Cruisers
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Yard Built Heads to Turkey for a Tracker Style XSR700 by Bunker Custom Motorcycles
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With spring well and truly underway Yamaha heads to Istanbul in Turkey to collaborate with a new member of the Yard Built family, Bunker Custom Motorcycles. Brothers, Can and Mert Uzer are not your typical custom bike builders. Can is a top level skateboarder with the Vans Turkey Skateboarding Team, while Mert recently gave…
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Zenith reached: once this happens it’s game over for the hipster bikers, surely?
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OK, maybe the custom-thing isn’t actually over as such – but we’re all a bit open-jawed having seen these pictures. This was a 1996 Honda XR650L that’s been given a, quote: “More rugged and ready-for-anything aesthetic”. Umm… OK. It looks quite ridiculous to us, but someone out there loves it enough to have it built…
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German press shows this: Mega six-cylinder naked with six exhausts and K1600 engine… yeah…
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OK, so this is a rumour – and from what we can gather from our German cousins on the excellent Motorrad magazine, there’s little to move this story on from that rather precarious position – but still, check this story out! What we have here is the illustration by Stefan Kraft that shows a massive…
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Spy shots! Husky Vitpilen cafe racer snapped out in first tests on the road!
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Here are spy pictures of the Husqvarna Vitpilen cafe racer for the road as it’s put through its first set of road tests abroad. The bike is heavily drab with black bodywork and a temporary exhaust and silencer – the wheels are a far cry from the spoked versions (or the fatter-spoked mag arm wheels)…
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Rumour? BMW to launch muscle cruiser rival to the Ducati XDiavel?
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German magazine Motorrad believes that BMW is building an XDiavel crusher – a muscle cruiser pared back to basics to try and take on the likes of the popular Italian model. It’s just a rumour at the moment – and there’s no solid leads on much of this (other than the rumour itself) – and…
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Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016
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Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016. This is the new Harley-Davidson Roadster – the latest addition to the firm’s Sportster range. It comes in four colours; vivid black with a charcoal denim pinstripe, black denim with a red pinstripe and velocity red sun Sunglo with a red pinstripe. The vivid black scheme will cost…
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Spain, Poland and Greece Rule the 2016 Yamaha Dealer Built Competition
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On Thursday 31st March the second edition of the Yamaha Dealer Built competition came to a close after an impressive round of voting. Over 22,000 votes were cast for builds from across Europe, as custom bike fans got online to register their appreciation and deliver three category winners; Spain’s Eduardo Castro Motors in the Mono/…
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Honda’s secret designs for the MORPHING tourer in 2017 – REVEALED
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Honda’s secret designs for the MORPHING tourer in 2017 – REVEALED. Honda’s next step in motorcycle evolution is going to be tourers and sport tourers that actually change the footrests, footboard AND seat construction underneath you as you ride. With the morphing seat patent it shows how both the rider and pillion seats change shape…
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Indian introduces ‘Frontier 111’ custom Springfield
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Indian Motorcycle has just revealed the Frontier 111, the first custom Indian Springfield. The bike has been crafted by Len Edmondson of Azzkikr Custom Baggers from Phoenix, Arizona, and Indian calls it a thoroughly modern retro bagger that features classic lines and contemporary, artistic flare. The Frontier 111 has a skirted front fender, a leaf-spring…
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Glorious new images of the Husqvarna 2017 cafe racer emerge. VERY pretty stuff!
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It was on October 5 last year that we brought you the exclusive quote from one of two managing directors of Husqvarna, Reinhold Zens that: “I can tell you that they will come as 2017 models,” – he was talking about the Svartpilen and Vitpilen cafe racer and scrambler models – and so here we…
