Cafe Racers, Scramblers, Trackers, and Bratstyle
Honda’s 400cc “Experimental 2-Stroke” Baja 1000 / Dakar Rally Bike… In the mid-1990s, as emissions regulations tightened worldwide and the future of two-stroke off-road bikes looked increasingly uncertain, Honda did something nobody expected: it built […]
For Sale: The Original 1968 Honda CB750 Sandcast Prototype… This week is the annual Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction, where more than 2000 historic, vintage, custom, racing, and just plain interesting motorcycles are slated to […]
Two Classic Rally-Raid Bikes from a Father-Son Rally Racing Team… Today the Dakar Rally takes place each year in Saudi Arabia. While the landscapes and competition remain as epic as ever, there are those of […]
A Frame-Swapped Retro-Enduro Scrambler from Solace Motorcycle… The Honda Tiger (GL200) was a ~200cc SOHC machine produced and sold for many years in the Indonesia market. It was intended not as a small commuter, but […]
“Grind Glitter” Flat Tracker from Shakin’ Speed Graphix… The Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show (HCS) — organized by Mooneyes, the legendary Japanese hot-rod brand — is one of the most prestigious custom culture shows on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Greg Gilson’s 1980 Honda XLS 125 “War Machine”… Today we’re back with a follow-up piece about the 1980 Honda XL125S desert racer of Greg Gilson (@greggils42), whose 2025 Baja 1000 experience we profiled in our […]
“Even if this race is hell, I am super motivated to go back there and do some wheelies in front of Satan! Haha!” The 58th running of the Baja 1000 — “the Mother of […]
