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Yamaha R1 Girder Front Suspension

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Girder front suspensions are pretty much as old as motorcycles and you see them on custom bikes all the time but not very often on sportbikes. This Yamaha R1 streetfighter from R1 Engineering is being fitted with a girder setup and it looks pretty neat. There's no reason this shouldn't work great and it will be interesting to see the finished bike. Thanks for the tip, … [Read more...]

Blastard by GS Motor Company

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Over the last few days we've been talking about all of the small displacement motorcycles being imported and modified in countries all over the world, except in the USA. Well, there is a small displacement affordable bike available for modification here, the 500cc Buell Blast and Greg Socha's GS Motor Company has one example of what you might do with it, it's called the … [Read more...]

Stonebridge Motor Company Ace Cafe Racer

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The 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 engines. They'll be building a limited edition of 100 of these bikes to be sold in Europe, America … [Read more...]

SE-Service Esox Lucius

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This 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 became fast friends through … [Read more...]

Jay Springsteen XR750 Replica Street Tracker

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No sooner do I ask where the factory Street Trackers are than I get a note from Brian telling me a friend of his is planning to go into production with these Jay Springsteen XR750 Replicas. They look like a full on race bike ready for the Indy Mile but they're street legal. The bikes are the work of Billy Hofmeister, who has 38 years of Pro Class Racing with 14 years of … [Read more...]

Where are the Factory Street Trackers?

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Stopping by Richard Pollock's website, Mule Motorcycles, I see he's built this Yamaha XS650 street tracker, beautiful bike, looks like it would be a blast to ride. I mention Mule Motorcycles now and then and comment on the excellent bikes he's turning out and the question pops up whenever I see them, where are the factory street trackers? I know I'm not the only one who likes … [Read more...]