BUC It: Burn Up Company’s burly BMW, built for sidecar adventures… In the mid-1980s, BMW replaced the twin-shock rear suspension on their airhead models with a monolever (single-shock) system, whose asymmetric design was meant to […]
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Bantamweight Bobber: Honda Rebel 250 “Toshiko”
Joseph Friday (Friday’s The Bomb) builds one agile 250 bobber… The Honda Rebel 250 (aka CMX250C) first appeared in 1984 — a lightweight 234cc parallel-twin cruiser that would remain in production until 2016! A common […]
Trusty Steed: McQueen-Inspired Triumph Scrambler
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 […]
Built for Good: Harley Sportster Forty-Eight by CROIG
CROIG.co brings together a dream team of builders for a great cause… (Written by Keith Baskett of Combustion Collective.) Across the world, motorcycles mean different things to different people. In some places, they are utilitarian; […]
Functional Form: Ducati Scrambler Icon
Mark Kelley of Magna Form builds himself the perfect Scrambler… In 2015, Ducati introduced the Scrambler 800, a modern reincarnation of the single-cylinder Ducati Scrambler series of the 1960s-70s. The new model sported a 75-hp […]
The Duc: Ducati Sport 1000 by DNA Motor Lab
In 2005, Ducati came out with their SportClassic series — a range of retro-styled machines from legendary designer Pierre Terblanche, who took inspiration from the Ducati racing bikes of yesteryear. The SportClassics machines were too […]
Holly Honda: CB175 Café Racer by Chris Harter
A young airline pilot builds a sweet CB175… The Honda CB175 came to the U.S. market in 1969, an air-cooled twin that offered 20 hp at 10,000 rpm, a top speed of 86 mph, and […]
Honda CL350 “Moonbeam” by Mazi Moto
“This is a CL, it should look like it wants to rip around in the dirt…” In 1968, Honda introduced the CL350, a Scrambler version of the popular 324cc CB350 twin. The CL featured high […]
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 […]
Small-Bore Speeder: Honda MB5 Land Speed Racer
Tim Klostermann of Economy Chopper sets out to beat the M-AG 50cc land speed record… For one year only (1982), the US market received the Honda MB5, a 50cc reed-valve two-stroke with a five-speed gearbox, […]
