Custom Bikes Of The Week: 9 December, 2018
A pair of BMW R NineT customs channeling the past and the future, a glorious Rickman Metisse, and an all-time classic Honda…
Read more »Roland Sands Design is a motorcycle, product and apparel company that has its roots in racing, custom bike building and design. RSD’s inspiration comes from a high performance background, and many of the staff are active racers—including off-road, dirt track and supermoto riders.
Sands himself is from Long Beach, California, and grew up in a family that was immersed in the motorcycle industry. Sands quickly developed his own love of speed, and spent ten years racing professionally, setting multiple track records around the world. In 1998 he became the American Motorcyclist Association’s 250GP champion, but after 32 broken bones, Sands decided to trade in his leathers for a hammer, pencil and computer—designing and building bikes, hard parts and accessories, and apparel.
In 2005, he founded the company Roland Sands Design, drawing on influences from the sport bike and chopper worlds. He has since played a pivotal role in popularizing high performance custom bikes to the masses.
A pair of BMW R NineT customs channeling the past and the future, a glorious Rickman Metisse, and an all-time classic Honda…
Read more »It was the biggest moto stunt of the 21st century. In a marketing masterstroke for Indian Motorcycle, Travis Pastrana reprised three of…
Read more »Roland Sands massages the R nineT into a vintage-styled thing of beauty, plus the strangest official BMW Motorrad concept bike we’ve ever…
Read more »What happens when a notorious flat track nut decides to build a chopper? We take a look at Roland Sands’ latest build…
Read more »Building a bike purely for show has its advantages. There’s no need to worry about whether it runs, steers and stops, and…
Read more »The first time the world laid eyes on the BMW R nineT was three years ago—when it was teased as Roland Sands’…
Read more »A Maserati-powered monster from Lazareth, the one and only custom BMW G 650 Xchallenge we’ve ever seen, and a rip-snortin’ Indian Scout…
Read more »There’s one thing you can’t buy in the custom world: pedigree. And Roland Sands has one of the best pedigrees of all.…
Read more »At the Born Free show a couple of weeks ago, there was a lone road racer in a sea of choppers. And…
Read more »Flat track is where it’s at. It’s a shot of adrenaline for both fans and racers, and the ‘go fast, turn left’…
Read more »Call me old-fashioned, but I reckon dirt bikes have lost the plot in the styling stakes: give me an Elsinore over a…
Read more »The Indian Chieftain is a big motorcycle, designed to soak up the miles on the smooth highways of ‘Murica. The star of…
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