This 1984 Honda V30 Magna, originally a VF500C cruiser, has undergone a transformation into a street tracker style. It has...
This Triumph motorcycle has undergone a cafe racer-style transformation, skillfully executed by Jeremy Cupp of LC Fabrications in Grottoes, Virginia....
The FXRX-Wedge is a custom motorcycle built in 2010 by Dougz Custom Paint & Fabrication in collaboration with S&S Cycle and Rolling Thunder Manufacturing, aimed to create a ‘custom’ motorcycle that could be titled and insured within a reasonable budget by economic standards at that time. The project involved lengthening...
This Triton cafe racer, built over a two-year period and finalized in 2009, showcases a fusion of classic components. Its...
The BMW K1100LT motorcycle, despite being heavy and expensive, had a powerful engine and high-quality components, making it a popular...
This custom motorcycle was created by Walt Siegl Motorcycles in Harrisville, New Hampshire using the chassis and mechanical components of an MV Agusta Brutale 800 and is one of ten such examples produced. Constructed with a carbon fiber half-faring, fuel tank, front fender, and cafe-style tail section reinforced with Kevlar,...
“It all started with a visit to the BMW Motorrad development team in Germany,” admits BMW Motorrad’s latest muse in...
You really can’t call your company Combat Motors and not have some inspiration from militaries past and present. Therefore, on...
Fame is a real litmus test. Think of it as a crucible that melts down a person to their base elements. Those that aren’t grounded and who have got to where they are through pretence and constructs are soon revealed as such thanks to the light and heat of all...
In this video from TFLbike, we get to explore a 2006 Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200 custom that has been through various transformations...
In TFLbike’s newest video, we get to checkout a very cool-looking 1982 Yamaha Virago XV920 custom that now stands as...
Got a hard case of the Hump Day blues? The Grind Hard Plumbing Company has got your back with a weird and wacky chopper build that they’ve started. The starter ingredients? A pair of 46″ Micky Thompson Mudding tires and a KTM 1190 Adventure bike engine. … Yup, this is...
Honda is Seeing Double I don’t know what it is about Honda engines (for reference, please scoot over and take...
In a project the owner can only call “the most ridiculous, obscene, and incredibly complicated thing I’ve ever built,” a...
When we feature bikes in the ‘Criminal Customs’ category, we’re typically looking for monstrous builds that showcase impressive specs…or, at the very least, break some kind of law of physics in the name of effort. You know, something like the Dodge Tomahawk we popped into our supercar-inspired bike list, that...
CBR1000F Blessed With Honda Odyssey Engine Calls SOS Back in December, the funkiest thing I’d seen in relation to custom...
Image by Machines That Dream Back in the Noughties, when cafe racers were all the rage and the global custom...
If you’re looking for a sleek superbike that pays homage to the retro cafe racer scene without dipping too many fingers in the bubble aesthetic, we’ve found a fleet of builds that will have you biting your fist and reaching for your Bell Bullitt. The DeBolex dB25 is a monster...
You know when you are having a go at an apple and working your way to the core, and keep...
What do you get when you combine a titanium motorcycle frame with a prototype BMW boxer engine? A minimalist’s wet dream...
“Tukka Yoot’s Riddim” has merged with Málaga talent for a vibrant bike build inspired by a jazz-rap group called US3 – a fantastic title that fused legends like Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk and Donald Byrd with modern artists such as Mike Smith and Dennis Rollins. When LDK was approached with...
A bloke by the name of David Gonzalez has gone and tweaked a Buell bike in honor of his English...
When you hop over a border (or three) and decide to visit the urban haunts of Canada’s metropolitan meccas, you’ll...
A Vietnamese motorcycle company has gone and made a beauty of an electric build, merging bold lines with a minimalistic aesthetic that looks like a cleaner, simpler version of the LEGO® Technic™ set Yamaha collaborated on for their MT-10 SP. If you haven’t heard of NUEN, they’ve got a hefty...
The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride (DGR) has come and gone for another year of raising funds in support of men’s health...
What happens when you stuff a 618 cc L-twin engine into a hardtail built entirely of custom, one-off parts? An...
2003 Never Looked So Good Every time we smack into a top-shelf custom build, we’re impressed at how frequently minimalism plays a role in the final project. Take this badass 2003 Ducati Monster SR4, for instance. Labeled by HiConsumption as ‘proof that [Ducati] can get more badass,’ the build itself...
It’s the end of Q4 2021. You’re at the store, picking out charcuterie boards and beers for the evening festivities,...
When Lithuanian bike shop Tommy & Sons took on this Harley-Davidson Road Glide, the goal wasn’t just to make it...
When a bloke at Onehandmade decided to take on an iconic 1979 Ducati MH900e, there was so much to balance. First off, the MH900e is a hefty piece of Team Red history. With the bike being revealed as Pierre Terblanche’s revolutionary homage to Mike Hailwood’s successes at the Isle of...
When we covered what Bandit9 Motorcycles was up to back in August, founder Daryl Villanueva had just given us a...
I love a good build that fights stereotypical norms – and Žiga Petek’s work on this R65 is a key...
MB (Martin Becker) Cycles has done it again – and this time, they’ve given us a gorgeously skeletal hardtail fit for a true bobber-lover. The report from AutoEvolution states that the donor for this particular project was “a former Glemseck 101 race bike, sporting a hardtail framework and a 1996...
Rolling from the colorful theme park and garden scapes of Wavre, Belgium, comes a dark silhouette designed to compete against...
A European custom shop has just done what they do best on a Harley-Davidson Street Bobber – and the combo...
Revenge of the ‘Carbon’ators German bike shop Rod Squad has taken a Harley muscle machine and decked the thing out in carbon…plus a couple other nifty features. The report from AutoEvolution states that many of this bike’s parts came from other shops such as “Roland Sands (riser, milled to fit...
I love riding small bikes fast. Maybe it’s the ease with which you can slap through the gearbox on a...
When the good people at Tony Prust’s Analog Motorcycles decided to take on this monochromatic build, we were excited. As...
Lord Drake Kustoms’ slicked-back aesthetic has just rolled out on some custom RSD wheel work for a build called the Sportster Bobber RSD – a bit of eye candy whose genres are literally in the name, and the influence shows. For those of you not familiar with this custom shop,...
When Francisco Alí Manén of Lord Drake Kustoms (LDK) sent us this beauty in a press release just before the...