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Minnesota native Jillian Deschenes is not a pro custom motorcycle builder: from Monday to Friday, she’s a hospice nurse in the suburbs of Minneapolis. But on the weekends she’s a flat track racer—and a fierce one, too. In just her second year of racing, Jillian’s already the number one plate holder in the women’s class…
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There’s something pure and extremely entertaining about drag bikes. They’re hopelessly impractical, usually dangerous, and invariably ridden by folks with a scant regard for personal safety. It’s hard to take that genre up a notch, but the top Indonesian shop Thrive has just gone one better than the typical eighth-miler. This extraordinary machine, nicknamed ‘T…
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If you’re a custom builder, one of the most difficult briefs is for a race bike. No matter the genre or discipline of the project, the purpose-built, stripped-down nature of race machinery leaves minimal room for aesthetic creativity. After all, these bikes are not built to look pretty. They’re built to run a distance in…
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A nitrous-fueled Indian Scout racer in Siberia, the first Yamaha Yamaha FZX750 we’ve featured, a classy Monster from Revival Cycles, and what appears to be a two-stroke Suzuki Katana … but isn’t.
Read more »There’s an unspoken truth about building custom motorcycles: you don’t have to change everything. Sometimes it’s enough to just switch up a…
Read more »In the lore of motorcycle racing, Battle of The Twins has few equals. First staged in the US at Daytona in 1981,…
Read more »The words ‘drag racing’ and ‘scooter’ shouldn’t belong in the same sentence. But if you ask us, the idea of boosting micro-sized…
Read more »A jewel-like Hartford from Cowboy’s Chopper, a body kit for Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 owners, a killer vintage drag bike and…
Read more »Four years ago Eicher Motors, the owner of Royal Enfield, bought the famous British company Harris Performance. Since the 1970s, Harris has…
Read more »This website is fueled by our fascination with beautifully crafted motorcycles, and the world around them. That usually keeps our focus on…
Read more »Flat track racing is all the rage in Europe and the States, but it hasn’t really caught on in South Africa yet.…
Read more »The fourth and final episode of Slide has just dropped, and it’s a fascinating insight into the psychology of racers. What happens…
Read more »Motorcycle racing is a serious business. It’s time consuming, usually expensive, and always risky. But there are still a few folks willing…
Read more »REV’IT! has just dropped the third episode in the bite-sized series on flat track, Slide. This week we go behind the scenes…
Read more »A brutal new Kawasaki restomod from AC Sanctuary, a Crocker Small Tank about to go under the hammer, and a slick Krämer…
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