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Kawasaki KZ200 Tracker

Ben Branch May 27, 2015
  • Australian
  • Flat Trackers
  • Japanese
  • Kawasaki
  • Motorcycles

The Kawasaki KZ200 is a motorcycle that was developed largely for the South East Asian market, with a particular focus on Indonesia. For a while back in the 1970s, the Indonesians had a law…

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Moto Watercolours by Claudia Liebenberg

Ben Branch May 25, 2015
  • Art
  • Home
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

Claudia Liebenberg is an exceptionally talented South African artist with a deeply held love of motorcycles and the culture that surrounds them. She’s been painting since she could hold a brush, and she settled…

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Matchless-Vickers Military Motorcycle

Ben Branch May 22, 2015
  • British
  • Military
  • Motorcycles
  • Vintage

The idea of taking a motorcycle and attaching a machine gun to it seems to have occurred to someone very shortly after the motorcycle was first invented. The benefits of a mobile machine gun…

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Tim Allen’s Brawler GT-R

Ben Branch May 20, 2015
  • American
  • Luxury
  • Motorcycles

The Brawler GT is a handmade sport cruiser by Dar Holdsworth and the talented team over at Darwin Motorcycles, it was designed from the ground up as an all-American motorcycle that could be used…

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Legends of F1: John Surtees

Ben Branch May 20, 2015
  • British
  • Films
  • Motorcycles
  • Racing

I’ve come across a disconcertingly significant number of motorcyclists in recent weeks who don’t know who John Surtees is, so I spent this afternoon hunting around for a suitable documentary that will help bring…

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Suzuki Katana by Icon 1000

Ben Branch May 19, 2015
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro
  • Suzuki

The Suzuki Katana is a bike that had a major impact on motorcycle design from its introduction in 1981 through to the modern day, many overlook the model due to its divisive design, but…

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Yamaha XS650 by Makarne Custom Motorcycles

Ben Branch May 16, 2015
  • Australian
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

The Yamaha XS650 is quite a remarkable motorcycle, the parallel twin engine started life as a 500cc unit in the Hosk SOHC twin that first entered production in 1955. It was a relatively advanced…

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Triumph Tiger 900 – A Custom British Desert Sled

Ben Branch May 14, 2015
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles
  • Off Road
  • Retro
  • Triumph

The original Triumph Tiger 900 was released in 1993 and remained in production for 5 years, it won a small but loyal band of followers who nicknamed it the “steamer” and rode the model…

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Moto Art by Christopher Myott

Ben Branch May 12, 2015
  • American
  • Art
  • Ducati
  • Motorcycles

Christopher Myott is a New Hampshire-based artist who is currently working on a collection of portraits of custom motorcycles build by Walt Siegl. Each of the canvasses reflects a different one of the Ducati…

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Yamaha XV750 Scrambler

Ben Branch May 11, 2015
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

In 1981 Yamaha released the XV750 Virago – their first V-twin motorcycle and a big step into the American-style cruiser market which was dominated at the time by Harley-Davidson. From an engineering perspective, the…

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BMW R100/7 by Dream Wheels Heritage

Ben Branch May 9, 2015
  • BMW
  • German
  • Motorcycles
  • Vintage

The BMW R100/7 was released in 1976 as one of the largest-engined bikes in the company’s model line, the 980cc boxer twin produces 60hp and 54 ft lbs of torque, with its twin Bing…

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Ducati Flat Tracker

Ben Branch May 8, 2015
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Ducati
  • Flat Track
  • Italian
  • Motorcycles

Benjie’s Cafe Racers is an Italian custom motorcycle workshop run by Benjie Flipprboi, he’s a man who has gained no small amount of respect in recent years by building wildly imaginative custom motorcycles with…

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