Viva La One Moto Vegas! After 15 years of successful shows in Portland, The One Motorcycle Show made their Vegas debut earlier this month at The Western, a historic hotel and casino on Fremont Street, […]
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XR750-Inspired Dual-Carb Sportster Street Tracker
XR1200 Street Tracker from Romain Leclerc of Pirates Moto Crew… The Harley-Davidson XR750 remains the most successful racing motorcycle of all time. Introduced in 1970, it won 29 of 37 AMA Grand National Championships […]
Shed Zed: 1396cc Kawasaki Z1 “Super Six”
Six-Cylinder Z1 from Allen Millyard… Lately we’ve been highlighting a few of the mind-blowing shed-built specials from one of the world’s most legendary builders, Allen Millyard. As many of you know, Millyard is a […]
Dakar Dream: Germany to Dakar on 2-Valve Boxers!
Reliving the Paris-Dakar Rally route with SWT Sports… In 1978, 182 vehicles embarked from Paris’s Place du Trocadéro bound for the Senegalese capital of Dakar, a 10,000-kilometer journey that would take them across Algeria, Niger, […]
The Fancy DR: 670cc Suzuki DR650 Supermoto
“Looks like a DR650, handles like a 125 supermoto.” -The Lurkshop The Suzuki DR650 has been in continuous production since 1990, earning a reputation for go-anywhere ruggedness and reliability. The 640cc engine of the first-gen […]
La Taiguer: Triumph Tiger Scrambler
Triumph Tiger 955i Scrambler from FullMoto… In 2001, Triumph introduced the Tiger 955i, an adventure-style bike powered by the great engine of the early Hinckley Triumph years, the liquid-cooled 955cc triple. The three-cylinder engine, which […]
The Z1600: 1600cc Kawasaki V8 Motorcycle
Allen Millyard’s Kawasaki “Z1600” V8 Special… Recently we’ve been doing a number of features on the mind-blowing creations of Allen Millyard. The mild-mannered tea-drinking English gentleman is renowned for constructing bikes around his own shed-built […]
Straight, Low, and Clean: Moto Guzzi Café Racer
Horizontal 923: Le Mans II Café Racer from Vienna’s horizontal moto… Lino Tonti was an Italian motorcycle engineer who developed sport and racing bikes for such companies as Aermacchi, Benelli, Bianchi, F.B. Mondial, and […]
Ready to Race: Yamaha WR450 Street Tracker
Street-Legal 450 Framer from Ted Gail… In flat track racing, a “framer” is a race bike consisting of a purpose-built frame installed with the rider’s engine of choice. In the old days, you often saw […]
Sonauto Edition: Yamaha XTZ750 Super Ténéré
Dakar-inspired Super Ténéré 750 from BIKE Factory… In 1947, famed French racing driver Toto Veuillet founded Saône-Auto (Sonauto), which would become France’s first importer of Porsche cars and Yamaha motorcycles. Sonauto was involved in many […]
