Honda CB750K Cafe Racer
The Honda CB750 is quite possibly the most “Café’d” bike in history, not that that’s a bad thing, the engine and frame are both…
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Vespa Sidecar
This is singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards and her pooch, in a park just outside of Toronto, Canada. Vespas with sidecars attached have always
Stheart Detroit Tee
Detroit has, arguably, had the hardest time of any city in the US over the past 5 years. The economic downturn hit the big automobile manufacturers hard and layoffs, unemployment and plummeting house prices have taken their toll on the residents of Motor City.
Honda CB500 by Steel Bent Customs
Michael Mundy is the owner of Steel Bent Customs based out of Oldsmar, Florida. His garage has a track record for building bikes that are the distillation of modern café racers, I know that term is over used nowadays but it used to refer to bikes that were bought as stock, stripped back as much as possible to save weight and then modified only in ways that would increase performance. Very much like this Honda CB500.
Fallout 3 Bike
Most guys spend their high school years chasing tail, unsuccessfully trying to buy beer and making every effort to look like Kurt Cobain. Lord knows I did. But that isn’t the path Chris Riffel chose for himself, this inspirational high schooler got a group of friends together, talked some teachers into helping and then set about building a fully functioning Fallout 3 bike, right down to the little radiation emblems on the front and rear.
Wallet & Chain by The Lowly Gentleman
This beautiful retro wallet and chain is made by The Lowly Gentlemen, based out of southern California. The wallet is cowhide with a suede interior and offset cream stitching whilst the cord is modelled on vintage hotrod electrical cables and comes with brass clips at either end.
SR400 by Skull Motorcycles
This SR400 by Skull Motorcycles out of Japan is one of those bikes that makes people sit forward and pay attention. The level of…
H. W. Libbey’s Electric Bicycle
With the surge in popularity of electric bicycles it’s interesting to note that they were first invented in the 19th century, a number of patents were filed around the same time with this one by H. W. Libbey being the closet approximation to the set up electric bicycles have today.
Mele by DP Customs
The guys at DP Customs have a knack for creating hard-tail custom motorcycles that annihilate the stereotypes usually associated with the Harley based bobber/chopper genre and this bike is no exception. Meet the Mele.
Volkswagen Type 2 – Cutaway
The Volkswagen Type 2, more commonly known as the “Kombi Van”, was first introduced by VW in 1950. The Type 1, better known as the “Beetle” was used as the chassis with some essential strengthening taking place to support the additional weight, the original prototypes had horrifically bad aerodynamics (0.75 DC) and so the Germans set about revising the design in the wind tunnel at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
The Graf Zeppelin
The Graf Zeppelin was a hydrogen airship built by Germany over the years 1926, 1927 and 1928, the German’s had just finished building the USS Los Angeles Airship which had been given to the United States as war reparations, and now the they wanted one of their own.
The Mouse Trap by Deus Ex Machina
Deus Ex Machina have a habit of producing off the wall customs, just when you think you’ve pigeon holed them, they go and create something like this.