Custom motorcycles built by Deus Ex Machina.
Since modern motorcycles are far more complex than their predecessors, it makes them harder to customize. But a few bikes buck that trend—like the Yamaha MT-07, and the MT-derived XSR700. The MT engine and its requisite plumbing are a little cluttered to the eye, but it’s a hella peachy mill, packed into an equally playful…
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Ever heard of analysis paralysis? It happens when you’ve got so many ideas, your project stalls because you can’t make your mind up. Tomoyuki Soeda at Deus Ex Machina‘s Japanese outpost had a dose of it when he designed this R100RS—but then he hatched a plan to overcome it. Soeda-san managed to distill his ideas…
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You’ve probably heard the word ‘bitsa’ thrown around these parts if you’re a regular here. For the uninitiated, it’s a motorcycle that has ‘bits of everything.’ Bitsas are the mongrel dogs of the custom motorcycle world… and just like mongrels, some of them are hard to look at. But others are cross-bred in just the…
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Building a competitive flat track racer is downright scientific. Countless factors like weight, geometry, power delivery and gearing all have to be optimized to the nth degree. But building a street tracker is simpler; as long as you have the flat track look and feel locked in, whether or not it can actually hold its…
Read more »Long before ‘bike build off’ competitions became popular with manufacturers, Deus held one every year—in the car park next to their original…
Read more »The Pikes Peak race is just two weeks away now, and the competition is getting red hot. We’ve already profiled the Zero…
Read more »We’ve got all shapes and sizes this this week—starting with a slick Triumph Bonneville kit, and finishing off with the cutest electric…
Read more »Deus cracks the style code for a Sportster cafe racer. Plus a custom Ducati Paul Smart owned by the principal of a…
Read more »Building a custom bike for a motorcycle racer is a tall order. And the stakes are even higher when your customer is…
Read more »If you’re after a job in the motorcycle industry, Deus Bali has got to be one of the best places in the…
Read more »Some new bikes are dropped into the market and left to fend for themselves, but not the Z900RS. The moto press hasn’t…
Read more »Honda is often cast as the most conservative of the mainstream motorcycle manufacturers. But Big Red also makes one of the strangest…
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