The 2019 Handbuilt Motorcycle Show, hosted by Revival Cycles and BMW Motorrad USA, took place during Austin’s MotoGP in April. Since its inception, the show and its creators have aimed at reviving the culture of physical craftsmanship and the beauty formed by human hands:
“This renaissance of working with our hands has helped create the movement that is the custom motorcycle scene. It is our vision that those that visit The Handbuilt Motorcycle Show will be inspired to pick up tools and use their hands to make something of their own.”
For 2019, the show took place once again at the Austin American Statesman venue adjacent to Town Lake. On Saturday, Team Revival and the Roland Sands Hooligan series hosted a Super Hooligan Race right in the parking lot, and later that night there was a feature screening of Gareth Roberts’s new documentary Oil in the Blood.
Below, we list some of our favorite two-strokes from the show — one of the perennial favorites from the show. All photos courtesy of Brandon LaJoie / Revival Cycles / Handbuilt Show.
2-Stroke Custom Motorcycles: Handbuilt Show 2019
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- Web: revivalcycles.com/handbuilt-motorcycle-show
- Instagram: @handbuiltshow
- Facebook: @thehandbuiltmotoshow
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- Web: www.brandonlajoie.com
- Instagram: @brandon_lajoie
These have to be some of the most beautiful engineered motorcycles that I have had the pleasure to see in some time. Kudos to Pipeburn for allowing me to have this pleasure.
Hey, we love Pipeburn, but we’re BikeBound 🙂
As a longtime 2-stroke fan I would find it hard to pick the “best-in-show” from this selection. Thanks for posting! I do think that I would like to see a brakeless hub on the front of the board tracker. It appears to not be street legal so there would be no need for the front brake–just like to originals.