Alp Racing & Design builds a nitro-fueled 182 193-mph Vincent LSR… Legend has it, Vincent engineer Phil Irving was working in his office one day when he noticed a pair of tracings of Vincent 500cc […]
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Super Single: Yamaha SR500 Cafe Racer by Spero Floro
Truck mechanic Spero Floro builds one hot thumper… The Yamaha SR500 remains one of the world’s most beloved singles, a street version of the iconic XT500 enduro. When a street bike begins life as a […]
Back to Dirt: Yamaha XSR700 TT Scrambler
Elemental Rides x Capelos Garage build an IT-inspired XSR… Yamaha Yard Built program commissions talented builders from all over the world to transform modern Yamaha street bikes into “Yard Built” specials — a way to […]
Sportster 883R “Urus” Project
“The feeling of riding is close to the feeling of riding a bull.” The urus, aka aurochs, is an extinct species of wild long-horned cattle that once roamed the prehistoric grasslands of Eurasia and beyond […]
All The Little, Big Details: Honda CL350 Scrambler
Slipstream Creations builds a more versatile, capable Honda Scrambler… Introduced in 1969, the Honda CL350 was the factory scrambler version of the CB350 twin, one of Honda’s most successful machines. The 324cc, 33-horsepower parallel-twin engine […]
Trail Reaper: CB175-Powered Honda Mini Trail
CB175-powered CT70 built by a team of Wisconsin high-schoolers! The Honda CT70 — aka Trail 70 — hit the US market in 1969, a dual-purpose minibike with a 72cc four-stroke engine and three-speed semiautomatic transmission. […]
Meet “Karen” — ’77 Ironhead by RoastWorthy Cycles
Baby Dresser to Dirt Road Ripper in $2000 … Way back in 1957, the very first Harley-Davidson Sportsters to roll out of the factory were powered by the now-iconic Ironhead engine, a two-valve push-rod V-twin […]
2020 Comeback: The Steward Baylor Story
One of the best two-wheeled stories of 2020… This past September, we ventured up to West Virginia to ride some of the 700+ miles of the Hatfield-McCoy Trails in the southern part of the state […]
Supercharged Honda GL1000 Goldwing
Railman Mark Nevitt builds a supercharged Goldwing! Introduced in 1974, the Honda GL1000 Goldwing was the first Japanese production motorcycle to boast a liquid-cooled four-stroke engine — a 999cc flat-four that gave the 600-lb touring […]
The Best Bikes for Scrambler Builds
Scramblers are one of our favorite types of motorcycles here at BikeBound. The origin of the term goes back to 1920s England, when shed and garage builders would modify their primitive road-going motorcycles for cross-country […]
