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Ten Best Motorcycles

Bike EXIF’s yearly review of the best custom motorcycles from every category: cafe racer, scrambler, tracker, bobber and more.

The best custom motorcycles of 2022

Editor’s Choice: An alternative top 10 for 2022

4 WEEKS AGO / NO COMMENTS / TEN BEST MOTORCYCLES

You know the drill. Once we’ve processed the data and published our ranked list of the year’s best custom motorcycles, I throw it out the window and pick my personal favorites. And it’s never easy. 2022 has been a good year for the custom scene. My short list started with 42 motorcycles, all of them…

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The best custom motorcycles of 2022

Revealed: The top 10 custom motorcycles of 2022

1 MONTH AGO / NO COMMENTS / TEN BEST MOTORCYCLES

The numbers have been crunched, and the results are in. And as usual, our annual roundup of the most popular custom bikes on Bike EXIF is both enlightening and eclectic. The ten machines listed here are those that made our servers work the hardest in 2022. This ranked selection is purely data-based. We take our…

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The best custom motorcycles of 2021

Editor’s Choice: An alternative top 10 for 2021

1 YEAR AGO / NO COMMENTS / TEN BEST MOTORCYCLES

Our annual review of the most popular custom motorcycles is based purely on statistics, and is almost always polarizing. To balance it out, I have the formidable task of picking my ten personal favorite customs of the year, data be damned. It’s never easy, but 2021 was a year where the cream truly rose to…

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The best custom motorcycles of 2021

Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2021

1 YEAR AGO / NO COMMENTS / TEN BEST MOTORCYCLES

It’s that time of year again! And once again, it’s been a year we’re glad to see the back of. The pandemic didn’t seem to put a dent in the custom scene, though: for every larger workshop experiencing a slowdown, there seemed to be an amateur builder taking up the tools. This list is a…

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Editor's Choice: An Alternative Top 10 for 2020

Editor’s Choice: An Alternative Top 10 for 2020

This time each year, we gather our web and social media stats and pick the ten most popular custom motorcycles of the…

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Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2020

Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2020

Let’s face it—it’s been the year from hell for most of us. But builders kept on building, in sheds and workshops and…

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Bike EXIF Editor's Choice: An Alternative Top 10 custom motorcycles for 2019

Editor’s Choice: An Alternative Top 10 for 2019

This is tough. Week on week, we strive to curate only the best custom motorcycles for you, our readers. So even though…

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Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2019

Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2019

It’s always the hardest article to write, but also the most fascinating to research. Our annual roundup of the most popular customs…

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Editor's Choice: An Alternative Top 10 Customs of 2018

Editor’s Choice: An Alternative Top 10 for 2018

It’s that time of year when we throw the data out the window and pick our personal favorite customs of 2018. Our…

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Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2018

Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2018

What a year it’s been for the custom scene. With so many great bikes crossing our radar, it’s almost impossible to pick…

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Editor's Choice: An Alternative Top 10 Customs of 2017

Editor’s Choice: An Alternative Top 10 for 2017

As each year winds down we sharpen our pencils, trawl through our data and whip up our annual Bike EXIF Top Ten.…

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The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2017

Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2017

It’s been a cracking year for the custom motorcycle scene, with a delectable array of killer builds from all over the world.…

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Editor's Choice: An Alternative Top 10 Customs of 2016

Editor’s Choice: An Alternative Top 15 for 2016

Since 2009, we’ve dug through our stats at the end of every year to see which bikes our readers liked the most.…

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The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2015

The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2016

Another year is almost over, but there’s no sign of the custom scene losing pace. Exciting new shops are springing up all…

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Editor's Choice: An Alternative Top 10 Customs of 2015

Editor’s Choice: An Alternative Top 10

The traditional annual Bike EXIF Top 10 is governed by web traffic, social shares and links. It’s a reliable snapshot of what…

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