Dust off your fingerless gloves Ultimate Fighting Championship fans. Put down those throwing stars, mall ninjas. Turn down Limp Bizkit, because Honda’s back with a brand new invention. The Furious, Switchblade and Slammer — all based on the VT1300 — … Continued
Vintage and custom bike shows sure are getting popular these days. While some events like the Brooklyn Invitational focus on a national talent list and Orange County’s Born Free event continues to transition into an ersatz mega-production, Portland’s refreshingly quirky … Continued
Some bikes are so carefully created in bad taste that they’re elevated from ugly, to remarkable. This Ducati 450 Mark 3-based cafe racer is one of those bikes. Dubbed “Shaman” by Japanese shop Stupidcrown, it features South American or Mayan-themed … Continued
“The brass knuckles act as handles to move the bike.” Jarrett Petty of Austin, Texas, built this custom Motobecane to be simple, but elegant. It was the kind of thing he always wanted to build when he was a mechanic … Continued
My friend Brian Dietz is a cruel man. Like me, he shares an unhealthy fascination for the non-stock – cafe-racers, street-trackers, bob-jobs, choppers…anything uncommon, interesting or flat-out oddball. So a week before Christmas when he e-mailed photos of a strange … Continued
This new series of prints from Gianmarco Magnani portrays bikes that are missing crucial components like the wheels — apparently stolen — lending the series its title, “Thieves.” The bikes themselves are of-the-moment vintage race bikes or cafe racers complete … Continued
Loving the Honda RS750 Scrambler and and Honda RS750 Tracker concepts as much as we are? Here, Cobra’s Denny Berg describes the inspiration and process that went into making both. It’s hard to believe two bikes this appealing started life … Continued