Shred in style: Budget-friendly mods for your street-legal dirt bike
The street-legal dirt bike scene has one of the biggest mod cultures in motorcycling, and if you don’t believe me, it’s been a minute since you’ve been on the forums. You pinched pennies to afford the bike, but...
Speed Read: A gleaming Moto Guzzi 1000 SP café racer and more
We open this weekend’s proceedings with an elegant Moto Guzzi 1000 SP café racer from Italy’s North East Custom. Tamarit delivers a tastefully modded Triumph Scrambler, while a CBX-powered Honda RC166 replica crosses Mecum’s auction block. We conclude...
Road Tested: Goatskin motorcycle gloves from Saint
We rarely publish a motorcycle gear review without at least one caveat or gripe. But once in a while, a product comes along that effortlessly ticks every last box on our scrupulous list of must-haves. Or, in the...
The Mojavian: A Harley-Davidson Baja 100 scrambler from Texas
“Who wouldn’t want to build a two-stroke Italian Harley?” asks Chris Tope, almost irreverently. “It’s the original Harley-Davidson Pan America!”
As the ‘Tope’ in Utopeia Moto Company in Texas, Chris is known for building offbeat scramblers stacked with quirky...
Bayern Madness: Another knockout BMW R nineT by Rough Crafts
Eight years ago, Rough Crafts knocked us off our feet with their first-ever custom BMW R nineT. The Taiwanese superstar custom shop had mostly built custom Harleys until then—but the ‘Bavarian Fistfighter’ was definitive proof that founder Winston...
Rock On: UCC chops the new Indian Scout for Mikkey Dee
Ask Indian Motorcycle’s design director, Ola Stenegärd, which part of the new Indian Scout he’s most proud of, and he’ll most likely point to its tubular steel frame. So imagine his delight when Indian gave Ronna Norén at...
Have Your Say: 10 bikes from the Malle Mile Custom Build Challenge
The tenth running of the Malle Mile is in the books, and from what we’ve heard, it was one for the ages. Scores of motorcycle nuts descended upon the regal grounds of Grimsthorpe Estate for a weekend of...
Dakar Dreaming: Classic Co.’s Moto Guzzi V85 TT rally bike
The 1985 Paris-Dakar Rally will always be remembered for Gaston Rahier’s victory in the motorcycle division. The Belgian rally racer barely stood taller than the BMW R80 G/S he was piloting; a bike that would go on to...
Undercover Mud Lover: A Royal Enfield 650 scrambler from Argentina
It’s widely accepted that a custom motorcycle doesn’t need actual off-road chops to identify as a scrambler. Just like many other custom-build genres, the moniker has become as much about a bike’s style as it has about its...
Tweener: Vagabund Moto tackles the electrical BMW CE 02
Regardless of what the futurists say, an all-electric motorbike future continues to be far off. For motorcyclists to undertake electrical mobility en masse, battery-powered bikes should strike the identical steadiness between value, efficiency, and vary that petrol-powered bikes...
