When a bike (or two) is so good, maybe Bold New Graphics are all it really needs. Begin press release: The post ...
IOM TT racing comes with some inherent risks, and we all know what they are. Unfortunately, those ?inherent? risks are one of the things that make ...
Triumph is charging into the 2024 and 2025 Supermotocross and MXGP seasons in full force, signing two popular and experienced pilots as test riders fo ...
I recently had the opportunity to throw a leg over a 1996 Yamaha TW200. Or was It a 2008" Or a 1988" Who cares, they?re all the same bike. For 35 yea ...
His name is Mark Hawwa, the larger-than-life character behind the global phenomenon that is The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, and its cousin, ...
In 1978, the legendary Pops Yoshimura switched from Kawasaki to the mighty Suzuki GS and won everything from the great race at Daytona, to the worldâ ...
If there is a brand and model of motorcycle that has been produced in the last fifty years, then there is a good chance one has been customised and fe ...
So you want to be a champion custom bike builder" It’s a dream many aspire to, and who can blame them" But how many truly understand the incred ...
For decades, BMW Motorrad was a notoriously insular brand, but the 21st-century motorcycle industry is a different beast, and input from around the wo ...
As a manufacturer, they currently lead the Moto3 World Championship, compete in Moto2, have flown their flag at the Isle of Man TT, and off-road they ...
It’s been twenty years since the cafe racer revival took off, and it shows no sign of slowing down. However, that doesn’t mean things ha ...
One of the great achievements in any custom motorcycle builder’s career is to be invited to showcase their wares at a major show. Not only is i ...
We’re a little bit like kids on Christmas morning around here when an email arrives in our inbox from the lads at Germany’s Diamond Atel ...
The world is a melting pot, and the motorcycle scene has always benefited from that simple fact. A South African designed the most beautiful Italian m ...
It is one of the most interesting and exciting periods in all of motorcycling and will go down as one of the greatest successes in business history. W ...
In the world of motorsport, without a doubt, the great contribution of the United States is flat track racing, that glorious slideways action on the d ...
It has become a bit of a trend for guys who own high-end sports cars to have a motorcycle to match their collection. However, plenty of these people n ...
Turning on the nightly news can be a depressing exercise, but here we always aim to deliver some cheer. Not only is this one hell of a bike, but it al ...
For many around the globe, having a custom motorcycle workshop and building magnificent machines is the ultimate fantasy. And back in 2009, we first f ...
Finding out you can’t believe everything you see on TV was a bigger blow to my young mind than discovering the truth about those charlatans, Sa ...
From the epic adventures of Lawrence of Arabia to the heyday of the Paris-Dakar, those iconic periods in motorcycle history not only live on in memori ...
Cars, motorcycles, even fishing gear—add three little letters and instantly the interest goes up along with the price. JDM, or Japanese Domesti ...
Let’s address the elephant in the room: two Green BMW R series motorcycles in as many days. Normally, we wouldn’t commit such a sin, but ...
In the last decade or so, two classic automobiles have come to define a deep desire within the enthusiast community. Each represents a time when vehic ...
Some motorcycles immediately suggest a wealth of customisation possibilities. I have to admit, I never saw that potential in the Yamaha Virago/XV, but ...
The last ten years have seen a practically invasive swarm of modern retro motorcycles, and there is no doubt they’ve been very good and bloody ...
We’re only a few months away from the big European motorcycle shows, which means a host of brand-new bikes will be on display for the first tim ...
It was love at first sight for us at Pipeburn HQ, as our initial exposure to the Indonesian custom bike scene grew into an ongoing fascination. Kustom ...
It’s home to super yachts and supercars, over-tanned and tattooed tourists, and some of the most eccentric expats you’ll ever come acros ...
Typhoon Shanshan has made landfall in Japan and has tragically claimed several lives, and as it approached the country 24 hours ago, most people were ...
When Daryl Villanueva burst onto the custom motorcycle scene some fifteen years ago, some saw his designs as too avant-garde for the time. But rather ...
