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Classic Motorcycles

News and exclusive photos of the world’s best classic and vintage motorcycles. Essential browsing for enthusiasts and collectors, customizers and restorers, and petrolheads who love the looks and sound of older machinery.

Evocative articles and images of the most desirable motorcycles ever made, from old British iron to vintage Harleys to 1970s Japanese superbikes.

Bimota HB1 replica by Rob Phillips of Husky Restorations

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: A BMW R100 RS rescued by Maria Motorcycles

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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Yamaha XT500 restored by North East Custom

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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Oldtimer: Sven Wedemeyer's lustworthy Moto Guzzi V7

Oldtimer: Sven Wedemeyer’s lustworthy Moto Guzzi V7

Sven Wedemeyer is one of Bike EXIF’s best-kept secrets. The Berlin-based photographer is deadly behind a lens, and he’s got impeccable taste…

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The Koehler-Escoffier Moto-Ball Special—designed for the sport of motorcycle polo in the 1930s.

Oddball: The 1936 Koehler-Escoffier Moto-Ball Special

One of the weirdest sports the world has ever seen is Moto-Ball: It’s like polo, but with motorcycles instead of horses. It…

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Against The Grain: A Vintage Fabrique Nationale with Wood Trim

Against The Grain: A Fabrique Nationale with Wood Trim

On the Atlantic coast of France, just 25km shy of the Spanish border, lies the city of Biarritz. We know it as…

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Café Canadiano: Re-Engineering the Ducati 350 Sebring

Café Canadiano: Re-Engineering the Ducati 350 Sebring

Kevin Brown has been riding for over 50 years and owns nine bikes. The structural engineer from Canada is a petrolhead of…

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Widow Jane: A custom Vincent Rapide from Keino Cycles

Vincent is one of the most hallowed names in motorcycling. The original company only operated for 27 years, but that short time…

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Ride Tastefully: Union Motorcycle's Ducati Monza 250.

Ride Tastefully: Union Motorcycle’s Ducati Monza

Union Motorcycle Classics is the kind of shop we love to hear about. It’s based in a 100-year-old barn in the 19th…

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3 Wheel Motorcycle: this remarkable Moto Guzzi has full-time 3WD and a six-speed transmission, but was built in the 1960s.

Climb Every Mountain: Guzzi’s 3 Wheel Motorcycle

The most badass 3 wheel motorcycle is not a Can-Am Spyder or Polaris Slingshot. It’s this incredible go-anywhere Moto Guzzi built in…

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Better Than A Barn Find: Norton Dominator restored by The Gasbox

From rust to gold: The Gasbox Norton Dominator

We love a good barn find story, but stories of wrecks transformed into custom gold are even better. This particular tale comes…

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Sunburst: A dazzling 1972 Seeley Commando from NYC Norton.

Sunburst: NYC Norton’s dazzling 1972 Norton Commando

If you live on the east coast of the USA and you need work doing on your Norton Commando, there’s only one…

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BSA A65 hardtail by The Factory Metal Works.

Heavenly Hardtail: Factory Metal Works BSA A65

Classic hardtails aren’t our regular fare, but we can’t resist the subtle beauty of a Factory Metal Works build. Three years, shop…

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Like a two-wheeled Morgan: the Sterling Mk 5 from The Black Douglas Motorcycle Co.

The Black Douglas: A Two-Wheeled Morgan

Fabio Cardoni is a man after our own hearts. “Steel is more beautiful than plastic, and simplicity is more appealing than complexity,”…

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The Amazing Motorcycle Models of Pere Tarragó

The Amazing Motorcycle Models of Pere Tarragó

In the small Spanish town of Molins de Rei lives Pere Tarragó, a motorcycle builder of quite extraordinary skill. His bikes are…

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