Garage Dreams: MAAN-built Chopper from Sardinia! The new Honda GB350S is making positive waves among riders and reviewers. The retro single-cylinder thumper offers classic style, simplicity of design, and costs less than £4000 new. It […]
Custom Motorcycles
Bike Shed Moto Show: Round 2
The 2025 Bike Shed Moto Show boasted more than 250 custom bikes. Some 20,000 visitors passed through the doors of London’s Tobacco Dock warehouse venue, perusing the bikes and enjoying the bars, bands, and artists […]
Obsidian Rawline 400: Honda CM400 Bobber
Clean, Raw, and Light: 400cc Bobber from JasinTom Motorcycles… One thing we don’t see as much as we’d like are small, lightweight bobbers perfect for blasting around town or city. In fact, we were just […]
Garage Dreams: Honda GB350 Customs!
Each year, Honda Spain (Honda Motocicletas España) hosts the Garage Dreams Contest in the lead up to the annual Wheels & Waves Festival in Biarritz, France. A different model is chosen time, and dealerships and […]
Mushman Runner: Yamaha XS650 Desert Sled
What if Steve McQueen aka Harvey Mushman decided to build and race an XS650? In a strange twist of fate, the Yamaha XS650, introduced in 1969, took up the standard of the British twins […]
80s-Style Electric: Black Tea Bonfire
Electric Runabout from Munich’s Loose Screw… Viktor of Black Tea Motorbikes designed, developed, and assembled his first prototype while still a university student. He originally intended to build what would be an e-bike without pedals, […]
Freddie Blade: Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade
Fast Freddie-inspired Fireblade Retromod from Rindperformance… Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1961, Freddie Spencer began racing dirt track at the tender age of four…and his innate talent was immediately apparent. At 17, he won […]
County Carver: Yamaha FZR750 Genesis
From €150 Donor to Endurance-Style 90s Restomod… Jonny Kerins (@jfk_bikes) of Ireland’s County Meath builds and restores bikes out of an old milking parlor on his 1950s farm. His love for sport bikes goes back […]
Bike Shed Moto Show 2025: Round 1
The Bike Shed Moto Show started back in 2013, created by a dozen amateur motorbike enthusiasts and held under the railway arches a few hundred yards from the current BSMC brick-and-mortar location in Shoreditch, London. […]
Spirit of ’78: 1230cc Suzuki GS750E Restomod
Big-Bore 1100EFE-Powered Dream Machine from Jon Lilley… In the animal kingdom, young animals form a strong attachment to the first moving object they see, usually a parent — a process called “imprinting.” In the motorcycle […]
