Roland Sands Design are easily one of the top custom bike builders in the world today, their careful meld between state-of-the-art engineering and aesthetically stunning design never fails to stop me in my tracks. This bike, the KTM 525 EXC is no exception
So far as I can tell, she’s giving him her phone number. Or maybe directions. I’m just trying to figure out how the hell…
Falcon is a company that needs no introduction, unless you’ve been living under a rock or not reading motorcycle magazines/websites for the past couple of years. Their creations are revered almost like Greek gods amongst enthusiasts of two-wheeled customs, their most recent bike, the Black Falcon,
Matt Chambers is the Founder and CEO of Confederate Motors, an American-as-apple-pie motorcycle builder famous for producing incredibly well engineered and designed bikes. This clip features Matt talking about Confederate Motorcycles, his ethos and a little about the Hellcat (pictured below).
This vinyl wall decal measures 47 inches wide x 22.5 inches tall and can be ordered in custom sizes from the store, it’s also available in a stack of colours as well as easy to follow instructions for installation. The Mrs may get a little antsy if you put it on the living room wall, so you’ll probably need to get rid of her.
Nicknamed “Gorilla Punch” this bike started life as a Honda CB750, the Wrenchmonkees stripped it back to nothing and built their own custom café racer from its bones.
In the 1970s and 1980s a man called George Martin was the number 1 custom motorcycle and motorcycle frame builder in Europe. The frame on this bike is one of Martin’s original 70s frames (although it looks like pure Ducati) and the engine is an air-cooled Kawasaki Z1000.
Depth of Speed is a 10 episode web-series that focusses on small-scale motorcycle and car builders across the USA, it’s been produced in conjunction with HypeBeast. This is episode 1 and it features the team from the Pangea Speed garage in Salt Lake City, Utah. The film itself is a well put together 5 minute sojourn into the lives of some very cool and very talented people.
I’ve always been fascinated with vintage engineering and this particular example is quite remarkable. Exactly who first came up with the idea of using a wheel’s spokes as suspension seems to be somewhat elusive but the idea itself is quite brilliant.
It’s often remarkable what 6 months in a garage can accomplish. Nick, the builder of this remarkable Honda CB360, found it in an old mans shed and offered him $300 for it, the guy accepted the offer and Nick took it home.
This music video by Hysteric Studios and the bike builders at Blitz Motorcycles is one of those things that makes you sit down and question the intelligence behind working in an office, especially when you learn that the average cubicle is half the size of the average prison cell.
