Tag: Motorcycle

Germany's One Way Machine takes a break from its usual fare to convert a 2001-model Harley-Davidson Softail Deuce into a chopper for the open road.Julian von Oheimb's signature style is as consistent as it is inimitable. The Harley-Davidson bobbers that roll out of his workshop, One Way Machine, are...

This Honda CX400 café racer cuts a sharp silhouette despite its quirky DNA, thanks to Tokyo's Minami Motorcycle.'Ultimate simplicity' isn't quite how we would describe the fabled Honda CX500. Its blocky longitudinal V-twin motor was an oddball, paired with an awkward silhouette and bodywork that nev...

Long before the advent of liquid-cooled adventure bikes and specialized motocross weapons, there was the scrambler. In the 1960s and 70s, "scrambling" was a simple affair: take a lightweight street bike, add high-mount pipes for water crossings, knobby tires for traction, and a braced handlebar for ...

Fitting for the holiday season, we’re reaching for a bottle with genuine American road dust in its veins: Ben Holladay 1856 Original One Barrel Bourbon, aged eight years. It’s a whiskey with a Western backstory as compelling as the liquid inside, the kind that feels right poured slowly at the end of...

The 1977 Harley-Davidson XLCR is often described as a failure, which is technically correct and intellectually lazy. It didn’t sell well, it confused the dealer network and it landed with a thud in a marketplace already dominated by faster, cheaper, more technically advanced motorcycles from Japan a...

Forget the clichés of the commuter hack or the pizza delivery drone. When a talented builder gets their hands on a scooter like a Vespa, a Lambretta, or even a humble Honda Cub, the results can be just as breathtaking, challenging, and technically brilliant as any large-capacity custom motorcycle. T...

2LOUD Custom's latest build is a 2014-model Harley Sportster Forty-Eight street tracker with mixed elements and a performance bend.Harley-Davidson's new-generation Sportster S is a cocktail of ideas that, despite the Motor Co.'s best efforts, misses the mark. It has the bodywork of a flat tracker, t...

Few factory motorcycles have ever managed to tap into the well of nostalgia with the same precision and panache as the Ducati SportClassic series. Released in 2005, the family of bikes—including the Sport 1000, GT 1000, and the legendary Limited Edition was the brainchild of designer Pierre Terblanc...

Trends and tradition are two major themes of what we do around here at Bike EXIF. We’re always watching out for the next hottest thing making waves, but at the same time, the motorcycling hobby has an intense reverence for its past. It’s all about bowing your head to where we’ve been, while imaginin...

If I ask you to picture a “dune buggy,” what comes to mind? Chances are you’ve imagined the shape of a Meyers Manx without even realizing it. When sailor, surfer, and fiberglass boat-builder Bruce Meyers created the first Manx, he had no idea he was launching an entirely new type of vehicle — one th...