A 70+ hp Himalayan Twin from SurfSide Motorcycle Garage… Royal Enfield introduced the Himalayan in 2018, a lightweight adventure / dual-sport bike that featured an air-cooled 411cc single-cylinder engine. In a market where machines seem […]
Custom Motorcycles
Mean Green: Yamaha Virago 750 Café Racer
Jerem Motorcycles builds a mean, green XV750… In the early 1980s, Yamaha introduced the XV750 Virago, their first V-twin “custom”-style cruiser. Though the air-cooled V-twin seemed like a completely novel design, it was actually well-rooted […]
Baby V-Max: Yamaha FZX750 Street Tracker
Badass Factory turns a Fazer 750 into a dirt track-inspired fun machine… In the mid 1980s, Yamaha introduced the FZX750 Fazer, also known as the “Baby V-Max.” While the styling echoed that of the company’s […]
Fangster Tracker: Harley Sportster 1200
A Harley Nightster grows fangs… As the name suggests, the Harley-Davidson Sportster has long remained the lightest, most performance-oriented machine in the Motor Co.’s lineup, a V-twin iron horse that’s served as everything from boulevard […]
Streamlined XT: 1980 Yamaha XT500
Black Cycles Australia builds a streamlined XT for Retromotive… If you’ve been following BikeBound for any length of time, you know we’re big fans of the Yamaha XT500. Not only did the 500cc single win […]
Free Smells: Yamaha RD350 Hillclimber
Introduced for the 1973 model year, the Yamaha RD350 was destined to become one of the most beloved and popular two-stroke sport motorcycles in history. For $900, you could bring home a 39-hp two-stroke reed-valve […]
Pink Lipstick #2: Royal Enfield BTR Flat Tracker
One of our favorite happenings in all of the motorcycle racing is Royal Enfield’s Build.Train.Race program: “The first all-woman initiative teaching women to build & race their own motorcycle. The Build.Train.Race. program highlights women […]
Gas & Retro: BMW Airhead Street Tracker
Slovenia’s Gas&Retro builds an R80 street tracker… The BMW “airheads” are some of the most iconic motorcycles of all time — modern classics that have won the Paris-Dakar Rally, raced in AMA Superbike, circumnavigated the […]
Production Unibike: BMW R OneT
BMW Motorrad has announced plans to fund development of their BMW R OneT and R1250GS One Wheel concepts with production aimed for early 2023. First shown in 2019, the one-wheeled BMW concept bike utilized a […]
Descending Dragon II: BMW R75/5 “HaLong 2.0”
Destined for Handbuilt Show ’22: DT Motoworks’ Slash 5… The 1970 BMW R75/5 (“Slash 5”) was a landmark machine for the company, whose motorcycle designs had become dated in the years since WWII, still in […]
