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Stories of Bike – Two Cities: Part 3

Ben Branch January 15, 2015
  • Australian
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Films
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles

Stories of Bike – Two Cities: Part 3 is the final part of the Two Cities series by director Cam Elkins. The two cities are…

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Yamaha XS650 Scrambler Tracker

Ben Branch January 9, 2015
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Flat Track
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Scrambler Motorcycles

The Yamaha XS650 was launched in 1968 and at the time, it had the most advanced parallel twin motorcycle engine in the world. It used unit…

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Datsun 240Z V8

Ben Branch January 2, 2015
  • Cars
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Japanese
  • Vintage

The Datsun 240Z was an exceedingly important car for Datsun, the automaker saw the need for a halo-car that would help shift the brand’s…

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Top 14 Motorcycles of 2014

Ben Branch December 30, 2014
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles

Each year we put together a list of the most popular motorcycles to appear on Silodrome, we use raw traffic data to compile this…

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Ducati 900SS by Old Empire Motorcycles

Ben Branch December 3, 2014
  • Board Trackers
  • British
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Ducati
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

The Ducati 900SS is a motorcycle that’s rapidly becoming a bit of a modern classic, custom bike builders have been discovering the raw mechanical…

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Suzuki GN125 by Dream Wheels Heritage

Ben Branch November 28, 2014
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

Portugal recently updated their licensing laws to allow anyone with a standard car license to ride a motorcycle or scooter up to 125cc in…

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Yamaha XV950 by Marcus Walz

Ben Branch November 27, 2014
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Yamaha

Since the beginning of the Yamaha Yard Built program we’ve seen a surprisingly diverse array of motorcycles developed by custom bike builders from all…

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Yamaha XV950 Custom

Ben Branch November 17, 2014
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

The new Yamaha XV950 is a motorcycle designed to target the fast growing mid-size cruiser segment, Yamaha released the model in 2013 and it’s…

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BMW R75/5 by Ton-Up Garage

Ben Branch November 14, 2014
  • BMW
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • German
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

This BMW R75/5 by the team at Ton-Up Garage is a good illustration of the new movement towards restomodding motorcycles without necessarily customising them…

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Gardner Board Tracker by Andre’ Wänman

Ben Branch November 11, 2014
  • Board Trackers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

Andre’ Wänman is a humble Swedish gardener and welder with a deep love of vintage board track motorcycles, before the onset of each long…

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Triumph Scrambler Custom

Ben Branch November 8, 2014
  • British
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Scrambler Motorcycles
  • Triumph

This Triumph Scrambler custom is a little unusual in that it was actually built by the engineers at Triumph as a study into what…

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The Hill Fighter by Rising Sun Workshop

Ben Branch October 21, 2014
  • Australian
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles

The Hill Fighter is the first in-house custom built by the team at the Rising Sun Workshop in Sydney, Australia. It’s based on a Harley-Davidson…

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