Motorcycle Modification

  Some bikes are engineered to travel far—others to appear flash. We’ll allow you to decide that class latest creation falls into radical built . It’s no coincidence that looks like “head turner” Renounces style attribute is deliberately highly strong. His client a designer shares philosophy. “The man has style, and could be a natural" After 2 phone calls, temporary was outlined and also the project engaged in. the thought was simple: an enormous engine, crammed into a radical built package. With four cylinders, sixteen valves and 100 horses on faucet, a 1980-model Suzuki GSX1100 was picked because the donor.  Karl knew that the most effective thanks to highlight the the Zook’s monstrous station, was to attenuate everything around it—so the build launched with associate intensive destroy. In the end, all that remained was the cast and one or two of steel tubes.  The original set up was to switch simply the rear loop, however builder ...

Husqvarna Nuda customs I was pretty excited when the Husqvarna Nuda 900R was released in 2012—and equally disappointed when it was discontinued, following Pierer Industrie AG’s acquisition of the Italian marque a year ago. The supermoto-esque naked featured a punched out, 898cc version of the Rotax twin-cylinder mill found in BMW’s F800 series, and a tubular steel frame. This particular Nuda belongs to Marc Woodward, an ex-motorcycle racer based in Brighton who builds café racers as a hobby. As an ex-racer, Marc says his philosophy “is to try and create café racers that handle and go as good as they look.” He takes this philosophy fairly seriously—his radically restyled Nuda now kicks out a healthy 110bhp, thanks to a full Arrow race exhaust system and a remapped ECU. It also features the front end from a Ducati 1198S, earning it the ‘Huscati’ nickname. The Ducati’s Öhlins forks have been re-sleeved to fit the Nuda’s stock yokes, which have been milled to remove...

Clean Café Racer and Street Tracker Richard Pollock knows a thing or two about street trackers. Doing business as Mule Motorcycles out of a converted two-car garage in suburban San Diego, he’s built about 100 trackers to date, and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, now that his full-time job as an aerospace fabricator has morphed into part-time consultancy, he has more time than ever to devote to two-wheelers, including doing R&D and prototyping for Streetmaster, a small Southern California speed house for new Triumph Bonnevilles. Pollock’s bread and butter, though, are specials based on two powerplants: Harley-Davidson’s Evo Sportster V-twin and Yamaha’s venerable XS650, the so-called “Japanese Bonneville” and about as good an air-cooled parallel-twin as anybody has ever made. Mule’s latest build is an XS650 with a difference. Strictly speaking it’s not a street-tracker; there are touches of café-racer mixed in. Let’s call it, then, a “café-tracker.” ...

There must be something in the water (or the gasolina ) on the Iberian Peninsula. The custom motorcycle scene in Spain is booming, and Portugal is not far behind. This is the latest build from Porto’s Ton-Up Garage; it’s a classy Triumph Bonneville T100 that could pass as a desirable limited edition from the Hinckley factory itself. According to Ton-Up’s Pedro Oliveira, “Our goal was to build a classic urban motorcycle—with fine lines, an elegant shape and distinguished colors. Our client lives in Lisbon, and he wanted a bike to use daily in the city center.” So Ton-Up started with a 2002-model T100, finished in green and silver, and with a full complement of chrome. The engine was repainted black, new air filters fitted and the carbs re-jetted to match. On went a pair of off-road exhaust pipes, similar in style to the originals but freer-flowing (and a little bit louder). Ton-Up chopped the rear frame and built a completely new section designed to hou...