- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 14, 2017
Last week I’ve featured this awesome custom Kawasaki W800 and I was complaining about the fact that the I only see a few Kawasaki W-series being customized. Call it a coincidence or just randomness, but today I’ve found another custom W. This time it’s a cool looking Kawasaki W650 Brat built [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 13, 2017
Riding off road really is fun to do and if you’re not that worried about cold and snow, you can have a lot of fun in winters too! Just grab an enduro our MX machine and throw yourself around. Try it! It’s cool (and not only because of the low temperatures). [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 12, 2017
In this article, I’ll try to explain how to true a motorcycle wheel. Got the spokes in place? Great! Not there yet? Read this article how to lace a motorcycle wheel. For some it may be dark art which only a few people can do, but I think it’s a job [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 10, 2017
The Kawasaki W800 could be called an instant modern classic. No racer, but an easy goin’ cruiser: powered by a torquey 773cc parallel twin with that typical classic look and sound. While most of the time the modern classics of Triumph are an easy pick as a donor bike, the W800 is [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 8, 2017
Unstoppable super-builder Jose “Pepo” Rosell delivers another radical machine based on a 2003 Ducati Monster. If you’ve seen Pepo’s other works, you can recognize his work in a split second. This bike is called “Pata Negra” and is a bike built for endurance racing and has written “performance” all over it. [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 8, 2017
Small sized motorcycles are very popular in Brazil and they’re usually meant to bring one from A to B in a cheap and efficient way, nothing more, nothing less. The Yamaha Fazer 250 (or YS 250) is a bike specifically built for the Brazilian market and is introduced back in 2005 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 7, 2017
Stumbled on this cool Honda CB750 Bol d’Or cafe racer built by Classic Way Atelier from Portugal.
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 3, 2017
When I was in Barcelona last year I visited Fuel Bespoke Motorcycles and met the owner Karles Vives. Great to have a look at his workshop and talk about custom bikes. Since his shop was full with ongoing projects I asked if he ever has time to ride these machines. His answer [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 2, 2017
As promised at the end of 2016, I’m trying to post more projects from “shed builders”, “one-timers” and hobbyists (and guys with 2 left hands like myself). I hope that I can inspire others to create their own machine some day, just like Nicolas Pommier from Dijon, France. Which is in [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 1, 2017
The guys from NCT Motorcycles seem unstoppable! With 2 bikes finished in our Top 10 Customs of 2016 (this CB550 and this R100) and an impressive list of custom bikes on their name. This is the latest creation of the Austrian “superbuilders” David Widmann, Kurt Kosjek and Manuel Tilke. It’s based [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 31, 2017
After our photo contest for Best Custom of 2016, we’re up for a new Bikes of the Month. Like every month we’ve selected the best customs from around the web. This month we have a Ducati 750 from Down Under, a BMW K100 from the US, a Yamaha XSR700 from France, [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 30, 2017
NCT Motorcycles from Austria is becoming one of those “well-known builders” and they keep producing very cool custom motorcycles. In our photo contest for “best custom of 2016”, they even had 2 bikes in the Top 10. Their latest machine, a radical Ducati 848, will soon be published on BikeEXIF, but [...]