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Motorcycle Apartments Keep Your Bike Inside

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When you're pressed for space as they are in Japan, you have to get a little creative. This 8 unit apartment complex built on a very small lot has a motorcycle garage in every apartment. There's a central driveway with a curved turnaround in the center of the building with garage doors from all of the 3 story apartments encircling the drive. The building is a concrete … [Read more...]

Ducati Desmosedici 3 Wheeler Concept by Nicolas Petit

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After looking over Nicolas Petit's design for the BMW S1000RR adventure bike, I noticed another re-purposed Superbike, this time, starting with a Ducati Desmosedici, he turns it into a trike. Maybe it's a French thing. Although Ludovic Lazareth has built a few pretty incredible trikes, Nicolas pushes the envelope a bit further with this completely over the top transitional … [Read more...]

BMW S1000RR Adventure Bike from Wunderlich

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So you bought that BMW S1000RR, but what can you do with it besides collect speeding tickets? Why not take it off road, instead? Yes, really, that's the idea behind this WAY over powered S1000RR adventure bike built by Wunderlich, the BMW accessory guys. Let's see, Continental TKC80 knobby tires, Ohlins suspension, Moto-Master brakes, plus numerous other pieces, … [Read more...]

British Customs Japanese Style by Heiwa Motorcycle

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We've had a series of articles on Japanese custom shops with their own unique style, shops like Brat Style, Ritmo Sereno and Gravel Crew to name a few, but their focus is usually more Japanese, sometimes European, with BMWs, but very few British bikes in their collections. This shop, Heiwa Motorcycle, has all of the usual models, but they've done a lot of old British classics, … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Kickstarters – No, the Other Kind

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You've read the stories before, the lone inventor or small company has built a prototype of the next big thing, a revolutionary engine or a fantastic new design for a motorcycle, and all they need now are "investors" to carry it through. They should try Kickstarter. Kickstarter projects, no, not the old lever kind, the money kind, have become the current favorite way to … [Read more...]