There’s an unavoidable disconnect between a concept motorcycle, and the final production version of it. By the time you’ve added all the stuff you need to make a bike street legal and sufficiently practical, your original design is likely to get watered down. Unless you’re Zero Motorcycles, of course. A couple of years ago, the…
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Bizarro Corp.’s online store has a T-shirt that reads “café racer is dead.” It’s a little rich coming from a custom workshop with a number of café racers in their portfolio. Then again, the Spanish crew isn’t exactly known for being conventional. If you need proof, we’d like to present ‘Esputnik II’: an electric drag…
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Dirt bikes can make surprisingly good road customs, mostly due to their light weight and the easy tune-ability of most offroad powertrains. But an electric dirt bike? That’s something you don’t often see. ‘Blackbird’ comes from Italian builder Christian Moretti, who runs Plan B Motorcycles from his base in Laveno-Mombello, just outside Milan. Clad in…
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Motorcycle historian Paul d’Orléans takes a deep dive for Iron & Air into the uneasy but essentially productive relationship between the modern-day custom scene and design teams at the major manufacturers. In the ancient days of the 1990s, custom motorcycles were incredibly popular, but their baroque excess made them irrelevant to the motorcycle industry. The…
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We’re beyond debating whether or not the future of personal transportation is electric. Government bans on internal combustion engines are no longer…
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What would the legendary Bratstyle builder, Go Takamine, do with an Indian Chief? We’ve got the answer, along with a Zero SR/F…
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Australia’s Grid Cycles know electric bikes are a blast. They know they’re damn quick, they know they’re simple, and they know they’re…
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This week, Kawasaki revealed its rather attractive new middleweight, the Z650RS. We also take a look at a sleek XT500-inspired enduro from…
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The French are out in full force this week, with a Katana from Lucky Cat Garage and an R nineT from Le…
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Electric motorcycles are a paradigm shift on so many levels, but any worries that they might kill the custom scene are unfounded.…
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It’s common for custom builders to develop a signature aesthetic, but few maintain it as zealously as Droog Moto. The husband and…
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Truly great motorcycle design requires a human touch. That’s why, in a world of digital design and 3D rendering, traditional crafts are…
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