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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...]

Robbie Maddison Sets New Motorcycle Jump record

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Starting 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 to double even this new record and wants to build a special jump motorcycle … [Read more...]

Why Not Build Street Legal Custom Motorcycles?

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When 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 bit unfair when the builders ignore things the … [Read more...]

Roland Sands Custom Ducati Hypermotard

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Roland 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 bit. Link: Flickr and Flickr … [Read more...]

Jesse Rooke’s KTM Based Cafe Racer

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Jesse 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 a "work in progress" photo. Looks like he's wrapped it up, could use a little seat padding, … [Read more...]

Suzuki SXForce Motorcycle Themed Show Car

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Suzuki 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 they figured if keeping the cars close to the motorcycles was good, mixing the parts … [Read more...]