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CUSTOM & STYLE: Custom Bike of the Year? El Chapo's escape Honda has been grabbing all the headlines.
Motorcyclists around the world pricked up their ears upon hearing word that notorious billionaire drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman used a motorcycle on rails to speed his escape from Mexico's maximum-security Altiplano prison. It took two days for photos of a cleverly modified (and very...
Published on July 24 2015, 13:13
Source: www.cycleworld.com
While stylistic exuberance can shroud its origins, racing has always been the No. 1 starting point of most custom bike styles—Class C racing begat the bob-job, dragsters led to the chopper, GP the café racer, and dirt racing the tracker and scrambler styles. Uwe Ehinger of Germany's Ehinger...
Originally from the June 2008 issue of Cycle World If you're Ducati, how to upstage your own world champion's MotoGP bike in a static staredown? Impossible, you say? Well, Casey Stoner, how do you like your Desmo RR Duck cooked? Because Ducati turned up the heat and did just that by getting...
The motorcycles jostling for position around me look like they've escaped from the Island of Dr Moreau. Vicious crossbreeds, custom mongrels or, as they say around here, "a thousand milks." "Around here" is Galicia, Spain, north of Portugal and on the rugged Atlantic coast. It's out on a limb, a...
What does one do with a low-mileage 1983 Harley-Davidson XR1000 that has suffered damage resulting from a "mishap" on the road? For Michael Schumacher of Scottsdale, Arizona (not the German F1 driver), the answer was to enlist Mule Motorcycles of Poway, California. Richard Pollock, Mule's man...
Editor's note: Back in August, we posted this story just after the "Motorcycles as Art" exhibit for naked customs wrapped up its short run at Sturgis. But frankly, while it was a great story by Paul d'Orleans, we didn't have many images of the bikes themselves, and these are machines that need...
It's been 2 months since my feature about the workshops that were gearing up to challenge Lucky Cat Garage's 'Sprintbeemer' in the 1/8th mile races at Glemseck 101. Since the race took place I've been eagerly awaiting details and photos of the bike that finally "killed the cat" to be released...
If there's one thing every builder should strive to achieve when they customise a motorcycle it's to improve upon its original construction. Many of the bikes used as donors for the builds we feature are decades old so that task can sometimes be an easy one. Improvements in electronics can be...