- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 16, 2017
2016 was an awesome ride! The custom motorcycle scene is more alive than ever and BikeBrewers.com is very successful in becoming a well-known place to find inspiration for custom bikes. Just like 2015, I want to look back at last year with a top 10 overview of the best custom motorcycles we [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 12, 2017
When I started BikeBrewers.com in the summer of 2015, one of the first posts was about the awesome CX500 Café Racer by Sacha Lakic. I always see this bike as the last piece that made me start blogging about custom motorcycles. A bike that also made the “poor men’s Guzzi” extremely popular [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 14, 2016
Sometimes customizing a bike is more than just switching some parts and changing some colors. Sometimes it’s not. But it’s too simple to give this BMW R NineT, built by Mr. Martini from Italy, the tag “easy, thirteen in a dozen”. It’s te combination of parts and colors used, which makes this bike [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 2, 2016
I have to admit: I’m always a bit proud if a cool custom motorcycle is built in Holland. There is a lot going on in the Dutch scene and it seems that the overall build quality is getting better and better. This machine is built by 14Cycles, a small workshop that emerged [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 1, 2016
Another month, another overview of the best custom motorcycles from around the web. This month a vintage Harley Davidson, a pure performance rocket Ducati, a KTM on high heels, another Ducati and a beautiful BMW R nineT inspired by it’s ancestor. Welcome the best bikes of October 2016 Custom Harley-Davidson by [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: October 25, 2016
This radical machine is built by our friends of NCT Motorcycles (you may remember their cool BMW R100RS Classic Racer) and is based on the legendary Ducati 996. It’s called “Desmofighter 2.0”. No details about the bike, so just some eye candy. But expect are seriously fast machine with a weight (far) [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: October 1, 2016
A BMW from the Bavarian mountains, an undefined but complex engineered 3 cylinder 2-stroke from Ukraine, a Kawasaki Vulcan S from Germany and an out of the box Suzuki GS550 from Holland. Meet our best custom bikes of September 2016. BMW R100R Café Racer “DA#7” by Diamond Atelier Since the guys [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 23, 2016
With this post I’ll try to inspire cafe racer enthusiast to start working on their own Low Budget Cafe Racer. Café racers come in a lot of different setups and prices, from bikes under $1000 and even up to $60,000 (like the CX500 Café Racer from Sacha Lakic). I think it’s not necessary to [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 1, 2016
Holiday season is behind us, we saw a little “dip” in the amount of new custom motorcycles out there, but nevertheless we same some real cool creations this month. This month we have a wide variety of bikes: we have a Moto Guzzi, Honda CBX, a Honda CRF (!), a Triumph Thruxton [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 19, 2016
When the Ducati Multistrada (which means “many roads”) was introduced back in 2003 it was clear that it was something different. Some may found it beautiful, some ugly, but that’s all taste. It was an ambitious try from Ducati to compete with the absolute #1 in this road/off road segment: the [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 1, 2016
Summer is on and the motorcycle season is on full throttle here in the Netherlands (in between the rain…). In the bikes of the month for July we have: 2 KTM’s, 2 BMW’s and a Ducati/Cagiva. BMW R100R Café Racer by Curteskin Atelier A couple of weeks ago I was looking into one of [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 14, 2016
Kymco is a brand most of us know from their scooters and mopeds. I can remember a time here in Holland that every rave-party-die-hard rode one, wearing bomber jacks and Nike Air Max…The successful Taiwanese manufacturer of motor powered two wheelers now wants to shake things more up, aiming at a [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: June 30, 2016
A lot of beautiful custom motorcycles around the web this month: we’ve selected the most outstanding bikes for you. This month we have another amazing bike from (Ducati) legend XTR Pepo, a radical BMW R nineT from Australia, a BMW S1000R from Switzerland a Honda NX650 from South Africa and last [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: May 10, 2016
Fashion and design working together: Thierry Langlois, owner of fashion brand “Atelier 5” has an eye for design and has a strong passion for motorsports. So why not combine those two must Thierry have thought. In “Flash 76“, a French Yamaha dealer, he found a technical partner who could build his bike. It [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: May 2, 2016
Time for a short throwback on April with an overview of some outstanding custom bikes around the web. 2 BMW’s, a Harley and a Triumph. Let’s start with one of the best bikes we found; a BMW R nineT by Diamond Atelier: BMW R nineT by Diamond Atelier Diamond Atelier is [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: April 6, 2016
In today’s custom motorcycle scene we see a lot of builds based on Honda’s, BMW’s & Triumph’s. No problem at all, but if someone is walking a different road by selecting a more odd base bike, it gets my instant attention. The last time I’ve featured a custom motorcycle based on a Buell was in [...]


