For some people, building custom bikes is a sideline—an after-hours escape from the daily grind. For others it’s purely a business, with success measured by income and Instagram likes. And then there’s the third type: the guys who are so passionate about the scene, they’d mortgage their house to keep going. Malmö-based Fredrik Pål Persson…
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Mike LaFountain has been working on vintage motorcycles since he was 17, and he’s a perfectionist. His creations are nut-and-bolt perfect; they attract crowds (and awards) at premier events like The Quail, and sit next to other supermodels at the Haas Moto Museum. Getting to this level of quality can take quite a toll on…
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The CB750 is one of the most customized bikes of the past half-century. But just when we thought we’d seen every possible permutation, along comes something completely different: a DOHC ‘K’ with a nitrous injection system. ‘Starrider’ comes from brothers Lion and Ben Ott of Munich-based Motoism, and it’s road-legal on even the TÜV-strangled roads…
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There are around 2.5 million motorcycles on the road in Pakistan. Which sounds impressive until you learn that the population is over 210 million—and most of those bikes are tiny Chinese- and Japanese-made commuters. The custom scene is virtually non-existent, because the import duty on motorcycles is a whopping 50%, and there are sales taxes…
Read more »By the time the nineties rolled around, the reputation of the Honda CB750 was losing its luster. The iconic straight four had…
Read more »As anyone who builds things for a living will tell you, the customer is not always right. Many builders prefer to get…
Read more »Many of the world’s top racing drivers love two wheels just as much as four. We all know Lewis Hamilton rides an…
Read more »‘Perfectly insane about motorcycles’ is how friends and colleagues describe Nazar ‘Gazzz’ Poznyakovsky of Gazzz Garage in Kiev, Ukraine. “I combine engineering…
Read more »When a dog ran out in front of Nick Acosta’s 1974 CB750K it changed his world. He had just done a little…
Read more »Hookie Co. are one of the most exciting new custom shops to have emerged in recent times. On the surface they’re a…
Read more »With a name like Caffeine Custom, you can probably guess which custom style influences this shop. But you might be surprised at…
Read more »Custom builders often cringe at the sight of their first project. But not Craig Marleau of California’s Kick Start Garage. He still…
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