Custom motorcycles built by the Cologne-based JvB-moto workshop.
It’s been a couple of years since Harley-Davidson revealed the LiveWire and sent shockwaves through the industry. It was the first battery-powered sportbike from a major OEM, and it still has no competition. Milwaukee positioned (and priced) the LiveWire as a halo product, so column inches have been high and sales low. That also means…
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After an incredible seven years, Yamaha’s Yard Built custom program is still firing on all cylinders. In 2012 it kicked off with the Wrenchmonkees’ iconic ‘MonkeeFist’ XJR1300, and there have been over 60 pro builds since. This is the latest, an XSR900 called ‘CP3’ from Jens vom Brauck of JvB-Moto in Cologne. It tips the…
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We love Jens vom Brauck’s work. The man behind Cologne-based JvB-Moto has a pair of the sharpest eyes in the business, and a knack for stylish yet functional design. But things on the JvB-Moto front have been eerily quiet of late. It turns out that Jens has been working on something very special indeed: a…
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The mighty V-Max is thirty years old this year. And it’s still making the news—for both the right and the wrong reasons. Its creator, Kenji Ekuan of GK Design, died a few days ago. Ekuan isn’t as well known as European designers such as Massimo Tamburini or Miguel Galluzzi, but he should be. His portfolio…
Read more »Ten years ago, Ducati caused a flurry of interest in the custom world with its International Design Contest. The winner was an…
Read more »It’s always fascinating to see the personal rides of well-known custom motorcycle builders. Rough Crafts’ Winston Yeh, for example, rides a tiny…
Read more »If you were taken with the Triumph Tridays “Rumbler”—and it was one of the most popular bikes we’ve shown so far this…
Read more »Jens vom Brauck and Kedo, the German tuning and parts specialists, have taken an everyday Yamaha SR500 and gone back to the…
Read more »A while ago Chris posted the Ducati Flat Red and I think it’s time to do the prequel (especially with prequels being…
Read more »Six months ago, we were awestruck by Jens vom Brauck’s minimalistic Ducati Scrambler custom. But the other day, a comment on twitter…
Read more »The latest project from Cologne-based designer Jens vom Brauck is the minimalistic Scrambler, based on the Ducati Monster 1000ie. Carbon-fibre and kevlar…
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