This BMW R100RT is a family heirloom of sorts, it belongs to Sam, a Texan with a lifelong relationship with this BMW and a deep love for daily-rideable custom motorcycles. Ever since he was a child, Sam has had this BMW in his life – it previously belonged to his father who would sometimes take…
The BMW R80ST is one of the rarer and more unusual motorcycles from the German marque’s 1980s catalogue. It’s essentially a more street-oriented version of the legendary BMW R80G/S, the motorcycle that largely invented the modern dual sport adventure motorcycle genre. Only a few thousand examples of the BMW R80ST were built between 1982 and…
This is the official trailer for Oil In The Blood, a film about the people who make up modern custom motorcycle culture. Production for the film was underway for years, Gareth Maxwell Roberts travelled the globe to interview many of the leading lights of the custom motorcycle world and the resulting film is fantastic. Roberts…
Walt Siegl is a globally renowned custom motorcycle builder who has a unique knack for creating motorcycles that are both masterpieces of engineering, and aesthetically stunning. From his base in New Hampshire Walt has built some of the most memorable Ducati customs in modern history. Rather than building the far more common “bolt on specials”…
This BMW K100 cafe racer is unlike any you’ve ever seen, it’s fitted with a bespoke CVT automatic transmission to allow its partially disabled owner to ride it. Many people with disabilities are restricted to either not riding motorcycles at all, or to riding three-wheeled bikes like Can Ams, Ural sidecar motorcycles, and the Piaggio…
The BMW Volkswagen Fikobike is a one-off custom motorcycle built by Dallas oilman Lee Fikes in the autumn of 1967. He had a BMW R60 but its 600cc horizontally opposed twin wasn’t producing as much power as he wanted, so he embarked on a project to install a modified 1500cc Volkswagen flat-4. Fikes had bought…
The Royal Enfield 650 Interceptor was released in 2018 and as such, we haven’t seen a large number of customs yet due to its relative rarity. That said, Royal Enfield have provided a small number of Interceptors to prominent custom motorcycle garages as a way of showcasing the extensibility of the new model. The Royal…
This article was written by Rahul Sinroja, the owner and founder of Sinroja Motorcycles. When possible we like to bring you an article written by the person who built it, to cut out the middle man and give you direct insight into their methods and thought process. The idea was to keep the build simple…
This custom Yamaha XSR700 is the work of Hookie Co., a German workshop that have become world-leaders in the field of developing and selling kits that allow people to customise their motorcycles at home using simple hand tools. So far, Hookie Co. have developed multiple Moto-Kits for the BMW R nineT and the new one…
This article was written by Bujar Muharremi, the co-founder of AutoFabrica. When possible we like to bring you the story of a custom build in the words of the people who built it, to offer clear insight into their thought process and methods. The Type 7G started life as a 1978 SR500 Yamaha, the big…
On this project, our customer (Benjamin) first idea was to turn his Yamaha SR 400 into a British style “Between the Wars” inspired custom bike. He would use it mainly for his daily rides in Brussels to commute from home to his work at the European Commission.
This article was written by Per Gabos, the creator of this rather unusual pulsejet-powered motorcycle. The Weltmeister Fictional Experimental Motorcycle The Idea What if the Germans had built experimental pulsejet-powered motorcycles in the mid-1930s – how would these have been made and what would they have looked like? In the 1940s there were already…
