Your complete guide to scrambler motorcycles, from retro desert sleds to 21st century specials. Here you’ll find traditional Triumph and Ducati scrambler builds plus the latest BMW, Yamaha and Kawasaki conversions—with a few Harleys thrown in too.
Discover the performance upgrades and styling tweaks that’ll make your own scrambler bike more fun to ride and own, whether on the road or dirt.
Classic BMW boxers are so prolific as custom donors, that most builds these days are very formulaic. But there are dozens of swing-and-miss examples out there, that prove that it still takes a sharp eye and a measure of good taste to get them right. This 1974 BMW R90S scrambler from Injustice Customs in Sweden…
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As Robert Burns once quipped, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and this statement has become exponentially more true of late. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only impacted businesses, but also thrown a wrench in the social lives of most people. Deus ex Machina’s Seoul outpost has found the cure for…
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For nine years now, Yamaha’s ‘Yard Built’ program has set the benchmark for manufacturer-sponsored custom projects. We’ve covered it right from the beginning, since the reveal of the Wrenchmonkees’ MonkeeFist XJR1300. There must be some 50 or more builds since, but it wasn’t until the XSR155 was released that Yamaha opened up the program to…
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The Triumph Street Scrambler is one of those bikes that does everything well. It’s well designed and well made, with a crackin’ good engine and the ability to handle the occasional trail ride or (slightly) slippery stuff. But what if you want a little more off-road ability, without losing the charm of the bike, spending…
Read more »The NX650 Dominator is a staple of the European dual sport scene, even though production stopped 18 years ago. Like the Suzuki…
Read more »From where I’m writing, in rural New Zealand, the Suzuki DR650 is a common sight. The bulletproof thumper has been one of…
Read more »We’ve found something for everyone this week in our travels around the web. We’ve got an XT600 from the Netherlands, a Honda…
Read more »Hayden Roberts once quipped that when he moved from England to California in the early 2000s, it was “about 40 years too…
Read more »Is there any motorcycle genre more evocative than the ‘desert sled’? The very name conjures up images of blasting across the sandy…
Read more »By all accounts, the new Yamaha Ténéré 700 is a smash hit. Its 689 cc parallel twin motor is a total peach,…
Read more »These days, the methods used to build custom motorcycles are as diverse as the designs themselves. Some builders lean on modern tech…
Read more »It’s getting hard these days to tell if a custom comes from an amateur or professional workshop; the part-timers are really leveling…
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