Union Motorcycle Classics builds a tribute to Peter Williams and his John Player Nortons… In December 2020, the motorcycle world lost one of the greatest GP racer/designer/engineers of all time, Peter Williams. The son of […]
Custom Motorcycles
Street-Legal Racer: 1977 Honda CB400F
For Sale: 1977 Honda CB400F RC166 Race Replica! In 1966, the Honda RC166 swept the 250cc Gran Prix World Championship, taking victory in 10 out of 10 races with the legendary Mike Hailwood crouched behind […]
King Wolf: Triumph “Mardanis” Scrambler
Lord Drake Kustoms builds a wild Triumph Scrambler… The Triumph T100 Bonneville is one of the most popular modern platforms for customization. It’s easy to see why. The retro lines hark back to the […]
Super 6: Honda CBX1000 Cafe Racer
Lys Motorcycles builds a carbon-clad CBX… The Honda CBX1000 remains one of our favorite Japanese motorcycles of all time. While the stock machine didn’t have the handling some expected from Honda’s first six-cylinder production bike, […]
Honda CBX “1098R” by MotoRRetro
A CBX1000 cafe racer from Sydney’s MotoRRetro… In 1966, Mike “The Bike” Hailwood won the 250cc Gran Prix championship on one of the most radical machines of the era, Honda’s RC166 six-cylinder racer. Designed to […]
Super Dream: Honda CB250N by Sabotage Motorcycles
Sweet 250cc roadster from Sydney, Australia… In 1978, Honda introduced the CB250N Super Dream, a 27-hp air-cooled parallel twin touted as a modern incarnation of the original 1960 CB72 Dream. At 249cc, the bike satisfied […]
Green V: Yamaha XV1000 TR1 Cafe Racer
Lys Motorcycles builds a sporty V-twin Yamaha… In 1981, the Yamaha XV1000 TR1 appeared in European showrooms. Though it bore close semblance to the shaft-drive Virago series, the 980cc V-twin TR1 featured a fully enclosed […]
Speedy Seagull: 100cc Honda Land Speeder
Speedy Siegl’s methanol-fueled, nitrous-injected 100cc land speeder! This past summer, we were fortunate to make the journey across the country to the Bonneville Salt Flats outside Wendover, Utah, for the 2021 Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials. […]
Restomod Roadster: Honda CB750 “Hanashi”
“Hanashi (History) in the present.” –Cafeina Motorcycles The Honda CB750 remains one of the most iconic, influential, and beloved motorcycles in history. Today, it may not seem like such a revolutionary bike, but that’s only […]
The Cool One: 1971 Rickman Metisse 650 Desert Sled
Clinton Hill Classics recreates Steve McQueen’s Metisse desert racer! In the 1950s, brothers Derek and Don Rickman were successful UK motocross riders who decided to turn their passion into a business, building off-road chassis kits […]
