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 […]
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Orange Crush: Yamaha RD350LC Hybrid
Dusty Miller builds an electric orange giant-killer… The Yamaha RD350LC was the first liquid-cooled evolution of the RD series, which appeared in 1980 to succeed the air-cooled RD400. It had the same bore and stroke […]
Prairie Dog: Honda XL600 Desert Sled
Marmisto’s take on the classic Desert Sled – the Prairie Dog There are custom bikes with build sheets that read like expensive shopping lists, outfitting the machine in a dizzying array of high-spec bling, and […]
White Heat: Yamaha RD400 Hybrid
Retired firefighter Dusty Miller builds one hot RD! In 1975, the Yamaha RD400 appeared as the evolution of the RD350, featuring 51cc more displacement, new cases/barrels/head, a new airbox design, and a rubber-mounted engine. “The […]
Two-Stroke Hybritza: Yamaha 350 YPVS Cafe Racer
A project dream for 30+ years! At the Cologne Motorcycle Show in late 1982, Yamaha unveiled their new RD350 YPVS, featuring the breakthrough Yamaha Power Valve System, which utilized a servo motor to change the […]
Race Kat: Suzuki GSX1100 Katana Race Bike
Team Classic Suzuki builds an 1170cc Katana for Endurance Legends… In 1980, Suzuki unveiled the original GSX1100S Katana — a 110-hp machine that would give the world a radical new vision of what a sports […]
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 […]
Bud Ekins Desert Sled by Ace Classics
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, […]
Pure Nostalgia: Cheney / Triumph Tiger Cub
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 […]
Box of Dynamite: Yamaha RD465LC Restomod
A modernized “Elsie” with a dyno-proven 103.7 bhp! The Yamaha RD350LC was the successor of the RD400, featuring the same bore and stroke as the original air-cooled RD350 (64x54mm) but with liquid cooling and a […]
