A Japanese-Italian love story from Black Cycles Australia… Introduced in 1977, the Honda CB400T was the successor to the CB360. Better known as the Honda Hawk (US) or Dream (UK), the twin-cylinder CB400 offered a […]
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Dirt Weapon: 856cc Royal Enfield Himalayan
A 70+ hp Himalayan Twin from SurfSide Motorcycle Garage… Royal Enfield introduced the Himalayan in 2018, a lightweight adventure / dual-sport bike that featured an air-cooled 411cc single-cylinder engine. In a market where machines seem […]
Two-Stroke Corner Carver: KTM 300 SALT Café Racer
SALT Motorcycles introduces a 52-hp, 245-pound two-stroke café racer… The KTM 300 EXC TPI is one of the world’s most accomplished enduro machines, a lightweight modern two-stroke with Transfer Port Injection and a dry weight […]
GRID Cycles: Zero SR Street Tracker
“We want to get people excited about electric motorcycles.” Love them or hate them, electric motorcycles are going to be part of the two-wheeled future. Kawasaki has announced plans to go all-electric by 2035 in […]
Honda CBX “1098R” by MotoRRetro
A CBX1000 cafe racer from Sydney’s MotoRRetro… In 1966, Mike “The Bike” Hailwood won the 250cc Gran Prix championship on one of the most radical machines of the era, Honda’s RC166 six-cylinder racer. Designed to […]
Super Dream: Honda CB250N by Sabotage Motorcycles
Sweet 250cc roadster from Sydney, Australia… In 1978, Honda introduced the CB250N Super Dream, a 27-hp air-cooled parallel twin touted as a modern incarnation of the original 1960 CB72 Dream. At 249cc, the bike satisfied […]
Aberg Tribute: Yamaha HL500 Restomod
Se7en Six Collective builds a fitting tribute to the late Bengt Aberg… In 1975, Yamaha introduced the single-cylinder four-stroke XT500, a dual-purpose “enduro-adventure” motorcycle that would win the first two Paris-Dakar Rallies and lay the […]
Turbo Tracker: Kawasaki KZ440 by Slyfox Customs
“Words can’t describe the sound this thing makes as it comes onto boost.” Back in 1974, Kawasaki built a plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, to produce their new KZ400 twin, becoming the first foreign manufacturer to […]
Salt Beeza: 1948 BSA B33 Land Speed Bike
British workhorse goes land-speeding on an Australian dry lake… In 1947, BSA introduced the 500cc “all-iron” B33, one of their first new singles to appear in the wake of World War II. It was based […]
Boulevard Bobber: Suzuki S40 by Kennedy Motorcycles
Back in 1986, Suzuki unveiled their first cruiser, the LS650 Savage, which would remain in production until 2004, relatively unchanged except for the addition of a 5-speed transmission. For 2005, the air-cooled 652cc single-cylinder cruiser […]
