The end game came fast for the Chopper scene, with many of the builders who’d become household names going broke overnight. Suddenly those six-figure builds…
A garage for special motorcycles and cafe racers
It seems every time we catch up with Wenley Andrews he’s just turned out another killer custom creation that raises the bar as to just how cool a bike can be.
Despite the incredible motorcycles that have been coming out of Italy for more than a hundred years, even the biggest of manufacturers has gone through…
When it comes to iconic 1970s middleweights, the Kawasaki KZ650 tends to be forgotten. But this hotrod from Sweden is tastier than a warm glass of Glögg on a cold winter night.
Having sadly not yet had the opportunity to meet Pepo Rosell in person, nor seen his workshop I can only imagine a nutty professor style underground lair with…
Jeff Soucek likens his Ducati SportClassic to a Kobe steak: perfect as-is. So he's kept his mods minimal and tasteful.
Sweden’s Adam Nestor is an old hand at this whole Pipeburn feature bike thing. His bikes have been featured by us since 2010, and he’s just dropped this…
Pipeburn is full of stories concerning engineering genii who make us all look like drunken monkeys when it comes to customising a bike. Guilty as charged.
They are two of the greatest motorcycle designers the world has known, master Massimo Tamburini and student Pierre Terblanche, responsible for some of the most…
Scramblers - BMW R NineT Retro Scrambler by Ares Design
Dan Moto have been building exhausts that please owners and piss off neighbours for the last ten years. And as their catalogue of bike parts expands quicker…
Tank Machine x Rise Designs Grind Machine Closer Look: This rugged French custom take on the Indian Chief has caught our attention.
It will come as no surprise to Pipeburn readers, the general public or even your garden-variety buddhist hermit that there’s a real flood of ‘70s-era BMW…
The discovery of new shops and custom bikes is by far the best part of our jobs. Waking up each morning to emails containing virtual goldmines of moto coolness…
We’ve seen builds from the Poland-based crew of Unikat. They have their own style, making them instantly recognizable from afar. In the past couple of years Unikat has built quite a reputation for themselves, especially with their unique 1-of-1 project that usual revolve around Triumph motorcycles.
Written by Tim Huber. Produced from 1998 to 2001, Triumph’s Legend TT is basically a more affordable, less flashy version of the Thunderbird 900.
‘英’ is the Japanese Kanji character for ‘great.’ It also happens to be the character that the Japanese use for ‘England’. See, when Japan first properly met the…
Hand-manufactured lightweight motorcycles designed with a simple and classical approach. Find out more here.
The use of ‘ram air’ intake designs, either for increased airflow into the engine or for cooling, has been around the motorcycle world for decades.
