Michael Carusi has created this KTM 500 SX-F derived flat-track monstrosity. As you can see from the photos taken by...
(Sponsored post for our North American readers) When buying a new motorcycle or sports car, there are things you wish...
Brisbane-based French chef Michel Bonet has spent a lifetime cooking as well as cooking up some interesting custom motorcycles including an early supermoto. The 76-year-old was born in Burgundy and came to Australia in 1968 and spends six months here and six months in his country of birth — that...
(Contributed post) As a motorcycle enthusiast, you may like a variety of bike types. Some people fancy cruiser bikes. Some people...
Yamaha’s leaning three-wheeler Niken is one crazy bike and now a custom version has won the Craziest Bike award at...
(CONTRIBUTED POST FOR NORTH AMERICAN READERS) If you like to customize motorcycles, you should know how to do it properly. Modifications come in many different forms, but you may have to understand a few important basics before you can even start planning a major refinement. Whether it’s adding small details...
Aussie and Kiwi Harley-Davidson dealers will compete in the annual global Battle of the Kings custom bike competition for the second...
DAB Motors lets you completely customise your new bike from enduro to motard to scrambler even before taking delivery, with...
Indian motorcycle is marking the 100th anniversary of the Scout model with a NOS custom drag bike with a dustbin fairing that looks like an old jet fighter plane. The Appaloosa, named after America’s fast horse breed, is based on the Scout Bobber. It will compete in the quirky Sultans...
Organisers of the seventh annual Throttle Roll in Sydney next Saturday (18 May 2019) say it will be their biggest...
We’ve seen some weird and wonderful designs in electric motorcycles, but nothing comes close to the Racer X with its...
The possibility of BMW releasing a big Boxer engine with a capacity up to 1800cc has increased with the engine appearing in another amazing custom motorcycle. The mystery engine first appeared last year when Japanese custom builders from Custom Works Zon rolled out what they called a the Departed R18. R18 could...
Iconic American motorcycle customiser Arlen Ness has died, aged 79, surrounded by his family in California. Arlen was known for...
Hopes of BMW building an R18 with an 1800cc engine have risen with this new video showing a wild Japanese...
A two-hour feature film on the worldwide custom motorcycle phenomenon titled Oil in the Blood is coming to your computer and/or TV screens soon. Australian custom builders and Sydney’s Throttle Roll custom motorcycle festival are featured in the film. It was directed by life-long biker Gareth Maxwell Roberts who tells...
If you’ve got 50 minutes to spare, watch this beautifully produced feature film, titled Handcrafted, about Australia’s custom motorcycle community. It...
This wild Japanese custom BMW R18 seems to hint that the normally conservative Bavarian company may be considering a 1.8-litre...
Contributed post for our North American readers We often derive a sense of pride from our ownership of a vehicle. It’s a status symbol, after all, which is why so many of the rich and famous own luxury cars and bikes. But, that’s not the end-all-be-all reason for owning a...
Would you believe this wild nostalgia custom motorcycle started life as the BMW R nineT and that you can buy...
Many riders and custom bike builders “bob” the tail of their motorcycle for a tidier appearance, but are they legal?...
One of the most popular TV series about motorcycles, American Chopper, returns to Australian TV through the Discovery Channel in October 2018. The show that featured Paul Teutul Snr and Paul Jnr building custom choppers at Orange Country Choppers started in 2002 and ran for 223 episodes over 10 years with audiences...
Brisbane’s blossoming custom bike scene now has a new leather accessories brand, Port and Hide, which officially launched recently at...
Car designers usually get motorcycles all wrong, but ARES Design has hit the nail on the head with its BMW...
Seventeen Australian and New Zealand Harley-Davidson dealers will take on the world in the Battle of the Kings custom motorcycle build-off for the first time since its launch in 2015. MotorbikeWriter.com has been invited to be one of the judges in the Australian leg of the competition to find a...
We don’t expect hubless wheeled motorcycles to become a thing, but this one certainly has turned some heads. The TMC...
Introduced in 2014, the BMW R nineT has become the second-best seller behind the R 1200 GS models and certainly...
BMW Motorrad has debuted a Desert Racer version of its R nineT at the annual Wheels and Waves custom motorcycle festival in Biarritz, France. The bike is based on the R nineT Scrambler, but with twin high pipes either side of the seat, wide vintage motocross bars, upgraded forks, smaller...
A layer of 24K gold bling has been added to the frame of this one-off Ducati Monster 1200 by Munich-based...
Brisbane custom motorcycle shop Smoked Garage Custom Motorcycles has moved upmarket to the top end of Fortitude Valley into an near-century-old...
Gold-plated screws, 360 diamonds and two safes in the fuel tank could make this Harley-Davidson Softail Blue Edition custom one of the most expensive motorcycles in the world at $A2.4 million ($US1.8m, €1.5m, £1.3m). The custom is the work of Swiss custom Harley-Davidson workshop Bündnerbike. They made the bike for...
These four Ducati Scrambler customs could be an indication that the Italian company is considering a cafe racer version of...
