“Single Cylinder Americanos” from members of Night Shift Motorcycle Club (NSMC)… Last year, we featured a KTR 150 street tracker from a Taiwanese university student, Eric, who’s a member of Taiwan’s Night Shift Motorcycle Club. […]
Tag: Bobbers
Urban Fighter: Yamaha V-Max by Motocrew
Old-school V4 muscle meets 21st-century style… Introduced in 1984, the original Yamaha V-Max was the ultimate muscle bike, a two-wheeled hot rod boasting an 1198cc liquid-cooled V4 that made a pavement-buckling 145 horsepower and 90 […]
A Sharper Shovel: ’75 Harley-Davidson Shovelhead
Yuji Maeda of MMM Products streamlines the Shovel he’s owned for 22+ years… The Harley-Davidson Shovelhead engine appeared in 1966, the Motor Company’s third OHV V-twin after the Knucklehead and Panhead. The new engine […]
Bob Job: Harley XG500 Bobber by Augment Motorworks
New-school meets old-school in this Street 500 budget bobber… In 2014, Harley-Davidson introduced their first all-new lightweight models since the 1970s, the liquid-cooled Street series. Both models, the Street 750 (XG750) and Street 500 (XG500), […]
The FU Pan: ’57 Harley Panhead by Schmidt Motos
A Panhead chopper with one-off stainless steel frame and springer forks… The Harley-Davidson “Panhead” engine was produced from 1948-1965, earning its nickname for the signature rocker covers, which resemble a pair of pie pans. Available […]
Super Sleek: BMW R100S “ØD2” by Ønix Design
A Spanish industrial designer builds an incredibly sleek airhead… The BMW R100 was the largest, most powerful incarnation of the legendary airhead series, featuring a 980cc flat-twin boxer engine that produced 60-70 horsepower. Not only […]
Sportster 883R “Urus” Project
“The feeling of riding is close to the feeling of riding a bull.” The urus, aka aurochs, is an extinct species of wild long-horned cattle that once roamed the prehistoric grasslands of Eurasia and beyond […]
Old East Metal: MZ ETZ 250 (350cc) Bobber
A two-stroke bobber from the founding city of MZ… MZ, which stands for Motorenwerke Zschopau (Zschopau Engine Works), began building motorcycles in 1922, making them one of the world’s oldest motorcycle manufacturers, and the factory […]
High-Spec: BMW R100-HS by Magnum Opus
The BMW R100 was the last and most powerful of the beloved airheads, boasting a 980cc air-cooled boxer engine that made 70 horsepower at 7000 rpm. When BMW Motorrad tried to cease production in the […]
1976 BMW R90/6 Bobber by Burn Up Company
The BMW R90/6 was the largest and most powerful of the Slash-Six models introduced in 1974, designed to up the ante in a horsepower-hungry market. The old R75 engine was bored-out to 898cc, good for […]
