Custom Bikes Of The Week: 23 February, 2020
A classic Triumph flat tracker from the race director of the Wheels & Waves festival, a Virago influenced by 90s Japanese import culture, and the latest oddity from Lazareth.
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Westlake Tagand Special: A Guzzi 850 T3 from Deus
You’ve probably heard the word ‘bitsa’ thrown around these parts if you’re a regular here. For the uninitiated, it’s a motorcycle that has ‘bits of everything.’ Bitsas are the mongrel dogs of the custom motorcycle world… and just like mongrels, some of them are hard to look at. But others are cross-bred in just the…
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Switch eSCRAMBLER: the best-looking electric bike yet?
Electric motorcycles still seem like a brave new world in some quarters, but the technology is maturing fast and the novelty is wearing off. Shanghai-based Kiwi expat Matthew Waddick has been building street-legal electric customs for years now, and knows this well. “Electric bikes are not new anymore,” he says. “You can’t wow people just…
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Euro style, down under: Ellaspede’s BMW R100R
In the thriving world of BMW R-series customization, there’s a strong design trend in Europe that hasn’t taken off in other countries yet. The core features are a floating single seat, chunky tires, small guards, lots of black, offset lights and super clean lines. Builds from the Amsterdam shop Ironwood are the perfect example. The…
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Tokyo Nights: Upgrading the classic Honda CB900F
Unless you can identify a motorcycle just by its engine, you’ll have a hard time pinning down the exact year and model…
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Before the doors opened: The 2020 One Motorcycle Show
The grassroots custom moto show is big business now. The big events pull in hundreds of display bikes and thousands of punters,…
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Ducati SS1000: Redesigning the SportClassic GT1000
Like any proper cult vehicle, the Ducati SportClassic was hugely under-appreciated when it was first released. That’s probably because it was ahead…
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Beach Cruiser: An Upcycled Suzuki GS650 from California
It’s not unusual for car guys to transition to motorcycle customization: after all, the skills required are similar. Johnny Nguyen proves that…
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Daily Driver: A KTM Duke II street tracker from Dubstyle
Twenty years ago, street-legal supermotos weren’t really ‘a thing.’ But in Europe, change was in the air—and the KTM Duke II was…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 9 February, 2020
The BMW that took home the Best In Show award at Verona’s Motor Bike Expo, plus a Kenny Roberts-inspired XS650 from Japan…
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