Cafe Racers, Real Racers, and Superbikes… The Handbuilt Show in one of the best motorcycle shows on the planet, celebrating hand-built machinery in a world that seems to be hurtling toward the virtual, digital, and […]
Tag: Sportbikes
Lil Scrapper: Ninja 250R Scrambler
Vintage Sykles builds a firefighter a tough 250 Ninja… In 2008, Kawasaki unveiled a completely new version of their best-selling sportbike, the Ninja 250R. The baby Ninja has long been a favorite of both new […]
Bologna Bullet: Ducati 1098S Café Racer
Super Café: Badass Factory’s 160-hp Café Racer… In 2007, Ducati introduced the 1098, also known as the “Ten-Nine-Eight” — a 1099cc liquid-cooled V-twin superbike that boasted 160 horsepower and a top speed of 174 mph. […]
Neo Café Racer: Honda CBR500R “Yoru”
“Life is too short to ride something ordinary.” In 1988, the Japanese anime film Akira hit theaters — it was destined to become a modern cult classic, widely regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi / […]
Motor Valley Missile: Ducati 1000SS
Simone Conti Motorcycles builds an alloy-clad Italian rocket… Italy’s “Motor Valley” — aka Terra dei Motori (Land of Motors) — boasts an incredibly high concentration of iconic car, motorcycle, and motorsports names: Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, […]
Super V: Aprilia RSV Mille Special by Jett Design
Jett Design builds a lightweight Aprilia restomod… In 1998, Aprilia unveiled their first large displacement sports motorcycle, the RSV Mille — a 998cc V-twin superbike whose liquid-cooled, fuel-injected Rotax engine boasted 128 horsepower and 78 […]
Farewell VTR: Honda VTR1000 by Francis Von Tuto
For Sale: 1000cc V-Twin “FTVR” from Francis Von Tuto… In the 1990s, Carl Fogarty had been putting the hammer down on the Japanese fours in World Superbike, piloting his booming Ducati to four championships. Riders […]
Devil’s Made ‘Busa: Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa
Introduced in 1999, the 174-hp Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa took the title as the fastest production motorcycle of the 20th century, hitting up to 194 mph in unrestricted form. Hayabusa is Japanese for peregrine falcon — […]
Big Kat: WSBK-Spec GSX-R1000 “Katana”
Team Classic Suzuki builds a Katana with 200-hp WSBK underpinnings! Team Classic Suzuki, sponsored by Suzuki’s official vintage parts program, fields some very trick vintage machinery in classic racing series around Europe and beyond. “The […]
Unholy Roller: ’86 Suzuki GSX-R750
Cole Parnell resurrects a first-gen GSX-R750 Slabby… In 1985, the world received the original Suzuki GSX-R750, a lightweight aluminum-framed race replica that would set the standard for modern inline-four sportbikes. “With a clean sheet of […]
