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Honda CBX1000 Cafe Racer

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 CBX1000 Restomod Cafe Racer

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 […]

Wildsville Scramble 2021

Wildsville Scramble 2021!

60s-style “Run What Ya Brung” Scramble from Brother Moto & Friends! This past Halloween weekend, we loaded up the van and headed to Butler, Georgia for the inaugural Wildsville Scramble, hosted by our friends from […]

Yamaha TR1 Cafe Racer

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 […]

Honda 100cc Land Speed Racer

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.  […]