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Yamaha R1 Flat Tracker by Gregg’s Customs

Ben Branch August 2, 2012
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Flat Track
  • Luxury
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

This bike started life as a 2009 factory spec Yamaha R1 before being picked up by the team at Gregg’s Customs and pulled to bits. The rear subframe was tossed as were all the plastic fairings and the original swingarm.

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1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Aero Coupe

Ben Branch July 30, 2012
  • British
  • Cars
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Design
  • Luxury
  • Vintage

This Rolls-Royce Phantom III Aero Coupe is a bespoke, one off design inspired by a 1935 art-deco illustration by J. Jortovic and published in Road & Track Magazine.

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Rossmeyer Flyer by Jesse Rooke

Ben Branch July 28, 2012
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Luxury
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

The Rossmeyer Flyer was built by Jesse Rooke for Bruce Rossmeyer, a very well-known Harley-Davidson dealership owner, the bike itself is a classic Rooke design with elements of board-tracker, chopper and cruiser all integrated without any one element overpowering the design.

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Nero by Bandit 9

Ben Branch July 25, 2012
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Design
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

This bike, dubbed “Nero”, is one of the most unusual CJ750s we’ve seen. The team at Bandit 9 went all out on the build, they started with a full engine and transmission rebuild…

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War Crimes Harley Custom by Super Rat

Ben Branch July 24, 2012
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Design
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

Super Rat Motorcycles is one of those garages that never, ever builds anything normal. And this bike, War Crimes, is anything but normal. We…

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Yamaha SR500 by Custom House Stinky

Ben Branch July 7, 2012
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Vintage

This custom Yamaha SR500 is one of my favourite recent builds from Stinky, they’ve gone to a lot of trouble here to give the bike…

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Nick’s Dyna by Kraus Motor Co.

Ben Branch June 28, 2012
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

This is one of those custom motorcycles that I can’t imagine anyone not liking. Dubbed “Nicks Dyna” by the team at Kraus Motor Co., the bike is a bridge across a few motorcycle-genres with elements of cruiser, sport bike and flat tracker all existing somewhere within the design.

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Race Bike by Wolf Creative Customs

Ben Branch June 22, 2012
  • American
  • Bicycles
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles
  • Racing

I love interesting engineering projects like this, it’s a race bike built by Wolf Creative Customs based out of Culver City.

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The Pup by Old Empire Motorcycles

Ben Branch June 20, 2012
  • Bobber
  • British
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Luxury
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

Old Empire Motorcycles is a brilliant little boutique garage based in Norfolk, England. They’re fairly new and this is their first publicly available custom motorcycle, it’s been dubbed “The Pup” in memory of the infamous WWI fighter plane, the Sopwith Pup.

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Mickey Rourke’s Bike

Ben Branch June 15, 2012
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

Mickey Rourke’s bike is just about as interesting as you might expect, Mickey Rourke himself seems to have been around forever, he exploded back onto the scene recently with a breakaway performance…

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Vincent HRD Cafe Racer

Ben Branch June 12, 2012
  • British
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Vintage

This Vincent cafe racer was built by a friendly guy by the name of Phil Lemon, he shot me over an email last week and casually mentioned that he’d built a Vincent cafe racer and asked if…

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Custom Sportster by Hidemo

Ben Branch June 11, 2012
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

The humble Sportster is one of the most popular bases for custom motorcycle building in the US, interestingly it’s also a wildly popular bike for tweaking within the Japanese bike building community.

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