- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 17, 2015
California based bike brewer Dustin Kott from Kott Motorcycles loves to build project for customers, but sometimes he makes time to build a bike for his own. The result is this beautiful Honda CB750 Naked Racer. PS. the bike got featured on Velocity channels Naked Speed and quickly transferred to one of Kott’s [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 16, 2015
The Lisbon based bike brewers of Maria Riding Company had a customer with a very specific project: turn a Triumph Bonneville into a “military like scrambler style one-of-a-kind ride”. So when they start designing, they got inspired bij the 2nd World War, and especially on the well known Spitfire fighter plane. [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 15, 2015
Bike related projects on the big crowdfunding platforms are not very common, so this project on Indiegogo has a huge attraction on me as a bike and high tech enthusiast. The 2 bike brewers of “Huge Moto” teamed up with a clear goal: create a complete turnkey custom motorcycle kit for a [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 14, 2015
Totally not capable of pronouncing their name, but the brewers Thanh Đa Tự Garage, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, put this nice ’71 CB750 together. Found this one on Facebook with the following specs: Kawasaki ZX-6R forks Yamaha R6 brakes Ducati 1098 handlebars Classic Firestone tires Open air filters Custom gas tank [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 11, 2015
Most often we see that custom bikes are based on older, classic models. But sometimes we see a creation based upon a brand new bike. Just like this Indian Scout by de brewers of Roland Sands Design. They picked up this 2015 Indian Scout, teared it a part and totally redesigned [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 9, 2015
The Swedish bike brewers of 6/5/4/ Motors have been working on this Ducati 860 GTS and turned it into a real vintage and sporty looking café racer. The Duc had the remarkable 90 degrees V-twin we still see on Ducati’s. Owner Johan Orrestedt found this Ducati in a barn, where it was slowly [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 8, 2015
German brewer Schlachtwerk made a great version of this Yamaha TR1, also know as the XV1000 (Europe) and the slightly modified XV920 (US). They built this brutal bike last year. Not all specifications are published, because it’s been built for (drag)racing. One of their main goals was to reduce the weight of [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 7, 2015
Classified Moto, a Richmond (US) based brewer made an awesome looking custom (the type is not really specified as café racer, bratstyle or scrambler, just “classified”) based on a ’82 Yamaha XV920 Virago, they’ve called the “Shreveport Slammer”. Some mods: 2010 Yamaha R6 front end Benelli Mojave gas tank Custom stainless [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 4, 2015
Stuck in the middle? Check out my Café Racer Building Plan! Building a café racer means that you strip your bike down to only the necessary functions. The stock wiring harness is one of the things you want to strip down to a minimum. If you take a look at your [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 2, 2015
Dutch brewer Tom Mes from ‘Bold Garage‘ was infected by the classic and custom bike scene due to his friends. He did a great job on this Honda CX500 (check this one from Ironwood Custom Motorcycles too) with some cool custom mods like: Custom subframe Custom seat by RachelSarah (who unfortunately is [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 1, 2015
The Argentina bases brewers from Lucky Custom created this awesome Honda CB550 Café Racer, “number 32”. They have put a lot of effort in this Honda, here a list some mods: Custom paint job Frame hoop Bratstyle seat Custom 4 to 1 exhaust 18″ wheels with Firestone tires Special headlight Black [...]