Some motorcycles are a flash in the proverbial pan, abandoned after a couple of years on the market. Others linger in showrooms for years, until stocks are depleted or the tooling costs are paid for. Then you get the bikes that sell steadily, year after year. The Ural has been produced since 1942, with minor…
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Nicky Hayden left a massive hole in the motorcycling world—and in all of our hearts—when he passed away unexpectedly in May last year. In a fitting tribute, the Kentucky Kid was inducted into the AMA Hall of Fame earlier this month. To commemorate the occasion, the Hall of Fame Museum commissioned two tribute bikes from…
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Is ‘scrambler‘ the most overused description in the custom scene vernacular? Probably. It’s been allocated to everything from street bikes with upright ergonomics and knobby tires to true do-it-all machines. We dig them all, but we’re suckers for the real deal. So this machine from Federal Moto has us giddy—a fully-functional dual sport given a…
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When John Ryland of Classified Moto sent through images of this heavily customized Honda XR650L, our jaws hit the floor. So we asked him to explain his thinking. His replies, reproduced verbatim below, are gold dust—and food for thought. AS REWARDING AS creating custom motorcycles can be, there’s a degree of frustration that goes along…
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The Honda XR650L is one of those big, bulletproof dual sport bikes that never seem to change. It’s tough and simple to…
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