Cafe Racers, Scramblers, Trackers, and Bratstyle
Thornton Hundred builds a 200+bhp, 10-second Bobber… The Triumph Bonneville Bobber debuted in 2017, featuring an adjustable solo seat, softail-style monoshock suspension, and a 1200cc liquid-cooled “high-torque” (HT) parallel twin good for 77 hp and […]
White Helmets veteran Oli Blount builds one stunning tribute machine… For nearly a century, the Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team — better known as the White Helmets — was a team of soldiers from the […]
Colorado’s Shaz Sedighzadeh builds a McQueen-inspired Scrambler… Whether you have a single motorcycle or a stable, it’s nice to have that one bike that you can always count on — the one that always fires […]
Ace Classics builds a faithful replica of Bud Ekins’s desert sled… James Sherwin “Bud” Ekins was an accomplished motocross, desert, and enduro racer from Southern California who would become one of Hollywood’s most famous stuntmen, […]
In 1971, Triumph introduced a new oil-in-frame Bonneville, whose steel chassis held the bike’s oil in its 3-inch diameter backbone instead of a separate oil bag. These “Oilers” would also get a 5-speed gearbox, a […]
Best of British: Cheney / Triumph Tiger Cub built to battle the two-strokes… If you dig very far into the history of motocross and scrambles, you’re sure to come across the name Eric Cheney, an […]
MJH Performance Bikes builds a reproduction of Triumph’s first factory custom… In the late 60s, BSA Group was struggling. Though their BSA Rocket 3 and Triumph Trident triples set several speed and distance records at […]
“It’ll eat Panigales for breakfast.” About three years ago, we featured a Ducati 900SS cafe racer from a 22-year-old builder out of the UK, Jody Millhouse of Thornton Hundred Motorcycles. A couple of killer builds […]
Not a Desert Sled: Street-legal vintage Triumph motocrosser! In 1963, the Triumph T120 Bonneville received an all-new 650cc unit-construction engine — it was lighter, stronger, easier to build/maintain, and remains one of motorcycling history’s best-looking […]
