One of the best two-wheeled stories of 2020… This past September, we ventured up to West Virginia to ride some of the 700+ miles of the Hatfield-McCoy Trails in the southern part of the state […]
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Motorcycle Valhalla: The Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum
Vote for your favorite bikes in the world’s largest motorcycle museum! The Barber Vintage Festival is one of the USA’s premier vintage motorcycle events, hosted every October at the 880-acre Barber Motorsports Park outside Birmingham, […]
Rubicon XL: Honda XL250 by One Down Four Up
The Rubicon Trail is one of the most legendary 4×4/off-road trails in the world, a 22-mile route through the Sierra Nevada mountains just west of the California/Nevada border. Native peoples originally used the route to […]
High-Spec: BMW R100-HS by Magnum Opus
The BMW R100 was the last and most powerful of the beloved airheads, boasting a 980cc air-cooled boxer engine that made 70 horsepower at 7000 rpm. When BMW Motorrad tried to cease production in the […]
Full Metal Brat: Suzuki GS850 by Basan Metalworks
The Suzuki GS850, introduced in 1979, sported a bored-out two-valve GS750 engine mated to a shaft drive, offering 77 horsepower and a top speed of 119 mph — a heavyweight brute designed for the touring […]
Boxer Redemption: BMW R80 by Redeemed Cycles
Bob Ranew of Redeemed Cycles builds himself a Beemer… Some of our favorite customs are those that builders put together just for themselves, freed from the constraints of a client design brief. Such is the […]
’86 Honda CR500 Supermoto by Canellos Racing
An open-class two-stroke supermotard built in the spirit of Superbikers…. Starting in 1979, ABC commissioned Superbikers, a made-for-TV series hosted at California’s Carlsbad Raceway, where motorcycling greats from all different disciplines raced head-to-head on special […]
Scarlet Witch: Honda CB450 Cafe Racer
“The True Spirit of a Racer”: From barn find to Handbuilt Show… In 1965, Honda introduced their first “big” motorcycle, the original CB450 “Black Bomber” — a 43-hp straight-twin that could do 101 mph. The […]
Chattachoochee Skunkworks: Honda CB400F Cafe Racer
Introduced in 1975, the Honda CB400F Super Sport is one of the most exquisite motorcycles ever to come out of Japan, a lightweight inline four with a 10,000 rpm redline, six-speed transmission, and quite possibly […]
Two-Stroke Café Racer: Suzuki GT185 Adventurer
Milwaukee’s Steve Baugrud builds one sweet smoker… In 1973, Suzuki unveiled the GT185 Adventurer, a 21-hp air-cooled two-stroke parallel twin with Ram Air, crank case oil injection, electric start, and a front disc brake. The […]