Shawnee, Oklahoma is a long way from London, England, but for two men at the top of their respective fields, their paths led them to LA, where they sh ...
Ah, the ’90s—the music was great, there was no such thing as a reality TV star or an influencer, and the internet had arrived to place a ...
He’s built more than a thousand individual custom bikes, has a signature range of motorcycles that wear his name and has clients who call Holly ...
The BMW R nineT has been one of the most successful bikes the Bavarian brand has ever released. In the last ten years it’s sold over 106,000 ex ...
If you ever have the good fortune of coming into a large inheritance or happen to win a substantial amount of money on the lottery, then we suggest yo ...
A third of all cinema-goers visit the website Rotten Tomatoes before making their pick about which movie they’re going to watch. But it’ ...
It’s as close to a universal truth as you’ll hear in the motorcycle world: most bikers learnt to ride on a little dirt bike. I can� ...
The Harley-Davidson Sportster served as the American working man’s motorcycle for generations and became the Milwaukee marque’s most pop ...
Walk into the design area of any modern motorcycle manufacturer and you’ll see banks of high-powered computers, allowing the staff to utilise t ...
The original Ducati 750SS was a smash hit for the Italian marque, and the follow-up was even better, with the 900 SuperSport cementing the companyâ� ...
The marketing spiel reads: unique, innovative, irregular, a departure from the status quo. I would be more inclined to agree with these attributes in ...
Certain motorcycles truly stand out as having captured the zeitgeist of their heyday, and an even smaller few survive the toll of time and never fade ...
There are thousands of brilliant books and documentaries that detail the history of motorcycles and their design. But if you truly want to understand ...
When is a motorcycle worth as much as a modern house" When that machine is arguably one of the most important two-wheeled vehicles ever created and th ...
Triumph’s range of ‘Modern Classic’ motorcycles has not only proven to be a huge sales success but also a versatile platform for b ...
When you think of motorcycles that stand the test of time and models that achieve a long production run, one thing is clear; don’t mess with a ...
In the UK, it’s known as Motorsport Valley, a small area home to Silverstone Circuit and the likes of Formula 1 powerhouses Red Bull Racing and ...
It’s been a year since the big Bavarian gave us our first look at the bike which would replace their super successful BMW R nineT. And from the ...
Everything old is new again, and just like the mid-’80s when adventure touring motorcycles were all the rage, the same can be said for the curr ...
Fewer badge names in the motorcycle world carry as much weight as that of the Bonneville; named after the great salt flats, a legend of the Triumph li ...
It’s the question we get asked the most and remains the hardest of all to answer. How much does that bike cost" While we can extract even the m ...
It is one of the most well-known silhouettes in all of motorcycle history, a race replica and a tribute to a legend that helped to save a giant of the ...
A hundred years, it’s a hell of a milestone, and this year Warr’s Harley-Davidson of Kings Road, London, celebrate its Obsidian Jubilee. ...
If you look around at a custom motorcycle gathering these days, the truth is, that only one major thing has changed since the ’60s. The bikes, ...
The arrival of the European summer spells a host of new motorcycles each year, as manufacturers seek to cash in on our Northern neighbours looking to ...
Last year, on the tenth anniversary of the birth of the BMW R nineT, the Bavarian company announced its successor, the R12, which will see the origina ...
The humble Minibike has been a mainstay of the motorcycle industry for the past sixty years, providing pocket-sized fun to all creatures great and sma ...
In 1998 the motorcycle world was slapped upside the head, the competition made to look second-rate, and magazine covers awash with a single silhouette ...
If you buy a new car or motorcycle from a reputable brand, it serves you well and proves to be reliable, it’s a good bet when it’s time ...
A motorcycle is simply a powdered two-wheeled vehicle, the rest is purely up to your imagination. There are, however, plenty of people who will tell y ...
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The year is 1982 and the most expensive production line produced motorcycle you can buy is a top-spec BMW R100. And they weren’t just a little ...
