Introduced in 1998, the Honda CB600F — better known as the the Honda 599 (USA) or Hornet (Europe) — utilized the old mid-90s CBR600F sportbike engine, tuned to 97 horsepower and set in a basic […]
Custom Motorcycles
Fuel-Injected Suzuki DR800 Street Tracker by Frateschi Garage
A fuel-injected uber-thumper from Brazil… The Suzuki DR800S — also known as the “DR Big” or “Desert Express” — has been called the “Granddaddy of The Dual-Sports,” a 54-hp big-single beast born from a legendary […]
Honda XR250 Tornado Scrambler by LBC Motorcycles
Retro Enduro built by Argentina’s Low Budget Customs… The Honda XR250 Tornado was a Latin American equivalent of the XR250L, sporting an air/oil-cooled 4-valve DOHC tuned for better low-end torque and slightly less peak power […]
Suzuki T500 Flat Tracker By A.K. Cycles
Two-stroke twin tracker from Colorado! Introduced in 1968, the Suzuki T500 was a 46-hp two-stroke parallel twin that would be marketed as the Cobra and Titan over the years. Though it was known to be […]
“Stormbringer” Harley-Davidson Sportster Café Racer
In 1972, English illustrator Paul Sample created Ogri for Bike magazine, a cartoon whose leather-clad star — Ogri himself — wears a set of Thor-like wings on his helmet and rides a self-built 1000cc Norvin […]
Black Russian: Honda CB750 Cafe Racer by Drive-In Workshop
Leonid Skakunov of Russia’s Drive-In Workshop cut his teeth as a mechanic at various workshops before renting a small space of his own in 2016 to build custom bikes. In the last four years, his […]
Custom Built Show 2020: People’s Choice Award
We’re thrilled to host the voting for the 2020 Custom Built Show People’s Choice Award. CBS is the first and greatest custom motorcycle show in Latin America, created to help the region’s builders publicize their […]
Turbo Shovelhead by Christian T. Newman
Still Greasy: A turbocharged 80 cubic-inch hand-shift Shovelhead… All over the world, every night, unsung men and women are hard at work in cramped garages and sheds, overcoming limited funds, daily stresses, sore backs, busty […]
Time’s Up: Buell Thunderbolt Street Tracker
Colorado’s Nigel Mount builds a radical Buell tracker for The Greasy Dozen 2020… Since 2012, the good folks at Old Bike Barn have presented one of the nation’s great grassroots motorcycle events, the Greasy Dozen […]
Ms.Behave: BMW R1150GS by Hobo Motorcycles
The BMW R1150GS was the company’s premier adventure bike from 1999-2004, powered by an 1130cc, 85-hp air/oil-cooled flat twin boxer engine that made a stump-pulling 75 lb-ft of torque at 5250 rpm. The big GS […]
