Photo galleries and profiles of the most exciting cafe racers, bobbers, scramblers, trackers and other custom motorcycles.
We’re starting and ending with two color-matched Ducatis this week; a Ducati Pantah restomod from Australia, and a Ducati 749S custom from France. Wedged between them are a wood-clad Yamaha XS650, and the wildest supercharged Honda CBR900 we’ve ever laid eyes on.
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The modern day Triumph Bonneville no doubt owes its popularity to its looks. It’s a handsome machine out the box, with a lot of room to tweak it further and make it look even better. But what separates a lightly modded Bonnie from a professional custom job? This 2011 Triumph Bonneville T100 holds the answer.…
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Speedway bikes are the very definition of purpose-built. They’re brakeless, single-gear machines with bizarre proportions, designed to do one thing—go around a dirt track at angles that defy physics. But, like all racing motorcycles, they’ve evolved over the years. Early speedway racers would simply modify existing ‘regular’ bikes to perform as best they could. It…
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They say opposites attract, and aside from a historic reliance on air-cooled engines, Porsche and Harley-Davidson couldn’t be more apples to oranges. Back in the 1990s, Porsche was the foremost name in German performance engineering, while Harley’s offerings had become decidedly stagnant since the mid 80s. The result of this unlikely partnership was the Harley-Davidson…
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It’s hard to deny the allure of a rally motorcycle. Every inch of it is built to perform, and every part on…
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Any fan of the evergreen Suzuki GSX-R has their favorite model. Some are drawn to the nostalgic appeal of the older ‘slabside’…
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When I was a kid, my skateboard took me everywhere. It was a chunky Variflex (that’s all I could get in our…
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Most guys can’t think beyond a box of chocolates or a bunch of flowers as a gift for their significant other. But…
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It’s become common practice for major OEMs to launch new bikes by showing off custom versions of them. And we’re here for…
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Elbert Hubbard said “If you don’t wish to be criticized, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” For Vitaly Selyukov, owner of Balamutti…
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“Fender and Firestone police, here I come,” Winston Yeh quips, as we discuss the latest custom motorcycle to roll out of the…
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If you’re a classic watercraft aficionado, this custom Harley-Davidson Sportster should feel familiar to you. That’s because it’s modeled after one of…
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We’ve featured some wild customs over the years, and truth be told, we’ve come to expect the unexpected. In the last year…
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Motorcycles have long been the cheap way to go fast, but in today’s world of excess and insane tech, the concept of…
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There’s no question that the Japanese custom scene is rife with creativity. Even so, there are some Japanese custom builders whose style…
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