It isn’t widely known that the Moto-Terminator motorcycles from the Terminator Salvation movie were heavily customized Ducati Hypermotards. The primary scene in the movie that features the Moto-Terminators is one of the highlights of the film, most of the footage used in the chase scene was filmed traditionally using stunt riders on Hypermotards, this was…
The Postie Bike is an Australian institution, they’re a lightly modified version of the Honda CT110 specifically built for Australia Post – an Australian government institution famous for its ability to find new and creative ways to not deliver your mail. This custom Postie Bike chopper was built as a collaborative effort between the Rising…
This is probably the most interesting street tracker we’ve ever featured. If you’re skeptical take a closer look at that front and rear suspension. The bike started out humbly with a 1200cc V-twin literally stolen from his wife’s Sportster and am old frame gifted to Kevin from a close friend. Thankfully his wife now has…
The eCub is an all-inclusive kit to turn a Honda Cub into a 100% electric motorcycle. The kit is the brainchild of the international team at Shanghai Customs, they spent years working on the engineering and design, the end result is a plug-and-play kit that’s already in use around the world, with eCubs on the…
The Mash TT40 Cafe Racer is equal parts French, Chinese, and Japanese – in a manner of speaking. The design is French (with some very obvious British cafe racer influences), the bike is built in Mainland China, and the engine/transmission is (very closely) based on the Japanese Honda XBR500 power unit from the 1980s. The…
The ABC Skootamota was the brainchild of engineering genius Granville Bradshaw, inventions like the Skootamota, the Motoped, the Kenilworth, and the Reynolds Runabout showed remarkable foresight, and they would evolve into the hugely popular motor scooters built by the likes of Vespa and Lambretta. The Skootamota was designed in 1919, just a year after the…
This Honda Dominator NX650 custom is the work of the talented team at Petrology, they’ve allied with SG Moto Restoration to develop a production run of rebuilt Dominators designed to capture the spirit of 1970s dual sport bikes. The Honda Dominator NX650 The Honda Dominator NX650 was developed as a mid-size dual sport motorcycle in…
This Ariel Red Hunter project bike looks like it’s a restoration that was never quite finished, it appears as though the frame and fuel tank have been painted ready for assembly, and it looks relatively complete with the crankcase, crankshaft, barrel, head, dynamo, gearbox, frame, fuel tank, oil tank, and many other essential parts all…
Moto Undone is a bespoke electric motorcycle developed by Joey Ruiter and the team at jruiter I.D. with the very specific goal of creating an entirely new motorcycle design with no references to any other motorcycle ever made. The plan was to strip away almost everything that makes a motorcycle a motorcycle and instead use…
The Suzuki XR69 was an underdog of sorts, it was a joint project between the Japanese motorcycle maker and motorcycle tuning icon Pops Yoshimura. Honda was the king of the hill when it came to Japanese four-strokes, but what Suzuki and Pops managed to do in a few short years was turn this dominance on…
This is the Triumph TR6SS Trophy that Bud Ekins rode to a Gold Medal-win in the 1962 International Six Day Trials in Europe while he was there with Steve McQueen acting as his stunt double for The Great Escape – including that iconic barbed wire motorcycle jump scene. Bud Ekins – California’s Champion Bud Ekins is…
The Curtiss Zeus is a new electric motorcycle from the company formerly known as Confederate Motorcycles. It has a 0-62 mph time of 2.1 seconds, a 140 kW motor (190 bhp), 145 ft lbs of torque, and a range of 280 miles. Curtiss Motorcycles Confederate changed their name to Curtiss in 2017 and announced a…
