Long-Travel R NineT Adventure Bike from Loose Screw x R9T ADV… When BMW launched the R nineT in 2014, they wanted to honor 90 years of BMW Motorrad with an 1170cc air/oil-cooled retro roadster that […]
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80s-Style Electric: Black Tea Bonfire
Electric Runabout from Munich’s Loose Screw… Viktor of Black Tea Motorbikes designed, developed, and assembled his first prototype while still a university student. He originally intended to build what would be an e-bike without pedals, […]
Street-Legal Smoker: Yamaha MX360
Streetable Endurocrosser from Germany’s Loose Screw… In 1968, Yamaha hit a home run with the original DT-1 250 — an affordable, lightweight, street-legal two-stroke dirt bike that not only sold out in short order, […]
Street Sweet, Dirt Worthy: Honda XL500 by Loose Screw
“Street sweet. Dirt worthy. Good time transportation…” That’s how Honda described their lineup of XL dual-purpose motorcycles in their big 1979 magazine advertisement. The ’79 Honda XL500S was the “New King Single” of the bunch, […]
