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AC Sanctuary

The latest motorcycle news and customs

Speed Read, April 2, 2023

2 MONTHS AGO / NO COMMENTS / LATEST MOTORCYCLE NEWS

A modern Kawasaki Z900RS gets the AC Sanctuary treatment this week, followed by a wild Yamaha RD400 street tracker. On the back half of our round-up; a Triumph Street Twin prepped for flat track racing, and a twin-turbo BMW R100 destined for a museum.

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Custom Triumph Street Twin, Suzuki Katana, Triumph Tiger 750, and BMW R68 ISDT

Speed Read, January 29, 2023

4 MONTHS AGO / NO COMMENTS / LATEST MOTORCYCLE NEWS

This weekend’s edition of Speed Read starts off with four of our favorite words—“Suzuki Katana” and “AC Sanctuary.” We also profile a vintage Triumph Tiger, a rare BMW R68 ISDT Special, and a tastefully modded Triumph Street Twin from Deus.

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Heavily modified Kawasaki Z1000 race bike by AC Sanctuary

Red Zed: AC Sanctuary’s 152 hp Z1000 racer

1 YEAR AGO / NO COMMENTS / RACING MOTORCYCLES

Anyone who has raced motorcycles or spun spanners in a pit lane will know that track bikes are a work in progress. They’re mobile test beds, because shaving seconds off lap times is the only way to stay ahead of the competition. The mechanics at the Japanese workshop AC Sanctuary know this. For the past…

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The AC Sanctuary RCM A16

Inch Perfect: Close up with AC Sanctuary’s A16 demo bike

1 YEAR AGO / NO COMMENTS / CUSTOM MOTORCYCLES

If there’s any proof that motorcycling is a universal language, it’s the global fame of AC Sanctuary. Set up in the mid 90s by mechanic Hiroyuki Nakamura, the Japanese workshop rose out of obscurity to become a high water mark for fast and desirable retro racers. That’s despite Nakamura-san and his crew speaking no English.…

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The latest motorcycle news and custom bikes

Speed Read, 30 May 2021

The stories that caught our eye this week, including Gene Romero’s Triumph racer being sold, an MV Agusta that an 18-month-old can…

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The latest motorcycle news and customs

Speed Read, 28 February 2021

If you’re a fan of Japanese inline fours, this is your week. We’ve lined up Kawasaki GPz1100 and Kawasaki KZ1000 restomods, and…

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The best restomods, cafe racers and supercharged bikes from around the web

Custom Bikes Of The Week: 29 March, 2020

A subtle but brilliant Kawasaki Z1 from AC Sanctuary, a wild supercharged Triumph Bobber from England, and a sneak peek at the…

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The best cafe racers, flat trackers and classics from around the web

Custom Bikes Of The Week: 11 August, 2019

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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The best cafe racers, scramblers and restomods of the week

Custom Bikes Of The Week: 25 November, 2018

A new Kawasaki Zed from the Japanese restomod kings AC Sanctuary, a retro-futuristic BMW R80 from Holland, and a $30,000 Yamaha WR450F…

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The best cafe racers, scramblers and restomods of the week

Custom Bikes Of The Week: 14 October, 2018

The Japanese custom rockstars AC Sanctuary set up shop in California. Plus a bratty Honda CB1100, a $49,500 custom kit for the…

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Custom Kawasaki Z1 by AC Sanctuary

Long Live the Zed: AC Sanctuary’s ‘new’ Kawasaki Z1

The new Kawasaki Z900RS had barely broken cover when custom examples started popping up. First Kawasaki Japan commissioned three builds from local…

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AC Sanctuary RCM-283 Kawasaki

Kawasaki cafe racer by AC Sanctuary

The economics of the custom business in Japan are very different to what we usually see in the west. Most of the…

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