Modern Café Racer, Scaled Down… With the recent discontinuation of the beloved Thruxton 1200, many riders assumed Triumph’s long-running café racer lineage had reached its conclusion — we among them. However, Triumph just announced that […]
Tag: Exclusives
Baja 1000-Winning Honda CRF450X Desert Racer
The Bike That Won Baja: SLR Racing’s CRF450X… The Baja 1000 is one of the most grueling and revered off-road races in the world — a marathon of speed, physical endurance, and mechanical resilience that […]
Alps Edition: Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE
Plug-n-Play: Scrambler 1200 Custom “MotoKit” from Crooked Motorcycles… In terms of modern production scramblers, nothing really matches the Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE. While most bikes of this genre are little more than stylistic exercises, the […]
Patina A-Plenty: 1970 Triumph Trophy T25W Desert Sled
Triumph Trophy 250 Desert Sled from Scott Verrall… The Triumph Trophy T25W (W for ‘Woodsman’) — aka the Trophy 250 — was a lightweight single-cylinder scrambler born from the company’s tight relationship with BSA. The […]
Desert Queen: Honda NXR750 Paris-Dakar Rally Bike
Honda’s NXR750: Queen of the Desert… Few motorcycles in history can claim to have dominated the most brutal race on earth the way Honda’s NXR750 did. Built specifically to conquer the Paris-Dakar Rally, the NXR750 […]
Born in the Dirt, Built for the Street: Triumph Tracker 400
Triumph announces the Tracker 400, coming in 2026… Here at BikeBound, we’re big fans of flat and street trackers, so it piqued our interest this week when Triumph announced a new addition to their 2027 […]
Baja-Spec Honda XR650R from a Factory Dakar Rider
Desert-Ready XR650R from Factory Honda Rally Racer Skyler Howes… Introduced in 2000, the Honda XR650R is widely regarded as the “King of Baja.” Honda developed the machine expressly to dominate desert racing, and dominate it […]
“Sputnik” Yamaha DT175 Flat Tracker
Ready to Orbit: Two-Stroke Flat Tracker from Vintage Sykles… Pete Sykes of Worcester, Pennsylvania, was an avid flat track racer back in the 1970s. Following the loss of his best friend on the track, he […]
Beach Runner: “Kellyx” Kawasaki KLX250S
A Baja-inspired Homage to Japanese Dirt Bikes… In 2006, Kawasaki introduced the KLX250S as their new quarter-liter dual-sport, featuring a DOHC four-valve single-cylinder engine, inverted forks, and a wet weight of under 300 pounds. While […]
Turbo Dirt Bike: GasGas MC450F Factory Edition
Turbocharged GasGas 450 Motocrosser: “Like Riding a Lightning Bolt…” The GasGas MC450F Factory Edition is a limited-edition, race-ready motocross bike that boasts factory-spec WP suspension, Akrapovič exhaust, Factory Racing wheels, app-based tuning, and Troy Lee […]
