The Powerful One: Animal Motor Company x Amarillo Motorcycles In 2008, Harley-Davidson released the XR1200, the most performance-tuned Sportster the factory had ever produced. Inspired by the legendary XR750 — “the most successful race bike […]
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Super Single: Honda FX650 “Stormbringer”
Bandisca builds a big-single street racer… In the late 90s, Honda introduced the FX650 Vigor as a stripped-down, street-oriented version of the popular NX650 Dominator dual-purpose machine. The bike had Honda’s 644cc RFVC single-cylinder engine, […]
Restomod Thumper: Yamaha SR400 by DOTi Motorcycle
JDM Motard: A big single streetbike from Vietnam… The Yamaha SR400 has been available in the Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) since 1978, originally developed as a street-oriented spinoff of the legendary XT500 enduro. To comply […]
Bavarian Blackout: BMW R80 by Burn Up Company
BUC It: Burn Up Company’s burly BMW, built for sidecar adventures… In the mid-1980s, BMW replaced the twin-shock rear suspension on their airhead models with a monolever (single-shock) system, whose asymmetric design was meant to […]
Bantamweight Bobber: Honda Rebel 250 “Toshiko”
Joseph Friday (Friday’s The Bomb) builds one agile 250 bobber… The Honda Rebel 250 (aka CMX250C) first appeared in 1984 — a lightweight 234cc parallel-twin cruiser that would remain in production until 2016! A common […]
White Motorcycle Concepts WMC250EV Land Speeder
“I’ve always been obsessed with speed.” These are the words of Robert White, whose passion for two-wheeled performance can be traced back to his boyhood, when he raced BMX at a British national level. By […]
White Helmets Tribute: Triumph Bonneville T100 “No.2”
White Helmets veteran Oli Blount builds one stunning tribute machine… For nearly a century, the Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team — better known as the White Helmets — was a team of soldiers from the […]
Orange Crush: Yamaha RD350LC Hybrid
Dusty Miller builds an electric orange giant-killer… The Yamaha RD350LC was the first liquid-cooled evolution of the RD series, which appeared in 1980 to succeed the air-cooled RD400. It had the same bore and stroke […]
Trusty Steed: McQueen-Inspired Triumph Scrambler
Colorado’s Shaz Sedighzadeh builds a McQueen-inspired Scrambler… Whether you have a single motorcycle or a stable, it’s nice to have that one bike that you can always count on — the one that always fires […]
BMW R NineT Scrambler by FCR Original
The BMW R nineT was designed as a “blank canvas for customizing.” The subframe, headlight, and taillights can be easily unbolted, and bike has separate engine and chassis wiring harnesses. The roadster styling puts a […]
