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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Abandon All Hope: A futuristic motorcycle from Argentina
Having a regular stream of customer work is a blessing and a curse. Sure, it puts food on the table—but it also usually means working to a brief and a deadline. And that can get pretty frustrating when you’re someone with an over-active imagination. Patricio Castelli knows this hustle all too well. He’s based in…
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A Modern-Day Majestic: ‘The Six’ by Revival Cycles
The Handbuilt Show is happening this coming weekend in Austin, Texas. One of the USA’s premium custom bike events, it’s packed each year with lustworthy handcrafted machines, curated by hosts Revival Cycles. But even though this six-cylinder, hub-steered oddity is Revival’s handiwork—and will fit right in—it won’t be at the show this year. That’s because…
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Sub Zero Cool: A Yamaha GTS 1000 from the Arctic Circle
Velfjord is a pretty little town of red-painted houses in Norway—a winter wonderland surrounded by mountains, fjords, lakes and forests. It’s also incredibly remote, being a five-hour drive from Trondheim, the nearest city. This is the land of the midnight sun, just south of the Arctic Circle. It’s also where Roel Scheffers builds incredible custom…
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Custom Ducati: The TT3 Difazio 900SS
With literally hundreds of machines dropping into my inbox every week, it takes something truly special to stop me in my tracks.…
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The extraordinary 1921 Ner-a-Car motorcycle
For a hundred years, motorcycle designers have been toying with different ways to connect the front wheel to the frame. And there’s…
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1929 Majestic
This extraordinary French motorcycle from between the wars was spotted by Paul d’Orléans in Bavaria recently. He sums it up perfectly: “The…
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