By Adnane BensalahPublished On: September 29, 2021Polish Perfection Somewhere inside an industrial railway building in Warsaw, there’s a garage that turns dreams into reality. Christian Boosen, the man behind 86 Gear Motorcycles, is specialised in building café racers, street trackers, brats, scramblers, you name it. So when a customer walked in to ask for a period correct [...]
By Adnane BensalahPublished On: March 11, 2021Dakar Legend In the past 5 years we have only covered builds that were based on a Yamaha XT. Far too little if you ask us. It is one of Yamaha’s biggest success stories and an absolute Paris-Dakar legend. Yamaha introduced the first XT, the XT500, in 1976 with a 500cc [...]
By Casper van der VenPublished On: February 11, 2024It was a first for the BikeBrewers team. As a concerted effort four members tested a great variety of Rusty Stitches gear and gave our honest and unadulterated opinion. Pictures paint a 1000 words and video does the rest. We decided to go Full Monty on this one with ‘both unboxing and review videos. Don’t watch those, we're awful at video's!
By Casper van der VenPublished On: January 14, 2025This is the third part in the motorcycle travel in Japan series (part I & part II). It picks up after I met a lovely couple in a Thai restaurant near Tottori. Crossing the Chūgoku Range The next morning, as I sat in a cafe enjoying a cup of coffee, I [...]
By Casper van der VenPublished On: November 20, 2024In the first part of this story about motorcycle travel in Japan, I had just reached Takayama. In this part, we pick up where we left off and make tracks west along the northern coast of the Kyoto Prefecture into Tottori Prefecture. Takayama One of the local specialties is beef from [...]
By Casper van der VenPublished On: September 11, 2024When another BMW Bobber rolls out of the Walzwerk or Ironwood garage we know what to expect. It is all the more surprising when a BMW Bobber of the same build quality rolls out of a garage that is not that well known (yet!)
By Casper van der VenPublished On: January 12, 2024
By Ron BetistPublished On: October 28, 2022The new Royal Enfield HNTR350, aiming to win over a younger audience With this model, Royal Enfield tries to make motorcycling and commuting by motorcycle accessible and attractive to a younger audience. Think new riders, students, young working professionals, perhaps even as a second, lighter motorcycle. The lines remind [...]
By Adnane BensalahPublished On: August 28, 2022Some time ago we received a care package from Rusty Stitches. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, we suggest you start reading this first. The now Dutch band of misfits is working hard to make a name for themselves in the custom and urban motorcycle riding gear [...]
By Ron BetistPublished On: August 23, 2022Ready. Set. SCRAM! I had some time, I just wanted to ride. No frills, no haste, no frustration. And then I got the email. ‘We still have the Scram for you to ride and review if you like?’ And that was it. As you can imagine, this isn’t a powerhouse. It [...]
By Adnane BensalahPublished On: June 20, 2022Gear Up! When it comes to motorcycle gear, we have a pretty good idea of what works, and what doesn’t. It really helps that our entire editorial team are petrol-heads of the highest order. This also means that we test out gear to the absolute limit. But sometimes, you want something [...]
By Ron BetistPublished On: February 25, 2022While Northern European countries were being terrorized by the winter storm ‘Eunice’, a group of motorcycle journalists from the Netherlands, Belgium and France were whisking around in the sun and 20° degrees Celsius.
By Ron BetistPublished On: February 6, 2022Superlative To top off three consecutive weeks of riding big (or should I say GIANT?) bikes I was offered the opportunity to test the 2021 Triumph Rocket 3R for a full seven days. And what a week it turned out to be! The prelude to this week was composed by the [...]
By Ron BetistPublished On: February 4, 2022Dressed to stay alive We all have our preferences when it comes to dressing up for a ride. What you wear depends on a variety of parameters dictating the outcome. ‘Full on’ motorcycle gear will serve the best protection against weather conditions and when gravitational forces cause you to involuntarily part [...]
By Ron BetistPublished On: November 2, 2021The Ducati Panthah Let’s first rewind to the year 1976. When Ducati’s 350 cc and 500 cc parallel twins could hardly be called a marketing success, their fabulous engineer Fabio Taglioni set tout to develop a replacement. The Pantah 500 originates from the last of the GP500 racers of 1973. The [...]
By Ron BetistPublished On: October 3, 2021Mokum* Moto Depot’s Mission: Make Ownership Easy Recently BikeBrewers’ editor Ron Betist interviewed our buddy Dan (Nubbs) Sugrue about his plans to create a much needed space for motorcyclists and likeminded people. But before we go into that first a little bit of history from Ron’s perspective. Birth of the Amsterdam [...]
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