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.
The BMW R nineT Urban G/S is a tough pill to swallow. From a styling standpoint, we totally get it; the original BMW R80G/S was iconic, and one of the few motorcycles to ever truly pull off a red seat. Many riders give it credit for kickstarting the entire adventure riding genre—and while there’s some…
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In 1937 Alfonso Marini ventured off from his partner, Mario Mazzetti and the MM brand, to start his own motorcycle company. Morini had been building and repairing bikes in Northern Italy since he was a teen and spent time in the 8th Motorcycles Unit stationed in Padova, Italy during World War I. Over the course…
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On paper, a 10 hp motorcycle with a seat height of 30 inches doesn’t sound particularly exciting. And yet the Honda Grom remains one of the funnest and most adored motorcycles on the planet. If you can’t understand why, stop reading right now and go take one for a spin. It’s zippier than its diminutive…
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Many Honda Dominator customs use the same template. Swap the fuel tank for something slimmer, trim the subframe and you’re halfway there. But there’s another way to go about it; lean into the Dominator’s adventure bike DNA to build a utilitarian scrambler. That’s the path that the Hungarian workshop, Neuga, took with this 1994 Honda…
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A couple of fraternal Triumph twins from Istanbul kick off this week’s batch of customs, followed by an e-bike built for the…
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Modern dirt bikes are the epitome of form following function. Narrow fuel tanks are easier to grip with your knees, flat seats…
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Royal Enfield is one of few OEMs with a healthy, ongoing custom motorcycle program. Sometimes they farm their projects out to the…
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deBolex Engineering’s latest work sees the Royal Enfield Interceptor turned into a stylish alpine rally support vehicle. We also look at a…
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The custom scene is scattered with craftspeople that do more than just build awesome motorcycles. James Fawcett is a prime example. As…
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We kick this weekend’s edition of Speed Read off with two very different BMW K100 customs. Then we bring you a Yamaha…
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Yamaha’s beloved SR has come in an array of sizes over the years, all closely resembling each other. Of all of them,…
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You’ll find no shortage of custom Harleys on builder Kento Oketani’s home streets of Long Beach. But you won’t find anything quite…
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