From Superslab to Singletrack: A Lightweight Yamaha T7 from SPKS Lab… The Yamaha Ténéré 700 (T7) represents something of an answered prayer for ADV riders who’d been wishing for a modern, affordable, streamlined middleweight adventure […]
Tag: Australia
Dream Thumper: CCM 500 Four-Valve Works Replica
1 of 29: ’79 CCM 500 Four-Valve Works Replica Moto-Crosser… CCM (Clews Competition Machines) remains one of the most revered names in the history of off-road motorcycles. In the early 1970s, when two-strokes dominated motocross […]
Big Red Pig: Honda XR650R Restomod
Flash Red: 1985-Style “XR680R” Backdate from Down Under… Introduced some 25 years ago, the Honda XR650R is widely recognized as the greatest Baja bike ever built. Designed to succeed the air-cooled XR600R and dethrone Kawasaki’s […]
Enduro Brick: BMW K100 Street Scrambler
Black Cycles Australia builds a John Player Brick… The BMW K100 — aka the “Flying Brick” — remains one of the more peculiar designs to roll out of the Bavarian Motor Works factory. Conceived […]
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 […]
Stay Gold: Honda GL1200 Goldwing Café Racer
Aspencade to Café: Black Cycles Australia’s Goldwing Cafe Racer… Today we think of the Honda Goldwing as the quintessential big touring bike — a roadgoing La-Z-Boy loaded with creature comforts of every kind, capable of […]
Holy Smoke: Suzuki GT750 Street Tracker
“Intoxicating in the best kind of way…” In the late 1960s, Japanese motorcycles were quickly evolving from utilitarian transportation into sporting machines that put a premium on performance and acceleration. Honda introduced the CB750 — […]
SR400 Reborn: Yamaha “SR540MX” Tracker
The People’s Choice: 540cc Dirt Tracker from GM Motorcycles… The Yamaha SR400 remains one of the most beloved machines in motorcycling. It arrived on the scene in 1978 as an easy to ride single-cylinder street […]
Harley-Davidson Pan America “Super Scrambler”
Black Cycles Australia scrambles Harley’s adventure bike… In 2020, the Harley-Davidson Pan America arrived as the first all-American adventure bike, packing a 1250cc 150-hp “Revolution Max” V-twin and electronically-adjustable Showa suspension. The motorcycling world was […]
Back from the Shed: Honda CB750K Café Racer
Worth the Wait: CB750 from Black Cycles Australia… For every lovely vintage bike you see cruising the backroads, parked up at the local tavern, or racing the track on Sunday, there are scores of abandoned […]
