From Eric Dean Design: Yamaha XT500 Meets Suzuki TL1000R… The street-legal Yamaha XT500 and its off-road sibling, the TT500, quickly made a name for themselves in the late 1970s. Not only did they win […]
Tag: 500cc
Royal Enfield Classic 500 Trials Bike
STG Tracker builds a Trials-inspired Enfield 500… More than 75 years ago, the 1948 G2 350 Bullet debuted as the first motorcycle with an articulating swingarm, destined to become one of the best-selling Enfields […]
Black Bullet: Royal Enfield Bullet 500 Café Racer
Prize-Winning “Black Bullet” from Nicolas Baux of MCNC… The Royal Enfield Bullet is nearing a century of continuous production — the longest of any motorcycle model in history. Introduced in 1932, the four-stroke single-cylinder machine […]
Yamaha SR500 Tracker from “Kid McQueen”
A 70s-inspired SR500 tracker from 20-year-old Moritz Bree… Back in 2016, a 12-year-old custom phenom from Austria, Moritz Bree, came onto the scene. He was involved in designing custom bikes for Free Spirits and Zaeta, […]
Built for the Himalayan Foothills: Royal Enfield Classic 500 “Trials Scrambler”
MotoExotica’s Classic 500, built for the Indian Himalayas… In 2009 Royal Enfield launched the Classic 350 and Classic 500, single-cylinder street bikes inspired by the Bullet 350 of the late 1940s. Both new models […]
Electric Boogie: Yamaha XT500 Restomod
Electric Start, Air-Cooled: Motogadgets’ 1980 Yamaha XT500… By the early 1970s, the big single-cylinder four-stroke off-roader was thought a species all but extinct. After all, the great British 500 singles like the BSA B50 […]
Triple XL: Three Honda XL500 Motocrossers!
GPgarage Moto builds a trio of four-stroke Honda motocrossers… Introduced in 1979, the Honda XL500 would become one of the most successful dual-purpose bikes of the era, combining a 32-hp version of the XR500 engine […]
Neo Café Racer: Honda CBR500R “Yoru”
“Life is too short to ride something ordinary.” In 1988, the Japanese anime film Akira hit theaters — it was destined to become a modern cult classic, widely regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi / […]
Yamaha “SRXT500” Vinduro by 86 Gear
From Street to Scrambler… By 1971, BSA and Matchless had both gone out of business, and with them the British 500 singles whose torque and character had proved perfect for such a wide variety of […]
Carbon Caballero: Fantic 500 Street Tracker
A fully carbon Caballero from Scotland… Fantic Motor was founded in Italy in 1968, and the company soon earned a reputation for their lightweight mopeds, enduros, and trials motorcycles. Fantic’s 50cc and 125cc “chopper” mopeds […]
