It’s time for another round of coverage from the 2025 Bike Shed Moto Show, which boasted more than 250 custom bikes and 20,000 visitors. As in recent years, the show took place at London’s East […]
Tag: Desert Sleds
Mushman Runner: Yamaha XS650 Desert Sled
What if Steve McQueen aka Harvey Mushman decided to build and race an XS650? In a strange twist of fate, the Yamaha XS650, introduced in 1969, took up the standard of the British twins […]
One Moto Show 2025: Best Scramblers, Trackers, & Fighters
Straight Outta PDX: Scramblers, Trackers, Streetfighters, and more! The 2025 One Moto Show was the biggest yet, featuring more than 300 custom, rare, vintage, and just plain strange bikes from all over the world. The […]
Spitfire-like Howl: Kawasaki W650 “The Last Sled”
The Last Sled from Dirty Dick’s Motos — For Sale! Several years ago, Rick Hannah of Walton-on-Thames, England, picked up a pair of Kawasaki W650’s for a good price. He soon fell in love with […]
Desert Sledding: Scram Africa 2024
Scramblers travel 1500+ miles across Morocco… For more than a decade, Fuel Motorcycles has organized and led the annual Scram Africa, a 2500-kilometer ride across the breathtakingly epic landscapes of Morocco. Participation is restricted to […]
50 Years in the Making: Rickman Metisse Scrambler
James Russell’s Triumph Trophy-Powered Metisse… In the natural world, they call it imprinting — when a young animal comes to recognize another animal, person, or even a thing as a parent or prime figure of […]
Desert Shred: Custom Ducati Desert Sled
Scram Africa Sled from Cid Motorcycles… When the new Ducati Scrambler hit the market in 2015, it received a warm reception as a retro street bike, but it was no off-roader. As with many of […]
’49 Big Bear Scrambler: Triumph TR5 Trophy
A Spring-Frame, Square-Barrel TR5 Trophy from Ton Up Classics… In the 1950s, Triumph dealer Bill Martin designed a spring frame for desert racing in Southern California. Production began in 1952, while Triumph wouldn’t offer […]
El Jalapeño: Suzuki GN125 Desert Sled
A 125cc Desert Sled from BCKustoms, perfect for the Spanish desert… The quintessential desert sled is a post-war British twin stripped to the barest essentials with a high exhaust, skid plate, metal fenders, fat […]
City Sled: ’71 Triumph TR6R Tiger “Black Bike”
From Freeland Motorcycles: “The clean cut brother of a desert sled”… The Triumph TR6R “Tiger 650” was the single-carb version of the mighty Bonneville twin — a bike that had become synonymous with power […]
