Vic Shield helps a good mate ride again… The Suzuki T500 — known as the Cobra, Titan, or Charger — appeared in 1968, marketed as the “the sports cycle that couldn’t be made.” At the […]
Tag: 500cc
Killer Bee: Yamaha TT500 Scrambler
Aluminum-Clad Vinduro from FONK Motorcycle… In the mid 1970s, Yamaha’s market research showed that American ranchers and off-road riders were interested in a replacement for the British single-cylinder scramblers of yesteryear. BSA and the other […]
Yankee 500Z: 488cc Two-Stroke Twin Enduro
The 488cc Dick Mann-Developed Two-Stroke Twin Desert Racer and Enduro… In the late 1960s, before “adventure bike” was even a phrase, a small company in Schenectady, New York set out to build something radically different: […]
Faber Beezer: 1968 BSA B44 Victor Competition Scrambler
500cc Pre-68 Scrambles Bike from Chopping Paint & Body… In 1966, BSA released the B44 series, which featured a new 441cc four-stroke engine developed by the company’s Competition Department. They’d taken the 343cc B40, which […]
Ultra Lightweight 500: TT-Powered Yamaha XT500 Street Tracker
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 […]
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 […]
