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Game Over Cycles’ Slow Burn brings James Hetfield’s Auburn styling to two wheels. The 3.3-metre custom took 7,000 hours to build and has collected three more awards at European Bike Week. We take a closer look at the details. The post Slow Burn: 7,000 hours of heavy metal inspire…
Portuguese shop Mototrofa has won the 2026 HondaCustoms.com competition for the second time. Their latest entry, dubbed “Mugen,” means “infinite” in Japanese. “Form Should Follow Function” The bike began life as a CB750 Hornet. And it still looks like one. If you don’t look too c…
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Listed for sale on Collecting Cars, this Buell M2 Cyclone is a thoroughly re-engineered café racer that combines the muscular character of an American V-twin with the chassis hardware and visual language of Ducati. Known by its builder as the ‘Bucati,’ the motorcycle retains the …
The line between custom motorcycle building and art has always been difficult to define. Art is free to exist simply to provoke a reaction, while a motorcycle still must carry its rider, manoeuvre, stop and survive road conditions. But every so often, a builder creates a machine …
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Most custom motorcycles, all things going well, are built once, which seems entirely reasonable when you consider how much time, money and swearing is involved. But when this BMW R100 arrived at Bolt Motor Company in Valencia, it wasn’t a motorcycle at all; it was a collection of…
If it wasn't for the massive logos that run the length of this creation, we woul...
Whether you're a new reader or just missed it the first time around, we’re diggi...
The most common path in the motorcycle world starts with a dealership and a big...
Yamaha's beloved SR has come in an array of sizes over the years, all closely re...
When Royal Enfield introduced the Hunter 350, it quickly became a darling of the...
Darth Vader famously preferred a TIE fighter for aerial duties, but had Kawasaki built the ZRX1200 in a galaxy far, far away, the big green bruiser would have made a pretty convincing option as his ground-based attack vehicle. French builder Jerem Motorcycles has taken Kawasaki’s…
The difference between those who do something and those who don’t is often the a...
BMW’s K100 has spent four decades saddled with the Flying Brick nickname, and one look at the enormous longitudinal four-cylinder engine explains why. But there’s something useful about starting with a motorcycle nobody could ever accuse of being delicate: you can attack it with …
When Enrico de Haas and the youth at Glemseck Moto pulled the covers off 'Pariva...
Operating out of Paignton, Devon, along the coastal stretch of southwest England...
When the Yamaha XV750 Virago debuted in 1982, few envisioned the awkward, shaft-...
Almond Tinkler was a racer, inventor and engineer whose extraordinary ‘power egg’ motorcycle was unlike anything else at the 1927 TT – but exhaustion, breakdowns and bad luck prevented it from ever making the start line. TINKLER Almond Tinkler was a keen motorcyclist from the tim…
Offered for sale on Bring a Trailer with no reserve, this 1993 Ducati 907 I.E. represents a thoughtful reworking of Ducati’s distinctive sport-touring platform into a more focused cafe racer. Completed between 2018 and 2019, the build combines a rebuilt 904cc L-twin, upgraded ele…
If you have even a passing interest in custom Italian twin-cylinder motorcycles,...
Enrico de Haas is a familiar and highly respected figure in the European custom...
Liz Rubin and the team at Triumph Columbia River in Portland, Oregon, approached their custom Scrambler 1200X with a clear objective: create a motorcycle that reflected the character of the Pacific Northwest while remaining genuinely usable on the roads, gravel tracks, and forest…
This 2026 CRF110F was acquired by the seller in May and immediately thereafter modified with a big wheel kit by BVC of Tucson, Arizona. Modifications include a custom billet aluminum swingarm and triple clamps, alloy 10″ wheels with 21″ SUNF tires, disc brakes, custom hubs, anti-…
This 2009 Yamaha Star VMAX was sold new in the US, and it was purchased by the seller and imported to Canada in 2011. A subsequent custom build by Kreater Custom Motorcycles of Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, that culminated c.2014 included custom-fabricating an underslung fuel tank,…
Although not technically a manufacturer – the Bullpup was very much a one-off – we include it here for its interesting story and because it really is ‘once seen, never forgotten’! The Walker Bullpup at the Banbury Run in 1979… The Bullpup was built by Farnborough engineer Victor …
Jonathan Hull has built his reputation around transforming classic Honda motorcycles into highly refined custom machines without erasing the engineering character that made them distinctive. His latest creation, known as Northman, is a bespoke 1974 Honda CB200 that combines perio…
This 1970 Honda CT70 Trail was the subject of a custom build by the seller, who tells us that the bike has been retrofitted with an air-cooled Zongshen 212cc four-stroke single, a manual clutch, a five-speed transmission, a Nibbi Racing offset intake manifold and PE30mm carbureto…
The transformation of this Honda CBX 750 by LF Custom demonstrates why high-level motorcycle customization is far more than an exercise in styling. The project required extensive engineering work on the front suspension, steering components, and chassis geometry, while also integ…
There are plenty of Ducatis that make obvious café racer donors, but the first-generation Multistrada has never really been one of them. Pierre Terblanche’s tall, heavily faired sports-tourer was deliberately unconventional when it arrived, yet beneath all that plastic sat some o…
Over more than three decades, Marcus Walz has built well over a thousand incredible custom motorcycles, and they command a pretty penny! His name was forged in the wild world of Harley-based European customs, before WalzWerk evolved into a genuine motorcycle manufacturer, turning…
There was a time when building a world-class custom motorcycle started with cardboard templates, masking tape and a good eye. Hours disappeared behind an English wheel, an angle grinder and a MIG torch, with every panel shaped by instinct and experience. That craftsmanship hasn’t…
This 1964 BMW R69S was refurbished and assembled by the seller in collaboration with Kevin Brooks of Brooks Motor Works in 2014, and it features a reproduction Steib sidecar, an oversize fuel tank, hard-sided saddlebags, alloy rims, and a chrome dual exhaust system. It went on to…
