Cruisers
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Awesome Bobber made from a Honda CBX – it’s a six cylinder work of chop-shop art!
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Awesome Bobber made from a Honda CBX – it’s a six cylinder work of chop-shop art! Check out this lovely chunk of metal – it’s a particularly sweet Bobber (and the first bike) from the Swiss bike builder / customiser pb33. The bike started out as a 1981 Honda SC06 CBX Prolink (pictured below). Part…
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Polaris parting company with Victory motorcycles
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Polaris parting company with Victory motorcycles. Polaris is parting company with Victory motorcycles. The parent company has announced that it will immediately begin winding down its Victory Motorcycles brand and related operations. Here’s what Polaris said in a press release on the ending of the partnership: “Polaris will assist dealers in liquidating existing inventories while…
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Video: AMAZING self balancing Honda REVEALED at Las Vegas tech show – check this out! It’ll blow your mind!
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Video: AMAZING self balancing Honda REVEALED at Las Vegas tech show – check this out! It’ll blow your mind! We’re loving this from Honda – a self balancing prototype that’s just been unveiled at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. Honda isn’t saying when (or indeed, if) this ‘Riding Assist’ will be seen on…
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine!
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine! Here’s a story from our friends in Japan that’s going to get the motorcycle world hopping around in New Year excitement – a return of the RD350! Kind of! What this story surrounds is news from our friends at Japanese…
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Amazing custom boxers from Japan
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Japanese custom shop Ritmo Sereno specialises in boxer engines, and has built an impressive portfolio of custom BMWs, Moto Guzzis and BSAs. There’s plenty more custom goodness on their website, but here are a couple of particularly nice examples of their work.
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Video: RSD X Indian Hooligan does a riverbed jump
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We’ll let you make your own mind up about this – this is a video from stage diver and bike builder Roland Sands (look through our previous pages to see him ride this bike off a stage! Superstar!) that shows his Indian Sportster special Hooligan bike doing some stuff. The bike weighs nearly 220kg and…
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OK, weird: This is a motorcycle with the bodywork made of STONE. Yeah, stone.
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OK, weird: This is a motorcycle with the bodywork made of STONE. Yeah, stone. What a time to be alive! We have bikes from both BMW and Ducati with Carbon chassis, wheels and component parts – the products of companies striving to take things to the lightest form possible – and now we have this!…
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Suzuki Turbo AND Supercharged AND big-twin 2016 patents wrap-up
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It’s been over a year since we brought you the scoop on those Suzuki patents showing the firm’s plans for a turbo, supercharged and new big-twin for 2017 (possibly). So we thought we’d remind you of what’s coming. On July 6 2015, we were the first to bring you these production drawings of the Suzuki…
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Sweet special: This is a Yamaha MT-03. Yep. Looks brilliant.
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Sweet special: This is a Yamaha MT-03. Yep. Looks brilliant. Check out this super sweet MT-03 special dirt-tracker. Built by German custom house Kingston Customs the bike is essentially the same MT-03 in terms of engine and major components but what KC has done has really made a difference. The special gets semi-knobbly tyres, a…
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Launch ride: Triumph Bonneville Bobber
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WORDS: John Milbank, editor of Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine PHOTOGRAPHY: Triumph It seems I’m the only person in the UK who didn’t really like the Bobber when it was launched. In photos I thought it looked too bulky at the front. Even in the metal at Motorcycle Live I wasn’t impressed. This was a…
