Custom Bikes Of The Week: 5 April, 2020
A wild new Vyrus superbike from Italy, a Honda XR600 built for a Spanish Dakar racer, and a stylish collection of custom motorcycle coloring pages from the British artist Ian Galvin.
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Although Ducati is now owned by Automobili Lamborghini, the Bologna company is regarded as the Ferrari of the motorcycle world. Since the 1950s, its sporting motorcycles have been a favorite target of racers, tweakers and customizers.
In the custom world, the SportClassic is regarded as the archetypal modern-day café racer. Designed by Pierre Terblanche and launched in 2003, the SportClassic was way ahead of its time and sold poorly until its demise in 2010. But nowadays, values of Ducati models are rising rapidly and the styling is uniquely pleasing to the eye.
The Pantah and Monster have always been popular Ducati bikes with builders, but we’re now seeing the purer sportbikes creeping into the scene—often with ‘retro fighter’ builds—and a huge number of Scrambler customs.
Forza Ducati! The Multistrada reimagined as a cafe racer
We’re always impressed when a custom motorcycle design is so cohesive, it could easily be a factory effort. Or, at the very least, it has us wishing the factory would produce something similar. This first-gen Ducati Multistrada illustrates my point wonderfully. The original is anything but cohesive—but somehow Italian shop North East Custom has managed…
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Ducati SS1000: Redesigning the SportClassic GT1000
Like any proper cult vehicle, the Ducati SportClassic was hugely under-appreciated when it was first released. That’s probably because it was ahead of its time—blending retro style with contemporary performance, just before modern classics were as popular as they are now. Or maybe it’s because its looks simply didn’t gel with everyone. Most pundits think…
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Hyper8: A race-ready Ducati Hypermotard from Analog
There’s an unspoken truth about building custom motorcycles: you don’t have to change everything. Sometimes it’s enough to just switch up a few parts, and leave others alone. But Tony Prust feels differently—he’s an extra mile kind of guy, who works with a sharp eye and meticulous hands. It’s an especially good approach when you’re…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 12 January, 2020
A Gucci-inspired Ducati Monster S2R from Estonia, a classic Triton from one of Britain’s best builders, plus a short appreciation of Colin…
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SuperStrada: Revisiting the Ducati 900 SS, 25 years on
Mike Vienne is a man obsessed by weight. His specialty is turning blunt knives into razor-sharp scalpels: or rather, improving sportbikes by…
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46Works turns the first-gen Multistrada into a looker
The incomparable Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show went down this past weekend, and as usual the brightest stars of the Japanese custom…
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Inch perfect: A Ducati Hypermotard 939 from Rough Crafts
There are motorcycles that are considered so sacred, you wouldn’t dare customize them. And there are motorcycles that work so well out…
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Surprise: carbon expert BST reveals the $80,000 HyperTEK
There are always a few surprises at the EICMA motorcycle show. This year, one of the biggest was the launch of this…
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Dutch courage: Moto Adonis tackles the Ducati S4R
The S4R has got to be one of Ducati’s greatest hits. The water-cooled Monster used a retuned DOHC 996 engine with eight…
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Speciale ultimo: A most unusual custom Ducati
You could call it a mongrel, or a parts bin special—but we reckon this unusual Ducati is one of the cleverest and…
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A Scrambler Ducati upgraded by a pro moto designer
We’re always intrigued when design professionals customize a bike — and even more so when when they’re automotive specialists. This long, low…
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