Page 38, News about Custom Motorcycles

Two-stroke supermoto with NOS? It sounds menacing and powerfulSeven year

Santander Salt TAG Racing, the British Superbike team, presented the sensational livery that their Yamaha will wear this year at the British competition.

The renowned custom bike designer Roland Sands stripped down the BMW R 18 to create a straight line dragster featuring the iconic and massive boxer powerplant. The result: the R 18 Dragster. He and

This spectacular Laverda 3-cylinder on offer is a custom-made one-off designed and created by Laverda Guru Jean-Louis Olive.

As anyone who builds things for a living will tell you, the customer is not always right. Many builders prefer to get carte blanche with a bike, and some demand it as a condition of hire.

A dedicated off-roader transformed into a minimalist style statement: Meet the Honda XR650 scrambler. The result, we think you'll agree, is a subtle, sophisticated machine with more than little urb

Some motorcycles seem to be sacrosanct when it comes to customizing, while others are fair game. So you see quite a few Triumph Trophy customs, and not many Nortons.

The fastest-selling Triumph motorcycle in history has been in showrooms for around a year now. But we haven’t seen many custom jobs, because the Bonneville Bobber does everything very well—except c

Robin Tuluie, who once used to work with Polaris and who’s now with the Renault F1 team, has come up with this unique motorcycle – the Tularis 800 – which two-stroke fanatics should love. The bike

If you were to ask anyone today they would likely agree that Ducati is synonymous with performance motorcycles. But what if I was to tell you that wasn’t always the case? We have to go way back int

For those who already know of this DRZ400 build, this build bio should probably start with “A long long time ago…” For those who don’t know, this build has been a back burner project for Leo (one o

Sam Nehme knew that when, in 2007, he set out to build a chopper that would stand out from the crowd. It was the time of chrome and he’d grown tired of seeing it everywhere, so for a televised buil

The following is from Indian Motorcycle…Indian Motorcycle, America’s First Motorcycle Company, and S&S Cycle today announced a collaboration to race an Indian Challenger at the inaugural Dra

Bill Webb has two passions in life: design and motorcycles. He’s a partner at a San Francisco agency called Huge Design, and for years his daily ride was a 1995 Kawasaki ZX7 Ninja. Then the bike wa

Almost everything on this V-MAX is new or rebuilt to new condition. The bike currently weighs in at about 520 to 530 lbs., so it is considerably lighter that it was in the stock form. This incredib

Creating a retro-bike these days is quite a tough task, as the bike needs to appeal to the millennials of today, without being too boring or too dated. This means if a 2-wheeler company wants to cr

Big Dog is among the few shops out there to have turned custom motorcycles into series production bikes. That’s a good way to provide people with the riding thrills they like without sending them i

Spencer Parr of Parr Motorcycles, Indiana, transformed a 2012 DR650 into an urban scrambler, combining classic retro style with modern reliability and performance.

Raptik is a Swiss photographer and track day rider who asked the motorcycle tuning company No Limit Tuning to build a custom motorcycle for him, which consists largely of carbon.

Adrián Campos and the crew at Spain’s Bolt Motor Co. are back again with yet another impressive build. This time Bolt has tackled a two-stroke donor in the form of a 1989 Yamaha RD 350 YPVS F2.