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Honda CB550F SuperSport

Ben Branch November 13, 2014
  • Honda
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

The Honda CB550F SuperSport is a motorcycle that’s lived in the shadow of its larger sibling, the CB750F, for the past 40 years. Despite…

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Brough Superior SS100 Alpine Grand Sports

Ben Branch November 12, 2014
  • British
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Luxury
  • Motorcycles

Known as the Rolls-Royce of motorcycles, Brough Superior was a British marque famous for two things: speed and luxury. The model you see here…

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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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1969 Honda CL350 Cafe Racer

Ben Branch November 7, 2014
  • Cafe Racers
  • Honda
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles

The Honda CL350 was the marque’s best selling model for a number of years between 1968 through 1973, over 250,000 of them were produced and…

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Kawasaki H2 Cafe Racer

Ben Branch November 6, 2014
  • Cafe Racers
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Japanese
  • Kawasaki
  • Motorcycles

The recently announced Kawasaki H2 is a motorcycle that’s likely to be remembered as a milestone in superbike design and it’s certainly going to…

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Suzuki XN85 Turbo

Ben Branch November 5, 2014
  • Engineering
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

The Suzuki XN85 Turbo was the first turbo-charged motorcycle from the Japanese marque, it was a direct answer to the Honda CX500T but it…

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Harley-Davidson Street 750 Tracker

Ben Branch November 4, 2014
  • American
  • Australian
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles

The new Harley-Davidson Street 750 represents a new direction for the 111 year old motorcycle marque – It’s a liquid-cooled bike targeted directly at…

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Ducati Leggero by Walt Siegl Motorcycles

Ben Branch November 3, 2014
  • Design
  • Ducati
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles
  • Rare

The Ducati Leggero series of limited production motorcycles by Walt Siegl have earned themselves a place of reverence in the lexicon of the world’s…

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Kaillie Humphries’ XS650 by Loaded Gun Customs

Ben Branch October 31, 2014
  • Cafe Racers
  • Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

We’ve seen a new generation of female motorcyclists emerge over the past 10 years or so, whilst there have always been women who ride…

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1972 Harley-Davidson XR750

Ben Branch October 30, 2014
  • American
  • Flat Track
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Vintage

I sometimes upset certain types of vintage motorcycle enthusiast by telling them that the Harley-Davidson XR750 is one of the most beautiful bikes ever made,…

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Stories of Bike – Sister

Ben Branch October 26, 2014
  • Australian
  • Films
  • Motorcycles

Sister is the latest episode in the popular Stories of Bike film series by director Cam Elkins, this episode features best-friends Maria and Nina – both Swedish…

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