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.
We love show bikes for their cutting edge design concepts, wild engineering and straight-line performance—but they’re not much use in the real world. On the opposite side of the spectrum, there are customs that aim for maximum usability, by cleverly blending form and function. Most builders stick to just one of those camps, but Fred…
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A Honda CB650R scrambler inspired by the Dakar rally, a quirky shovelhead from Keino Cycles, and a peek at the latest bikes from rising Austrian brand Brixton Motorcycles.
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Today’s ‘modern classic’ scramblers are more show than go. Stylistically, they hark back to the golden years of Californian desert racing—but you wouldn’t want to actually race one across the desert. There are only a couple of motorcycles that buck this trend, and the Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled is one of them. Even though it’s…
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Factory-made modern classics are everywhere these days, but they’re usually premium motorcycles at the upper end of the engine size scale. If you’re looking for a low budget, small capacity bike with retro style, your options are fewer. Unless you live in Australia. Down under, you can get a Sol Invictus Nemesis 400 Scrambler for…
Read more »David Zima isn’t a man to shy away from a challenge. When news of a custom build-off popped up in the Czech…
Read more »Way back in the day, scramblers were really just road bikes that were adapted slightly for desert use. And the same is…
Read more »Kengo Kimura is one of the world’s most versatile bike builders. He can create high-end customs that win ‘Best In Show’ prizes…
Read more »There are some builders who have a very ‘freestyle’ approach, grinding and hammering away at metal until things look right. And then…
Read more »North East Custom have never been bound to one style. We’ve already seen the Italian outfit build cafe racers and street trackers—but…
Read more »Custom motorcycles don’t always need to be practical… unless, of course, you need a purpose built machine that can handle a two…
Read more »Customizing an older bike is always a risk. There’s the custom work to do, but there’s also the arduous task of fixing…
Read more »Mention of a themed custom motorcycle conjures visions of bad reality TV choppers, and sends us into convulsions. But this scrambler is…
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