High-end parts can wreak havoc on a custom bike build budget, so it helps to have a source for good second-hand stuff. For Pierre Dhers at Freeride Motos in Southern France, that source is Surplus Motos. Based just a few miles from the Freeride Motos workshop, Surplus Motos specializes in reconditioned motorcycle parts. They’ve been…
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Since he launched Blacktrack Motors, Sacha Lakic has had a singular focus. His goal is to design café racers that borrow inspiration from the past, but look to the future with modern lines, materials, and performance. Blacktrack’s debut bike was an impossibly sharp Honda CX500 café racer. But the brand quickly moved onto bigger and…
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Indian Motorcycle has just pulled the covers off what is possibly the spiciest version of the Indian FTR yet at EICMA. Based on the top-of-the-line FTR R Carbon, the 2024 Indian FTR x 100% R Carbon is a limited edition collaboration with the action sports brand, 100%. And it looks fresh as hell. If you…
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Watching thousands of people flood into London’s Tobacco Docks for the Bike Shed Show, it’s amazing to see what can grow from a mere love and admiration for custom motorcycles. The Bike Shed started as a custom motorcycle blog in 2011, but eventually grew into a restaurant, retail space and gear brand. It first opened…
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Unveiled this week: a custom Indian FTR, designed by Sideburn and Cheetah. Plus a Triumph Bonneville from Indonesia, a Triumph Bobber from…
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There’s no shortage of celebrities that own motorcycles, but that doesn’t make them real riders. Norman Reedus might be best known for…
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We never imagined that the adage “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” could apply to baggers… but here we are. To celebrate…
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Never perfect, always awesome. It’s a motto often used by Nicolai Sclater, the artist better known as Ornamental Conifer. And it sits…
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The Sons of Anarchy TV show may have ended eight years ago, but it forever changed how people see motorcycles and motorcyclists.…
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Bobbers are pure motorcycling. They’re what happens when you take everything you can off a bike and strip it to its basics.…
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SEVERAL OF US know of Mike Wolfe from his “American Pickers” TV show, where he travels the states looking for long-neglected treasures.…
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Of the 800,000 miles of thoroughfare winding across the islands of Japan, there’s only one five mile stretch where you can drive…
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