Speed Read, June 12, 2022
This week’s custom cocktail includes a Looney Tunes-themed Ducati, a no-holds-barred BMW R18 and a fine-tuned Triumph Scrambler 1200. Plus details of Europe’s first all-electric bike festival.
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Cubus: A blocky custom Suzuki GN250 from Slovakia
Slavo Danko’s one-man custom motorcycle shop has the most appropriate name in the biz: Free Spirit Motorcycles. He marches to the beat of his own drum, building bikes purely for the satisfaction of it, with no-one telling him what to do. Which explains why this Suzuki GN250 took almost four years to build, went through…
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Against all odds: A Suzuki DR-Z400SM by oneYedeer
Building a custom bike is usually a succession of challenges. And sometimes, the bike itself isn’t the biggest challenge: it’s the builder’s skills or circumstances, or curveballs thrown by life. The story of this Suzuki is packed with curveballs. It was built by Argentine-born Sebastian ‘Seba’ Achaval, who likens it to a country song—because its…
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Alpine: An ice-cool Husqvarna SM 630 by Freeride Motos
Some custom builders get locked into one style, while others play all over the field. But Pierre Dhers at Freeride Motos seems to bounce between two very specific styles: scramblers and racers (of both the cafe and track varieties). Now he’s combined both disciplines into one ultra-crisp machine. Dubbed ‘Alpine,’ this Husqvarna SM 630 was…
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Extra Large Supermoto: A KTM 1190 from RATicate Racing
Back in 2003, KTM took the LC8 V-twin motor from their flagship 950 Adventure, and stuck it in a big, gnarly supermotard.…
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Speed Read, 24 January 2021
It’s a newsier mix than usual this week, with the Yamaha SR400 finally down for the count, and a top European motorcycle…
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Super-Supermoto: A KTM 990 SMT from New Zealand
KTM made their bones with dirt bikes, but these days they’re just as well known for their wild street bikes. Their hit…
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In Too Deep: A KTM Supermoto flat tracker by Hombrese
Customizing your own bike is a one-way ticket down a very deep rabbit hole. Make just one change, and soon you’ll have…
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Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2019
It’s always the hardest article to write, but also the most fascinating to research. Our annual roundup of the most popular customs…
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Flying start: An MT-07 supermoto from Queensland
We love customs that have that ‘well sorted’ look—where you get the impression that everything is in the right place, it all…
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Macchina Estrema: Simone Conti’s radical Aprilia SXV550
In the custom world, Simone Conti marches to the beat of a different drum. He’s not into retro throwbacks, old school vibes…
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Dab LM-S: The first Euro4 certified custom motorcycle
There are lots of grey areas in the custom world. The engineering on a factory bike is black-and-white in its precision: components…
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