Tough Tracker builds a two-stroke ripper! In the 1970s, competition in the 250 two-stroke class was especially fierce, as 17-year-olds could ride 250cc machines in the UK — and of course, every budding street racer […]
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Quarter Miler: ’52 Vincent Rapide Drag Bike!
Vincent drag bike with an engine by Hall of Famer Marty Dickerson! The origin story of the Vincent V-twin is legendary. Designer Phil Irving, while working at his office in Stevenage in 1936, noticed two […]
Built from Zero: Yamaha XJ750 “Bathara”
“Low, Burly, Roaring” — Jowo Kustom’s scratch-built custom… Usually, when we ask a builder what bike served as the donor of a particular project, it’s clear that some major part of the original frame remains […]
A Leaner Bull: “Muccastretta” Ducati 999 Café Racer
Rind Performance streamlines the 999… In 2001, Ducati introduced their new Testastretta (“Narrow Head”) L-twin engine, featuring narrower 25-degree angles between the inlet and exhaust valves, which corresponded with modern F1 four-valve theory. The narrow […]
Black Bird: ’56 Triumph Thunderbird Desert Sled
A Triumph 6T Thunderbird desert sled from Japan! On one of his trips to oversee Triumph operations in the States, Edward Turner — the legendary designer and director of Triumph Motorcycles — had the idea […]
Budget-Built: Yamaha XJ600 Café Racer
Rascal Motorcycles builds an XJ / FJ600 shop bike… Introduced in 1984, the Yamaha XJ600 — sold in North America as the FJ600 — was a middleweight four-cylinder sports bike with a 72-bhp air-cooled engine. […]
The Beast: KTM 990 Rally Bike!
“Crazy Race Animal” — Loko Dream Factory’s KTM rally bike… The KTM 990 Adventure was one serious dual-purpose machine, offering the 999cc LC8 V-twin engine from the fire-breathing Super Duke in a bike with more […]
Austrian Bulldog: Yamaha BT1100 Custom
BT1100 Bulldog from Martin Buchmayr x i-flow… Introduced in 2002, the Yamaha BT1100 Bulldog was quite an interesting machine, a hard-to-classify V-twin roadster with Italian roots: “The Bulldog has been conceived, developed and assembled by […]
Victory Moto Show 2022!
This past weekend was the 6th annual Victory Moto Show in our very own hometown of Savannah, Georgia. Since 2017, founder Anna Heritage Close and her team of “Moto Babes” have assembled each year to […]
Honda NSR500: Street-Legal 500cc GP Bike!
Like Shaving with a Chainsaw: David Howard Racing builds a 500cc Grand Prix bike…for the road. In the modern era of Grand Prix motorcycle racing, nothing can compare to the dominance of the Honda NSR500, […]
