? says Rok, ?and it looked like some of that fermentation had moved over to the bike.? ?It was fixed with some ...

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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 ...

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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 F ...

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Tougher Than The Rest: Down & Out?s Intimidating T100

The stance is belligerent, helped by the chunky Continental Twinduro TKC80 rubber?one of the few dual sport tires that perform well on pavement. Th ...

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Double Vision: Customizing The BMW K100 Two Ways

?I thought it had great potential,? he says, ?but the rear part of the frame just didn?t work for me. Stripped down, the K looks like a Hyena. I don? ...

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Café Canadiano: Re-Engineering the Ducati 350 Sebring

But Kevin?s now downsizing to smaller bikes, and for good reason too. ?My shop is in the basement, and I have to carry the bikes up and down the stai ...

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?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 t ...

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Super Ten: Onehandmade’s Perfect Thruxton 900

Triumph’s new Thruxton is about to hit the showrooms, but the outgoing model has still got plenty left in the tank. Especially when it’ ...

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Honda CB750 & BMW R100 – Adam’s Custom Shop

Written by Martin Hodgson. To say that Adam Nestor got out of the blocks in his bike building career like Usain Bolt going for Olympic Gold is ...

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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 tra ...

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Review: Triumph Bonneville Street Twin

Tradition, it would seem, is a double-edged sword. While some Japanese bike brands would salivate at the thought of having a model in their lin ...

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Aircraft designer builds a Ural for his dog and surfboard

There?s little point in hot-rodding a Ural for speed, and the aesthetics are on-point from the start. But Queensland man Peter Adams has built a Ural ...

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?80 BMW R80 ? Avro Customs

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is one of the most successful automotive titles ever written, having sold more than five million copi ...

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Peel Out: MOD Moto’s Very Orange Ducati 750SS

Johan was dead set on a traditional cafe racer vibe, but the MOD crew had other ideas. ?We sort of persuaded him to go a bit more racer than café,? ...

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The ?Ducky? Harley Ironhead – Yuri Shif Customs

Written by Martin Hodgson. Every industry has its virtuosos, those that take a skill performed by many and add a level of genius and artistic f ...

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Review: Triumph Bonneville T120 and Thruxton R

Since the wraps came off the new Triumph Bonneville range in October, we?ve had to plenty of time to digest the upgrades. But it?s only now that we c ...

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?38 ??? ?-750

It’s Friday. So what better way to end the week than a stroll (or maybe a brisk ride) down memory lane with our favourite Russian Bike M ...

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Don?t Fight It, Feel It: Auto Fabrica Embraces The CX500

When faced with a Honda CX500 in the shop, the first thing most builders do is ?fix? the frame. It looks awkward and droopy, and the usual solution i ...

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?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 fa ...