Are you a fan of the BMW R18? I am, and I’m loving this custom build from Mandrill Garage.
The good folks at Mandrill Garage managed to take the big cruiser and dress it up a little bit.
The guys over at Pipeburn featured this bike. Let’s take a closer look.
Continue reading “Custom BMW R18 by Mandrill Garage”If you’re looking for a different take on the classic airhead BMW motorcycles, then you need to check out Niks Motorcycles Nightmare BMW R80.
The bike is a beautiful, lean, black machine, and one of the coolest R80s that I’ve seen ever.
Niks Motorcycles has built a truly unforgettable machine here.
Continue reading “BMW R80 “Nightmare” by Niks Motorcycles”Single-cylinder motorcycles are some of my favorites. Yamaha’s XT600 bikes are some of the best out there. And this is a beautiful custom Yamaha XT600.
This particular bike built by Unik Edition who I have reported on before is a truly beautiful machine.
It’s a dual-sport, adventure, scrambler machine like no other.
Continue reading “Custom Yamaha XT600 “113” by Unik Edition”This year has seen some odd and frankly horrible things, including a global pandemic, so as far as getting weird goes, I think we’re all entitled. This Supercharged Honda GL1000 Gold Wing cafe racer is the kind of weird I encourage.
The bike is the last thing you’d expect when you think Gold Wing, from the beautiful red paint to the low handlebars to the funky vertically oriented headlight.
It’s an odd bike and fitting one for 2020. Railman Mark Nevitt built it, and I’m sure glad he did.
Continue reading “Supercharged Honda GL1000 Gold Wing Custom Cafe Racer”This Kawasaki KZ750 Twin cafe racer built by STG Tracker out of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is one of the reasons I included the KZ in my recent list of best motorcycles to customize.
This particular cafe racer shows that you can build pretty much anything out of a good KZ.
This bike is a 1976, and the team at STG Tracker transformed the bike.
Continue reading “This Kawasaki KZ750 TwinCafe Racer Built by STG Tracker Is Built Right”
Something I’ve been asked more than once is, “what are the best classic motorcycles to customize?”
I usually tell people the first thing they need to do if they have a classic motorcycle is to learn how to maintain it in its stock form. Then they can think about customization.
There’s nothing wrong with having a stock motorcycle. However, I completely get the appeal of a customized motorcycle. It allows you to put a personalized touch on your own machine and is quite clearly an art form. If you’re looking for a good bike, I have the list for you.
Continue reading “5 Best Classic Motorcycles to Customize”There are plenty of awesome cafe racers out there, but this Honda CB1300 called the “Muscle Racer” by Thomas Danet might take the cake.
This model has been gone through from top to bottom, and it’s as unique as they come.
The bike is dark, handsome, and ready for action. It’s a beautiful custom motorcycle unlike others out there.
Continue reading “This Honda CB1300 ‘Muscle Racer’ by Thomas Danet Is an Awesome Custom Bike”There are plenty of killer custom Harley motorcycles out there, but this custom Harley-Davidson Turbo Shovelhead by Christain T. Newman is perhaps the most impressive I’ve seen in a while.
The bike looks like no other Harley bobber out there that I’ve seen. Newman really crafted a piece of work with this bike.
The bike is a 1978 Harley-Davidson Shovelhead. Newman took it and transformed it into what you see here at his home shop.
Continue reading “Check Out This Awesome Custom Harley-Davidson Turbo Shovelhead”Here’s a unique and interesing bike that I didn’t expect to see. It’s a Honda XL175 Bobber.
The builder Andrew Fletcher-Love took the Honda and transformed it into something seriously different. This is a bobber that looks unlike others.
Just when you think you’ve seen about everything, someone comes out with something new and killer.
Continue reading “Honda XL175 Bobber by Andrew Fletcher-Love”Nicola Martini is known as Mr. Martini in the custom bike world, and he built a Harley-Davidson Softail Cafe Racer out of an HD Fat Boy.
When most people think Fat Boy, they don’t think cafe racer. The Softail model is a cruiser best known for its solid cast wheels and badass attitude.
This transformation is a striking one and shows just how versatile the Fat Boy can be in the right hands.
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