Brisbane motorcycle custom shop Ellaspede is running a new event called Backroads or Bust where you could be a winner...
Smoked Garage is now strutting its latest big-build, a 2015 Ducati 848 Streetfighter with a show-stopping strut-supported tank so you can lift it to access the electronics. Marketing manager Benny Selboskar says the SG-848X (SG stands for Smoked Garage) took 12 workers nine months to complete at their Bali facility....
Brass and copper used to be common materials in motorcycles and now Harley-Davidson is going brassy with its latest collection...
Custom motorcycle designer Roland Sands is enthusiastic about the future of motorcycles powered by electric motors and batteries. Despite bringing...
Swiss custom motorcycle company Gannet Design has produced an even more retro one-off version of the Moto Guzzi V7 to celebrate its 50th anniversary. So why is this so interesting? Because Gannet Design seems to have a crystal ball, designing a more dirt-oriented Ducati Scrambler custom before the Desert Sled was...
Some claim BMW boxers have a look only a mother could love, but for Owen Hobbs the classic airhead epitomises...
Indian Motorcycle Australia continues to demonstrate the personalisation potential of its popular Scout with the latest Wall of Death custom. Country manager Peter...
If you are customising or restoring a motorcycle and can’t find a part or need special custom parts machined, this online marketplace may be just what you need. The service – Machining4u – is a marketplace where riders and other restorers can post their requirements for one-off custom parts and get them...
Indian Motorcycle Australia is continuing with its release of limited-edition Scouts with the fourth model, the Scout Franklin Edition. It’s named...
The simpler the motorcycle, the more scope there is for customisation, or so it would seem from these two very...
Billy Joel seems to have partially solved the mystery surrounding fellow rock star Bruce Springsteen’s Moto Guzzi which broke down recently. It was apparently built at Billy Joel’s 20th Century Cycles custom motorcycle shop on Long Island which specialises in turning modern motorcycles into retro customs. On Monday, Billy Joel played...
Two independent Victory Motorcycles stores in Australia are among 26 entrants in a global Victory Octane bike build-off competition. It follows...
It seems the Japanese are leading the world in the custom bike culture after taking out the AMD World Champion...
https://youtu.be/AL0ubC7GwcE This short film celebrates the life and achievements of Rex Wolfenden, an iconic Australian motorcycle builder. Rex was an A-grade motocross racer, but his real success came later, as a talented historical motorcycle maker crafting bikes from scratch. 50 Kaliber Films has created A Portrait of a Motorcycle Legend...
A Black Panther Harley-Davidson Softail Breakout is the popular choice for the best Harley customised in a Marvel Comics superheroes...
Harley-Davidson Australia has launched a Marvel Comics superheroes themed custom bike competition among their dealers where a customer can win...
Before you get too excited, this BMW Titan Concept streamliner is just the imagining of freelance industrial designer Mehmet Doruk Edem of Turkey. Mehmet seems fixated on BMWs and streamliners and has designed several other amazing concept motorcycles. His previous concept designs seem to be powered by the Boxer engine....
Brass and copper were common materials in veteran and vintage motorcycles and it is now making a comeback the 2016 Triumph...
Once considered an ugly duckling, the BMW twin-opposed “Boxer” engine is now perhaps the most attractive engine for custom motorcycle...
The results are in for the 2016 Laverda Concours and a 1973 Kawasaki 1100 drag bike built by Anthony Anderson was judged best Street Special and the Best in Show. (Full results are at the end of the article.) Overnight rain seemed to put a damper on the 28th annual Laverda Concours on Sunday (July 17, 2016) with...
The Suzuki Boulevard C50 is a superb bargain tourer that was just dying to be modified, says Brisbane MBW reader...
BMW continues to toy with customers’ hearts and minds with their latest concept, the Paris-Dakar rallye “Lac Rose” (pink lake)...
Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves is working on his second motorcycle after the successful release of his first project the KRGT-1. His company, Arch Motorcycle Company, has just released the above video of the bike which recently passed its emissions tests with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the Environmental Protection...
No sooner has Indian Motorcycle – or Victory Motorcycles – released a new bike these days, than they also unveil...
You don’t need to add lights to pimp up your motorcycle now that Australian company LuminAuz has produced paint work...
A Canadian Boardtracker custom has won the first global Indian Scout custom competition called “Project Scout: Build a Legend”. Our pick of the Project Scout customs was actually the Jack Daniels barbecue outfit from Quebec, but in the end, another Quebec bike won. Dealers from the US, Canada, Germany, Austria,...
Are riders ready for a hot pink Hello Kitty version of the trendy Ducati Scrambler? It seems not. The bike grabbed everyone’s...
London-born interior fashion design label Buster + Punch has launched this trendy custom motorcycle in collaboration with Mutt Motorcycles. Spokeswoman...
Harley-Davidson senior designer Dais Nagao believes the company should tap the youth market by building a “Darth-Vader-styled” slammed custom bagger with a big front wheel. The trend is big in the States and Victory Motorcycles has already chimed in with their Magnum bagger with a 21-inch front wheel. Dais, who...