If you’re setting out to build a custom café racer, a 1974 Harley-Davidson FX Super-Glide is probably not the motorcycle with which most builders would prefer to start. Yet that didn’t deter James Roper-Caldbeck –...
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Each and every year in this country, countless hands are wrung and teeth are gnashed when the subject of steering kids away from drugs, violence and other unwholesome activities is broached. Lots of individuals and...
The Honda CB750, which debuted in 1969, was the first motorcycle to be anointed a “superbike.” Additionally, it gave rise to the CR750 racing bike, which famously won the Daytona 200 on debut in 1970...
If you crave cruising with the rumble of a big V-twin flooding your ear canals but can’t live without Japanese engineering precision, the Star Bolt from Yamaha might be the motorcycle of your dreams. But...
Students of motorsports history know the Hesketh name from its brief yet (very) colorful stint in Formula 1 in the 1970s, but not many know that Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, Third Baron Hesketh (to use his full...
Portland, Oregon is, of course, the nexus of hipsterdom. But mixed among the fixie bikes, highly-stylized facial hair and artisanal this, that and the other, you’ll find Icon 1000, a motorcycling apparel and gear shop....
In many Southeast Asian countries, motorcycles with tiny (sub-200cc) engines are the norm. You would think these micro-motored machines, barely more muscular than the mopeds you find in “developed” markets like ours, are completely unfit...
Considering BMW has been in business for 100 years, it should come as no surprise that the German label has quite the back catalog of awesome motorcycles. One such sweet bike is the R 100...
Generally, there isn’t anything particularly novel about building a stylish café racer out of a classic BMW motorcycle. But if you can get a current BMW Motorrad designer to help create said classic café racer,...
As technology has evolved, so too has what artists are able to create. Take this stylish custom motorcycle, for instance. It started life as a 1985 BMW K100, but the guys at Impuls – Philipp...