From Purpose Built Moto: The Ultimate Adventure Sportster Scrambler… Back in 2019-2020, Tom Gilroy of Australia’s Purpose Built Moto faced the challenge of building a custom scrambler capable of handling one very strenuous cross-country test […]
Tag: Scramblers
ROEG Rider: Yamaha MT-07 Street Tracker
Up for Auction: Yamaha 700 Street Tracker by Luuc Muis Creations… The Yamaha MT-07 — known as the FZ-07 from 2015-2017 in North America — is a 689cc parallel-twin naked bike that’s proved popular on […]
The Handbuilt Motorcycle Show 2022: All 150 Bikes!
The 2023 Handbuilt Motorcycle Show is coming up April 14-16 at the Austin American-Statesman on historic South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas — the very same weekend as the Red Bull Grand Prix of the […]
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 […]
Monkey Business: Honda Z50 Custom
Moto Adonis builds a meaner Monkey… As the story goes, the original Honda Monkey was created for a Honda-owned amusement park in Hino, Japan — a Tokyo suburb: “It was called Tama Tech Park, and […]
Rahier Replica: BMW R1150GSA Marlboro Edition
From Ormotors: A Modern Tribute to Gaston Rahier’s Dakar-winning BMW… In 1985, Belgian rider Gaston Rahier campaigned the Paris Dakar Rally on a massive factory-built BMW R80GS sponsored by Marlboro and Playboy — a bike […]
Angry RT: Custom BMW R1150RT Roadster
From Full Dress to Naked Muscle… Introduced in 2001, the BMW R1150RT was a full-dress tourer with Telelever front suspension, Paralever rear suspension, and an 1130cc air-cooled flat-twin which put out 95 hp and 63 […]
Bultracker 57: 1200 Sportster Scrambler
Francisco Alí Manén of Lord Drake Kustoms is one of those builders who’s successfully made the transition from the heavy chrome choppers so popular in the early 2000s to a much more diverse and eclectic […]
Harley vs The Desert: Sportsters at the Mint 400!
BikeBound sponsors Good Times Racing Family’s Mint 400 “Bajarley”… This weekend is the 55th running of the Mint 400, the “oldest and most prestigious off-road race in America,” held each March in the treacherous foothills […]
Memory Maker: Honda Dominator 650
Fit for a Prince: Ellaspede’s Honda NX650 Dominator… Ellaspede is one of our favorite builders not just in Australia, but worldwide. The workshop started as a small home garage operation, which went under (literally) with […]
