Jean-Michel Atlan’s street tracker, reimagined 40 years later… In 1877, Japanese entrepreneur Torakusu Yamaha, the third son of a samurai of the Kishu-Tokugawa family, founded Nippon Gakki Company in order to manufacturer reed organs. Torakusu’s […]
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Retro Roadsters: Triumph “Ride and Chrome” Twins
FCR Original’s Triumph Speed Twin and T120 Bonneville… These days, the café racers and scramblers of the world seem to get the lion’s share of the limelight, but the roadster remains one of the most […]
Ducati ST3 Café Racer
Modern Ducati Café Racer from Jerem Motorcycles… In 2003, Ducati gave their sport touring series a kick in the pants with the introduction of the ST3, which boasted a new and unique three-valve L-twin […]
Streetfighting Machine: Buell XB12 Custom
Matao Buell: From Bike Shed London to Wheels & Waves… In 2002, Buell Motorcycles stopped production of their tube-framed bikes and introduced a new set of bikes, the Firebolt XB9R / XB12R and Lightning XB9S […]
Super 6 II: Honda CBX Café Racer
Lys Motorcycles builds a six-cylinder café racer… For the 1979 model year, ten years after the introduction of the revolutionary CB750, Honda released another two-wheeled marvel of engineering, the CBX1000 Super Sport. The mighty CBX […]
Modern Super Sport: Ducati 749 Café Racer
Ducati “749SS” by Jerem Motorcycles… Introduced in 2003, the Ducati 749 was the middleweight SuperSport version of the Ducati 999 superbike — one of the most polarizing and controversial designs of the modern era. Though […]
Family Heirloom, Reborn: Honda Shadow 600 Custom
Tumulte transforms a family heirloom for a factory Mercedes AMG driver! Introduced in 1988, the Honda Shadow 600 — aka the VT600 or VLX — was a liquid-cooled V-twin cruiser with a 35° rake and […]
Tumulte Seven Fifty: Honda CB750F2 Café Racer
Introduced in 1992, the Honda CB Seven Fifty — better known as the Nighthawk or CB750F2 in some markets — was an air-cooled retro roadster with a steel cradle frame, twin-shock rear swingarm, conventional air-assisted […]
Kings of Cool: Triumph “Legend” Scramblers
McQueen-inspired Scramblers from FCR Original… More than four decades after his untimely passing, Steve McQueen remains one of the most iconic, influential figures in the world of two wheels. The uninitiated may assume it’s simply […]
Savage 650: 80s-Inspired Royal Enfield GT
Hedgehog Motorcycles gets radical with the GT 650… The history of the Continental GT dates all the way back to 1964, when it was one of the last bikes to roll out of Royal Enfield’s […]
