I saw Yermo Lamers’ update on LinkedIn late last night. It was a blog post on Miles-by-Motorcycle titled “Corporate Bloggers and a Question of Integrity.” I’m a blogger who also happens to really like people giving him money, so the ...
Read More »rick’s 1981 honda cmt400 bobber
Got an email from Rick with a real one of a kind Honda CMT400 Bobber with a comic strip theme going to it. If you haven’t seen Rick in a few days he’s probably knee deep in hot rods and ...
Read More »2014 retro motorcycle helmets by bell
It was the 1950s in California and America was blossoming. The cold damp and wet trenches were behind them. The sun was shining and the weather was fine. The kustom culture scene was firing up on all cylinders. It was ...
Read More »the troy royal enfield by nino custom custom cycles
Nino Custom Cycles of Delhi India set out to build a bike to complete in the biker build-off during the 2014 India Bike Week. The base of the build was an older Royal Enfield single-cylinder four-stroke mill, cradled in a ...
Read More »honda shadow vt1100 aero bobber
This radical ride by Canadian native Jamie deserves a bit of a background story, so here it is from the builder himself: “In 1998 I was 23 and already playing pro hockey in Switzerland for 4 years. At that time, ...
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1980 Hairy Canary GS850 – Brotherly love, and the bike from a pistachio farmer. Jenny and her husband Mark are El Paso, Texas natives with a custom bike built for his brother, and and equally cool story to go along ...
Read More »kawasaki kz650 by fabwerkz
Got another email the other day, this time from Chris Emmons of Fabwerkz in Dayton, Ohio. What he brought to the table was two pics of a custom 1977 Kawaski KZ-650. Chris and his father built the bike from the frame ...
Read More »the motorcycle is back – do the ride thing
BikeEXIF tweeted a cool video yesterday morning. That’s a lie. They tweeted it months ago, and I thought I published this, but apparently I hit save as draft instead. ****. Anyway… At first glance I thought it was only about ...
Read More »honda cb550 by bullit custom cycles
Got a message from Rob at Bullit Custom Cycles located just outside of Toronto Canada. Bullit specializes in 1970 and 1980 Japanese customs. They specialize in making billet triples and other billet parts for Japanese bikes. Rob got in touch to show off ...
Read More »badass cycles
Getting back to the basics. Motorcycles are, above all else, a toy to most riders in North America. Ridiculous insurance rates, increased helmet and safety laws and a dying interest in hands-on activities from the younger generation have caused a ...
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