- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 4, 2016
The Lisbon based brewers of Maria Riding Company have a respectful track record filled with awesome custom motorcycles, mainly built for their customers. Just like this Triumph Bonneville Scrambler. Their customer had no clear instructions. “Our client just wanted big all terrain tires, nice brakes, suspensions and a respectful sound”. After building [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 2, 2016
Yamaha has a long history of building powerful sport bikes. Back in 1978, when the XS1100 was introduced (also called XS Eleven or XS11), it was the most powerful and largest displacement Japanese motorcycle on the market with an amazing 95hp, which is transferred to the rear wheel trough a shaft drive. [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 1, 2016
So, that was the first month of 2016! A good moment to look back and see which custom motorcycles stood. Not only bikes featured here, but also on fellow blogs. This month we’ve selected two BMW R NineT’s, a Honda CB750, a Honda Scrambler and an Indian Scout. BMW R NineT Café [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 29, 2016
$350 dollar for the base bike, or better: frame. And parts from 9 other bikes to create this cool custom Honda CX500. Josh Deardorff always dreamed of his own café racer, so he decided to build one. No experience at all, but almost everything is done by himself. Last year Josh [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 27, 2016
We don’t see a lot of small sized custom bikes around, last year we’ve featued one or two small engined Honda’s, but most builders choose larger 2 or 4 cylinder base bikes. But by accident I stumble on this cool Suzuki GN125 Street Tracker, built by a certain “Thomas” from France: [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 26, 2016
The MV Agusta Brutale 800 is a great naked bike by itself, but Officine GP Design from Turin (Italy) had a different view on the MV and made a one of custom bike. The MV Agusta ONE. A modern street fighter with combined with authentic classic details. Cool items are the spoked [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 22, 2016
Yes: I’m a huge fan of Indian motorcycles. Especially the really old (and rare) ones. But also the latest models can make my heart run a little faster. The custom Indian I’ve featured was the beautiful creation of Roland Sands, which also was number 5 in our top 10 custom motorcycles of [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 20, 2016
CX500 Café Racer by Sacha Lakic Unless the fact that we’ve chosen Sacha Lakic’s Honda CX500 Café Racer as the most beautiful custom motorcycle of 2015, and the fact that we’ve seen a lot of cool custom CX500’s last year, it’s been a while since we’ve posted one. Luckily we did not [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 19, 2016
One of the reasons to start with BikeBrewers is to get and give inspiration on building custom motorcycles. One of our Dutch readers, Oz, got his hands on a ’79 Honda CB550 and turned it into a one-off machine: Oz takes his hobby very serious and overhauled the complete motorcycle. Every [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 18, 2016
Guest post by Jason from Caferacerforsale.com Buying a Café Racer with absolutely no Clue where to Start –Comprehensive Guide In the hot summer sun it is more than impossible to look composed and cool in a car. You will be longing for the wind to glide over your face just to [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 15, 2016
We know Ed Turner from his amazing Custom Honda CX500 “Japan Style” he built in 2015 (check it out here). This cool bike was all over the web and social media and gained a lot of positive feedback. This time, Ed built a cool Honda Scrambler, based on a parallel CB125 K5 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 14, 2016
Random found custom BMW R80 Café Racer by Craig Jones. Beautiful clean design.


