The results are in for the 2011 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building held at Sturgis, SD, and looking over the winners, it’s plain as day the world has changed dramatically from only a few years ago. The stretched out, fat tire bikes have given way to all sorts of bikes, visually radical to [...]
Custom motorcycles
In 1923, BMW introduced the R32, the company’s first foray into the motorcycle manufacturing business. The 500cc 8.5 horsepower boxer, set the design and styling cues that BMW still follows in many ways. A lot of enthusiasts love the look of the original, but let’s face it, as an every day rider today, it’s simply [...]
Tyson Timperley, owner of Speedconcepts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin thought we might be interested in “Fatty,” a Yamaha R1 powered custom just a few months old that has a pretty unique look. It seems Tyson and Fatty’s owner Todd Treffert, were in a Milwaukee bar late one night, talking bikes. You know how that goes, another [...]
What was I just saying the other day about not seeing very many mix and match frames and engines in custom bikes? Bill Shank thought we might like to see what he put together in his garage, his KR800, a Kawasaki ZZR1200 mated to a Rotax 800cc 2 stroke engine from a 2003 Ski-Doo. He [...]
