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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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BMW R75/5 Café Racer

Ben Branch June 5, 2012
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • German
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Vintage

BMW motorcycles from the ’60s and ’70s provide a somewhat unexpected platform for café racer conversions, the bikes (largely) weren’t designed as speed demons…

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Scrambler Kit by Mr Martini

Ben Branch June 2, 2012
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Off Road
  • Retro

The Triumph Scrambler is a modern motorcycle that, with a few clever tweaks, could be genuinely great. Nicola Martini obviously agrees with this sentiment although unlike me, he has the skills and resources to actually do something about it.

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Honda CB350 Café Racer by Team Scott Racing

Ben Branch May 26, 2012
  • American
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Vintage

The Honda CB350 is a fantastic platform for café racerisation. It’s a lightweight and inexpensive bike to buy, parts are easy to come by and it’s a remarkably forgiving bike to ride at speed.

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TwinTrax by The German Motorcycle Authority

Ben Branch May 23, 2012
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • German
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Retro

Leaving for a moment the unusual name of this garage and just looking at this, their “TwinTrax” motorcycle design from 2011, it’s difficult to know how to categorise their style.

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Aston Martin DB7/DB4 Zagato

Ben Branch May 22, 2012
  • British
  • Cars
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • Luxury
  • Retro

This is a rather unique motorcar, it gives the first impression of being an early ’60s Zagato but it’s actually based on a DB7 Vantage from the late ’90s. Coachbuilders Evanta stripped the donor DB7 down to almost nothing…

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Ducati Flash Back Endurance by Mr Martini

Ben Branch May 21, 2012
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • Italian
  • Luxury
  • Motorcycles
  • Racing
  • Retro

The Ducati Flash Back Endurance is instantly recognisable as a Mr Martini custom, the balance between state-of-the-art technology and style is a hallmark of Nicola Martini’s garage.

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Custom Boardtracker Harley

Ben Branch May 10, 2012
  • American
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles
  • Rat Rods
  • Retro

I’m not entirely sure how to categorise this motorcycle, it started life as a 1996 Harley-Davidson Sportster however it’s clearly been reworked from tip to tail and it now resembles a sort of rat rod, heavy boardtracker.

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