Custom motorcycles built by the English workshop Speed & Custom. Founded in 2009 and formerly known as Shaw Speed & Custom, the company is now a part of the Sykes H-D dealership.
Speed & Custom is known for its ‘extreme’ builds as well as its more moderate customer commissions, and is a regular at the AMD World Championship shows.
We’ve got a Harley-heavy selection this week, with a cafe racer from Italy, a scrambler from Japan and a tracker from the UK. Rounding out the selection are a rally-style Royal Enfield, and a jaw-dropping cafe/streetfighter Ducati Panigale.
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We don’t see many Sportsters with a racy slant. But this new machine from Speed & Custom shows what is possible. And it totally looks the part. ‘Miss Universe’ is a Harley Sportster 48 commissioned by Australian businessman Troy Barbagallo, who noticed Shaw’s Nascafe Racer and fell in love. He promptly got in touch with…
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Like Gulf Oil, Martini is a brand inextricably associated with speed. The blue and red stripes are one of the most distinctive liveries in motorsport, and forever associated with the Martini Racing Porsches from the 1970s. Martini hits its 150th anniversary in 2013, and the English shop Shaw Speed & Custom has joined the celebrations…
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If there’s any doubt about the spreading influence of Rough Crafts’ Winston Yeh, this Harley Sportster 48 custom dispels it. It’s a collaboration with Shaw Speed, the custom workshop owned by a top UK Harley-Davidson dealer. Shaw Speed boss Steve Willis took a liking to Rough Crafts’ builds, and contacted Yeh in Taiwan to see…
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What sort of custom bike can you get for $10,000 to $15,000? I get a lot of emails asking that question. They’re…
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When I think of a custom Heritage Softail, I think of a bike that has lost its way. You know the type:…
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In six months, this could be most famous custom Harley-Davidson Softail in the world. It’s yet another winner built by the English…
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EXCLUSIVE Yesterday was the finale of the London International Custom Bike Show, the UK round of the AMD World Championship. So here’s…
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