Speed Read, June 12, 2022
This week’s custom cocktail includes a Looney Tunes-themed Ducati, a no-holds-barred BMW R18 and a fine-tuned Triumph Scrambler 1200. Plus details of Europe’s first all-electric bike festival.
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Custom motorcycles based on the popular Ducati Scrambler, including the classic air-cooled 250, 350 and 450 bikes through to the latest 2019 Scrambler, complete with cornering ABS and LED lighting.
Discover the parts and performance upgrades that’ll take your own Ducati Scrambler to the next level—no matter what year it was built.
How custom trends influence motorcycle design
Motorcycle historian Paul d’Orléans takes a deep dive for Iron & Air into the uneasy but essentially productive relationship between the modern-day custom scene and design teams at the major manufacturers. In the ancient days of the 1990s, custom motorcycles were incredibly popular, but their baroque excess made them irrelevant to the motorcycle industry. The…
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On Trend: A Ducati Scrambler street tracker from Vietnam
It’s not always pretty when the worlds of fashion and motorcycles collide, but some companies know how to do it right. Vietnamese apparel brand NUEN is a fresh face on the scene, but their first custom motorcycle build proves that they’re not playing around. Built using a 2015-model Ducati Scrambler 800 and named ‘Nu-One,’ this…
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Speed Read, September 26, 2021
This week’s bikes come in all shapes and sizes. We’ve got a Ducati Scrambler Cafe Racer from Poland, a Suzuki Thunder 125 chopper from Indonesia, and a custom mini-bike from a small Hungarian village. Plus we take a look at BMW Motorrad’s fourth Pure&Crafted show.
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Hill Climber: Ant Partridge’s Reality TV Ducati Scrambler
Not all custom motorcycles built for reality TV are bad. Anthony Partridge is the bike guy on Discovery Channel’s Goblin Works Garage…
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Speed Read, July 4 2021
It’s all about nostalgia this week, with a special Brough Superior SS100, a new exhibition at the Petersen Automotive Museum, and a…
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Dream Team: An eye-popping Ducati Scrambler flat tracker
Paint is the last thing that happens on a custom job, but it’s the first thing that people notice. And the livery…
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Big Sled: A Ducati Scrambler 1100 from Officine RossoPuro
We’ve been lucky enough to ride most of Ducati’s extensive Scrambler range. Of all of them, the Desert Sled is the one…
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Speed Read, 31 January 2021
The Swedish electric bike company Cake takes on poaching in Africa, and Triumph cranks the Speed Triple up a notch. Plus we…
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Speed Read, 3 January 2021
We kick off our first Speed Read of the year with a Ducati Scrambler kit from Hookie Co. with a strong 90s…
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Review: The Ducati Scrambler 1100 Sport Pro
When Ducati launched the Scrambler line in 2014, it did so promising a template. A kind of 750cc, air-cooled blank slate, ripe…
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Race prep: Secrets of the Fasthouse Ducati Desert Sleds
Today’s ‘modern classic’ scramblers are more show than go. Stylistically, they hark back to the golden years of Californian desert racing—but you…
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