Archive for 'Motorcycle Shows' Category
Stonebridge Motor Company Ace Cafe Racer
20 February 2008The Stonebridge Motor Company is a new outfit set up by Nick Gale Custom Cycles and the Ace Cafe for their combined effort to build a bike for the S&S Cycles 50th Anniversary build off in late June. Their new web site will detail all of the build up using one of the S&S SB-Series [...]
SE-Service Esox Lucius
14 February 2008This one-and-only Championship custom motorcycle is for sale. Current World Champion of Custom Bike Building, Stellan Egeland, of SE-Service in Sweden, is offering up for sale his 2006 contender “Esox Lucius”.
After meeting Stellan and his wife at the 2007 World Championship in Sturgis, where he took first place for his Hulster 8-Valve, we [...]
Robbie Maddison Sets New Motorcycle Jump record
2 January 2008Starting out the new year with a motorcycle jump record, Robbie Maddison of Australia made a leap of 322 feet, 7 1/2 inches at the Rio Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. Although I don’t follow this sort of thing, reports say it’s double what the late Evel Knievel managed in his career. Maddison plans [...]
Why Not Build Street Legal Custom Motorcycles?
9 December 2007When big name builders show off their new custom creations, you can usually bet some piece of required hardware for street legal operation will be missing, sometimes many pieces. Critics of the manufacturers say their new models don’t look as good as what the aftermarket and custom builders turn out but that criticism is a [...]
Roland Sands Custom Ducati Hypermotard
9 December 2007Roland Sands unveiled a custom version of the Ducati Hypermotard at the Long Beach International Motorcycle Show. No other info on this other than what you see. I’m sure this one will ignite the Ducati faithful. I like this a lot more than the standard Hypermotard though you might need to muffle that exhaust a [...]
Jesse Rooke’s KTM Based Cafe Racer
9 December 2007Jesse Rooke is showing his latest custom, done in the style of a KTM powered cafe racer, at the Long Beach International Motorcycle Show. Mathieu sent in a link to this photo and it looks pretty neat.
We noticed this bike in progress back in March when it was up on his web site in [...]
Suzuki SXForce Motorcycle Themed Show Car
6 November 2007Suzuki motorcycles are big sellers and well known in the marketplace, Suzuki cars, not so much. They have been trying to get a little motorcycle magic to rub off on their automotive line with TV ads where both appear side by side but at the SEMA show, this SXForce show car was on display where [...]
Yamaha Tokyo Motor Show Special Site
2 November 2007If you’re among the vast majority who could not make it to the Tokyo Motor Show, Yamaha has put together a special site with all of their motorcycles that were on display. It’s pretty nice. Everything is there with 360 degree rotations and you get to see them all, the Sakura, the MT-01, even close [...]