There seems to be less and less events on the motorcycle calendar these days, but an event that has persevered and grown in recent years is the Conond ...
In the modern era, there is arguably no motorcycle more beautiful than the Ducati 916, closely followed by its cousin the MV Agusta F4 and its brother ...
Our coverage of this year’s Bike Shed Moto Show drew an enormous and enthusiastic response, with those having attended confirming what a great ...
The 1960s is when popular music and the automobile really hit full stride, and Rock ‘n Roll and the Muscle car were truly firing on all cylinder ...
You don’t have to be a seasoned veteran of the custom motorcycle scene to know that the BMW R airheads have been the donor bike of choice for q ...
There is and always has been a pinnacle of not only motorsport, but the entire automotive industry, and it is without a doubt, Formula 1. So, when we ...
It’s Europe’s biggest and best independent custom motorcycle event and once again The Bike Shed Moto Show in London has shown why itâ� ...
If you flick through your local classifieds or scroll through eBay, you will surely notice the price of classic bikes is getting out of hand. And itâ ...
In the UK it is nothing short of a cultural phenomenon, and one of the nation’s biggest exports since The Beatles, but we never thought we†...
It was business as usual at yesterday’s 2024 Emilia Romagna F1 Grand Prix, as Max Verstappen took yet another win, but if you’d been at ...
t remains a curious case study in the world of two-wheels, that unlike the car market, the strongest players in the electric motorcycle segment are sm ...
He might not quite have the dance moves, but the pressure on Roland Sands when he releases a new custom bike is about as intense as it is for Beyonce ...
When you’re a hobbyist of any kind, there is always a professional to turn to should you get stuck. But when you are that professional and even ...
Actor, racer and successful influencer, Thailand’s ‘Beam’ Saranyu Prachakit, lives a fast and furious lifestyle that keeps him on ...
By the early ’90s the Bond film franchise had started to go a little stale, so to put the lead back into James’s PPK pistol, a new main ...
He’s just opened another store to sell his custom motorcycles and the brilliant parts his company offers to literally build your dreams. But th ...
In the world of four-wheels, the Grand Tourer (GT) has a rich tradition of giving the well-heeled a stunning way to eat up a long journey both in styl ...
A decade after Honda had revolutionised the motorcycle industry with the introduction of their four-cylinder CB750, they had done just about all they ...
While they lasted, internet forums were both a wealth of knowledge and also home to many resident keyboard warriors, so as blogs took over, you could ...
As one of man’s favourite modes of transport for more than a century, a ludicrous number of motorcycles have been produced over the years, in n ...
When you think of the bobber style of custom motorcycle, performance is usually not front of mind, with minimalist styling generally being front and c ...
Last weekend, if you could have been anywhere on earth, then Austin, Texas was the place to be. Ok, maybe it’s just because we are motorcycle m ...
Grottoes, Virginia, is a small town in the Shenandoah Valley of the Appalachian Mountains, and although it’s less than 200 miles from Washingto ...
When we received an invite to the Australian launch of the new Royal Enfield Himalayan 450 in the Victorian High Country, we thought we’d send ...
Three years ago, eagle-eyed automotive experts noticed an important application filed by Indian Motorcycle for the use of the title ‘101 Scoutâ ...
The vast bulk of custom motorcycles we feature on these pages are carefully conceived, meticulously designed and then executed with surgeon-like accur ...
The phrase, ‘It was a simpler time’ is really only one you can use in hindsight and yet, in creating our future it is so often the past t ...
For millions of people around the world, a motorcycle is a form of transport, nothing more. Then there are those of us who have a passion for all thin ...
When you look at your social feed or turn on the idiot box, there’s no denying we are divided as a human race. But there’s one event tha ...
The story of Royal Enfield and the nation of India is one of the most storied in all of motorcycle history. Now a company owned and operated out of Ch ...
If any single human being can lay claim to being the living Godfather of the custom motorcycle scene, it is the Japanese-born, LA living, Shinya Kimur ...
