The new black midrise handlebar and blacked-out powertrain on the R 18 Roctane definitely make it stand out from its siblings. In my early days wi ...
The BMW Museum in Munich, Germany, opened its 100 Years of BMW Motorrad exhibit on May 12 in celebration of the company’s centennial. More than ...
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 ...
Being visible, which includes wearing bright apparel and a light-colored helmet, is an important part of motorcycle safety while commuting. (Photos b ...
The turnaround in the reputation of the Honda CX500 is quite remarkable. Despite its unsavory nicknames, the water-cooled V-twin is now in serious de ...
The custom bike scene is full of builders pumping out café racers, trackers, bobbers, scramblers and just about anything imaginable. Yet Chri ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. There is more than one way to skin a cat and for Scott Halbleib of H Garage he took a different path with this Honda ...
A 2014-spec Continental GT duly rolled up to Tony?s workshop. There were no constraints on the build, except time: it had to be finished within six w ...
When long time upholsterer for DP Customs, Uniqueaz.com, dropped by the workshop for a cold beer and a chat with owners, Justin and Jarrod Del ...
It was not the fastest build, because he was also helping me build GT-Moto, and working on customers? bikes. So I never really saw what it was going ...
Words by Ian Lee. Ah those Northern European winters; bringer of sub zero temperatures, cabin fever, and now it seems, custom motorcycles. Comi ...
Last year was a busy year for Dustin from Kott Motorcycles in LA. He built a shed load of bikes ? around 12 to be exact. We thought we would ...
Of course, some people just don?t know where to stop. Like the folks at MAD Industries of Costa Mesa, California. Despite their main business being c ...
There’s no two ways about it; Japanese custom bikes are just so damn cool. Japanese builders seem to have an endless ability to jam some ...
In an effort to break away from his past, Pepo has begun working on different platforms. And he?s proved that his ability stretches well beyond the c ...
Spidi Tank Jacket If you live in the northern hemisphere, chances are it?s still a little cold for riding. But Spidi has you covered with its latest ...
Federal Moto?s Shaun Brandt is one of the rising stars of the custom scene, and he?s wowed us with several of his builds already. But when he wanted ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. The small state of Querétaro in Northern Mexico has always been a place of revolution and creation having been the ...
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 ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. Moto Adonis head honcho Daan Borsje will tell you that his goal is not just to resurrect near dead motorcycles but t ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. The theory of Six Degrees of Separation supposes that everyone is six or fewer steps away from any other person in t ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. Never fear, Hageman is here! Needing no introduction, Greg Hageman AKA ?Doc’s Chops? of Hageman Motorcycles i ...
For 2016, the Triumph Bonneville has finally shed its air-cooled status and embraced a raft of new technologies that brings the engine of the r ...
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 ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. From the outside looking in the custom motorcycle culture must appear to be quite confusing for those who don� ...
When you’ve been in the custom bike game as long as we have, you get pretty darn quick at spotting bikes that make the grade. Like some ...
Written by Martin Hodgson. Bike builders often become known for creating particular styles of motorcycles. Maybe they have an affinity with a ...
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 ...
The XS 400 often lurks in the shadows of its more popular RD 400 brother, but it?s a good candidate for a compact custom build. Although it makes les ...
Ducati Scrambler by Vibrazioni Art Design The first motorcycle to capture my imagination as kid was the Delta Mk IV Megafighter from the admittedly a ...
Every once in a while?maybe twice a year?we get to see a build that doesn?t just break the mold, but smashes it to smithereens. This is one such bike ...
The dust had hardly settled on the XSR700 launch when Yamaha started teasing their next release. It started with Roland Sands’ Faster Wasp?a b ...
Let?s face it: custom motorcycles are eye candy. And the eye candy doesn?t get much better than this new build from Fuller Moto, which has sent our p ...