Speed Read, 15 November 2020
A peek at a seriously cool cyberpunk scooter concept from BMW, plus an R100 rescued from the wrecker’s yard in Spain, a gorgeous Guzzi T5 from Italy, and a Suzuki V-Strom clad entirely in wood. Yes, really.
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 19 July, 2020
A funky Cushman scooter bought on auction, a BMW R100 GS given the Dakar treatment, a stunning Suzuki Katana restomod, and did you know that there’s an Egli-framed Ducati 900 SS out there?
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Maxxed Out: Yamaha TMAX 500 by Unikat Motorworks
Folks who ride motorcycles today often started out on scooters, especially in Europe. But Maciej Bielawski of Poland did it the other way round. “I’ve been riding motorbikes since I was a child, starting in the 80s,” he tells us. “But then I switched to scooters. Why? Because they’re easy, especially in the city where…
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Super Scooter: A NOS-fuelled Piaggio NRG drag racer
The words ‘drag racing’ and ‘scooter’ shouldn’t belong in the same sentence. But if you ask us, the idea of boosting micro-sized machines to race instead of commute sounds like buckets of fun. Especially when your race bike makes five times its original power, runs nitrous, and weighs next to nothing. This plucky little sprinter…
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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…
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Pocket Patina: Colby Thompson and his Cushman Scooters
Of all the hobbies you could have, Colby Thompson’s is pretty unbeatable. By day, he’s a company CEO—but after hours, he restores…
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Butchered: An insane custom Vespa scooter from Russia
Butcher Garage is not a familiar name around these parts. But they specialize in a genre we’d love to see more of:…
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Manurhin scooter
When I was a lad growing up in the North of England, the Mod Revival was in full swing. Scooters were everywhere,…
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Centaur Scooter
This, believe it or not, is a scooter capable of 40 mph (60 kph). It’s the Centaur, a folding two-wheeler built from…
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