Two-Stroke Scooter Racing with Rocket Race Club… While our focus here at BikeBound might be motorcycles, we have a soft spot for just anything with two wheels — especially if it’s fast. In our coverage […]
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Big Suzy: Suzuki DR800 Big Scrambler
Unik Edition scrambles DR Big… In 1990, Suzuki released the DR800 Big, the largest mass-production single-cylinder dual-sport ever available to the buying public. The “dashing desert styling” came straight from the mighty DR-Zeta Paris-Dakar bike, […]
High-Power Roadster: Triumph Thruxton RS
Thruxton 1200 RS “Classic Roadster” from FCR Original… Introduced in 2020, the Thruxton RS pushed the performance envelope of Triumph’s production café racer even farther, boasting 104 horsepower from the 1200cc “High Power” parallel-twin […]
Canyon Runner: ATK 605 Street Tracker
Street-Legal Dirt Tracker from Vintage Sykles… Austrian-born engineer, Grand Prix motocross racer, and ISDT gold medalist Horst Leitner founded ATK in 1985 after relocating to the United States. The name derived from Leitner’s patented […]
Showstopper: Honda CB750 Restomod Café
A Show-Stopping 750 Super Sport from Never Ending Cycles… Ask anybody who builds custom motorcycles for a living, and they’ll tell you the client has a pretty significant impact on how much they enjoy a […]
GRMTO Street Tracker: Triumph Scrambler 1200 XE
Triumph 1200 Street Tracker from Gas&Retro… The Triumph Scrambler 1200 was the first modern production scrambler to nail both ends of the spectrum: form and function. Here was a scrambler that could boast true off-road […]
Naked Gamma: Custom Suzuki RG500
“A screaming riot of two-stroke lunacy” from ETTO Motorcycles… Introduced in 1985, the Suzuki RG500 Gamma was closely patterned after Suzuki’s 500cc Grand Prix bikes, which had earned four world titles and 50 GP victories […]
Aluminum XS: Yamaha XS650 Chopper
Hand-Built XS650 Chopper from Prama Motorworks… The Yamaha XS650 is one of the best-loved, most versatile Japanese motorcycles of the air-cooled era. In a time when the old British marques were filing bankruptcy and shuttering […]
Powerhouse on Wheels: Fangster Performance Bagger
Speed & Crafts Performance Winner: The Fangster Street Glide… What’s a performance bagger? To some, the phrase might seem an oxymoron, but the craze for V-twin touring models with high-performance brakes, suspension, and engine […]
Yellow Addiction: Yamaha R5 Street Tracker
Scott Pickett’s “Classic American Street Tracker”… Introduced in 1970, the Yamaha R5 350 was the predecessor of the storied RD twins that smoked their way into the hearts of a generation. While the RD series […]