Speed & Crafts Performance Winner: The Fangster Street Glide… What’s a performance bagger? To some, the phrase might seem an oxymoron, but the craze for V-twin touring models with high-performance brakes, suspension, and engine […]
Tag: Taiwan
Tai Chi: Kymco KTR 150 Tracker
Shimotor builds a 150cc custom tracker… Lately, we’ve been seeing more and more custom builds coming out of Taiwan. Rough Crafts and 2Loud Customs have been widely known in the customs world for years, but […]
“Smoke, Noise, Speed” — Suzuki GT250 Street Tracker!
Tough Tracker builds a two-stroke ripper! In the 1970s, competition in the 250 two-stroke class was especially fierce, as 17-year-olds could ride 250cc machines in the UK — and of course, every budding street racer […]
The Final Exam: Aeon 150 Street Tracker
A young mechanic’s final test to work at KenKen Moto! Aeon Motor is a Taiwanese company that began manufacturing motorcycle parts in 1970 and started building their own ATVs, scooters, and mini-bikes for European and […]
Fangster Tracker: Harley Sportster 1200
A Harley Nightster grows fangs… As the name suggests, the Harley-Davidson Sportster has long remained the lightest, most performance-oriented machine in the Motor Co.’s lineup, a V-twin iron horse that’s served as everything from boulevard […]
Reckless Racer: 190cc BMX Scrambler!
S.M.F. x Mooneyes Taiwan build a 190cc BMX for Reckless Race… For so many builders we talk to, their love of motorcycles started with bicycles, especially BMX (Bicycle Motocross). That should come as no surprise, […]
Super Sportster: “TS-05” Harley XR1200
Ching Tsung Custom Bikes puts the “Sport” in Sportster… Inspired by the legendary XR750, the Harley-Davidson XR1200 was the most performance-oriented Sportster ever produced, a factory street tracker whose 1202cc high-compression V-twin put down 91 […]
Custom Brotherhood: Night Shift Motorcycle Club (NSMC)
“Single Cylinder Americanos” from members of Night Shift Motorcycle Club (NSMC)… Last year, we featured a KTR 150 street tracker from a Taiwanese university student, Eric, who’s a member of Taiwan’s Night Shift Motorcycle Club. […]
“Tyrant” Yamaha XSR700 by Hoo-Bue
Back to the Dark Side… The Yamaha XSR700 is a retro-inspired naked bike that incorporates styling cues from the classic Yamaha XS650 with the modern technology of the FZ-07/MT-07 — a perennial favorite among new […]
Humble Beast: KTR 150 Street Tracker
Here in the States and many other countries around the world, we sometimes take for granted the freedom we have to customize our motorcycles. In Switzerland, for instance, there are very strict regulations that prohibit […]
