Soichiro’s finest: the Honda RC30
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 6 January, 2019
Since this is our first weekly round up of the year, we’re taking liberties. A couple of the bikes below popped up…
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Bike EXIF joins The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride
Yes, it’s almost time: the world’s biggest motorcycling event is just around the corner! Registrations for the 2018 Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride are…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 20 May, 2018
A Triumph Trident that ran in the 1972 Bol d’Or, a Moto Guzzi Strada dripping with vintage charm, and a chiropractor-approved version…
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Behind Closed Doors: BMW’s hidden supercharged WR 750
The BMW Museum is the first port of call for any petrolhead visiting Munich. But there’s an even more extraordinary collection of…
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Africa Shox: A hard-charging R80G/S from Cape Town
On Saturday, the Dakar Rally kicks off in Lima, Peru. It’s the 40th edition of the notorious race, and a lot has…
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Art Deco Masterpiece: A Majestic resurfaces in L.A.
Motorcycle styling has always been conservative rather than revolutionary. Even the most famous machines from history fit into a very obvious lineage…
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Old Timer: This Swiss BMW Restomod is just Perfekt
It’s tough to get a restomod right. An authentic nuts-and-bolts restoration is more work, but at least you have a blueprint to…
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Puppy Love: A Ducati Cucciolo from Analog Motorcycles
These days, we associate Ducati with tire-shredding 200 horsepower superbikes and the all-conquering, impossibly hip Scrambler. But in the years after WW2,…
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As New: Reviving a Ducati Mike Hailwood Replica
There are purists who baulk at the thought of changing even one bolt on a classic motorcycle—and then there’s folks like us.…
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Anglo-Saxon: A Norton Replica from Germany
This time last year, I was driving around Munich with BMW Motorrad’s Ola Stenegärd, when he turned to me and said he…
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International Rescue: Rebuilding A 1933 Motoconfort
What’s the best part about the exploding interest in older bikes? For us, it’s not just about the finished product and the…
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This Bimota HB1 replica is even better than the real thing
Bimota: It’s one of the most evocative names in motorcycling. Like most Italian manufacturers, the company has been through the full cycle…
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Salvage Job: Maria Motorcycles rescues a BMW R100 RS
Most custom motorcycles start out stock—blank canvases for builders to splash their ideas onto. And if they’re old, a little restoration work…
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Not So Mellow Yellow: North East’s XT500 resto-mod
The Yamaha XT500 is widely considered as the Grand-pappy of the modern dual-sport. This late 70s enduro marked the point when scramblers…
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