The Kawasaki W800’s versatility is just one of its many charms. Throw a handful of mods at it, and you’ll end up with a respectable garden variety street scrambler in no time. But how about turning it into a full-on vintage motocrosser, where the original bike is almost unrecognizable? That takes equal doses of imagination,…
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A rapid Kawasaki W800 street tracker from South Korea, a sleek Honda CB650 from Indonesia’s Thrive Motorcycles, a wild Indian FTR750 hillclimber, and a lovely short film about a Kawasaki H2 Mach IV 750.
Read more »If you’re after a cute little bobbed street tracker, you’d be hard pressed to find a better donor than the Kawasaki W800. Right out of the box it has a great stance, it’s relatively easy to hack around, and its punchy air-cooled motor is a work of art. The W800 is also pretty compact. Weight-wise…
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This week, we’re starting a new series: a roundup of the most interesting customs from around the web. Our roving reporter is Matt Neundorf, an occasional bike builder with a dismantled Triumph in his garage (and a sideline as Gear Patrol’s motorcycling correspondent). Take it away, Matt.
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We’ve waxed lyrical about Kawasaki’s W800 before, and how great it is as a custom platform. It’s simple, reliable and looks good…
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We’re starting a new series on our favorite custom bike platforms. To kick it off we’ve chosen Kawasaki’s W650, a popular choice…
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You can find a passion for motorcycles in the unlikeliest of locations—even on a small island in SE Asia still reeling from…
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It’s always good to see the major manufacturers commissioning bikes from new-wave custom builders. Ural got into the game early, hooking up…
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Some workshops customize motorcycles so well, it’s hard to tell whether or not they are ‘factory’ customs. Most of these outfits are…
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This Kawasaki W800 custom is the most “British” looking build I’ve seen for a while. So it’s ironic that it was built…
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Just two hours after Kawasaki took the wraps off its new W 800 at INTERMOT, German tuner LSL-Motorradtechnik revealed the bike that…
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