Loco velo: A totally bonkers sprint motorcycle concept
What do a Kawasaki KZ250 engine, a car’s spare wheel and a bicycle seat have in common? You’ll find them all on…
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Esputnik II: An electric drag racing bike from Spain
Bizarro Corp.’s online store has a T-shirt that reads “café racer is dead.” It’s a little rich coming from a custom workshop…
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Pegasus: Bad Winners’ Royal Enfield GT 650 drag bike
There’s hardly a business that hasn’t been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in some way. The Parisian custom shop Bad Winners knows…
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Dunaali: A Royal Enfield dustbin fairing racer from India
We all have a friend whose motorcycle is lathered with carbon fiber parts—and although they’ll claim otherwise, we know that it’s more…
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Silver Ant: Hookie Co.’s Cake Ösa electric drag racer
Cake’s electrical motorcycles look exactly like you’d expect high-end products from Swedish designers to look: slick, utilitarian and minimalist. So who better…
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Above the law: A street legal Yamaha salt flat racer
This brutal-looking Yamaha RD350 is nearly fifty years old, but when the lights turn green, not much will be able to keep…
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Bruiser: A Harley Softail drag bike from Belgium
We’ve followed the wacky Sultans of Sprint race series since day one, impressed by the outrageous purpose-built machines that some of our…
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Double H: Herb Becker’s supercharged Norton drag bike
History has a strange habit of repeating itself. Exactly ten years ago, give or take a few days, we featured a twin-engined…
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T 22 Synthesis: A twin-engined Kawasaki drag bike
There’s something pure and extremely entertaining about drag bikes. They’re hopelessly impractical, usually dangerous, and invariably ridden by folks with a scant…
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Super Scooter: A NOS-fuelled Piaggio NRG drag racer
The words ‘drag racing’ and ‘scooter’ shouldn’t belong in the same sentence. But if you ask us, the idea of boosting micro-sized…
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Continental Racer: Sinroja’s Royal Enfield Drag Bike
A couple of years ago, Sinroja Motorcycles were one of the first workshops to join Royal Enfield’s new custom program. They built…
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Achilles: BMW’s new R1250RS gets the drag bike treatment
In Europe, the Sultans of Sprint competition produces some of the wackiest drag bikes, year on year. It’s written in the rules:…
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