What do you do with a half finished 2001 Buell X1 Lightning project bike? That was the question facing John Whitby when he saw it. His friend, Mark Blundell, runs a salvage yard in Canada where the owner brought the non running Buell to get it off his hands. When John and Mark later looked at the Buell, adding new plugs, a battery and some fuel, they had a runner, though still … [Read more...]

All of those sheds in England must be absolute beehives of activity. After our article on the Enigma, we got a note from Shaun Wainford of Middlesbrough England who thought we might be interested in a little project he has underway. It's called "Barbarian." As seen here it represents about 3 years of spare time work. It's not quite done yet, but it's a great peek inside a … [Read more...]

We've all seen Sportsters for sale with assorted Storz street tracker parts added on and they're usually pretty nice bikes, but this one is definitely different. This is a 1995 Sportster 883 Storz bought new, way back when, to use as a showcase for all of the pieces he had in the catalog. It had the pampered life of a celebrity, it spent a couple of years at motorcycle shows … [Read more...]

Last month we told you about the three builders Yamaha chose to modify the new Vmax. Each builder went his own way and this is what Roland Sands came up with. Most impressive, is the extremely short time frame each builder had, only 3 weeks! When you see the results, you have to respect the experience being brought to the task, novice builders would be in the design and mockup … [Read more...]

Fabrizio Di Bella, who brought us the McDeeb series of Royal Enfield specials inspired by early classic British designs, has been hard at work and using the Royal Enfield Bullet Classic 500 EFI as the platform, brings us a new classic motorcycle, only this time the inspiration comes from Italy. The new Taurus G28 is inspired by the original 500cc Taurus G27 built in the 1940s … [Read more...]