Parallel Play: 5 Our Favorite Yamaha MT-07 Customs

Parallel Play: 5 Our Favorite Yamaha MT-07 Customs In the mid-2010s, Yamaha did something radical: they made motorcycling affordable, accessible, and, most importantly, fun again. The catalyst was the MT-07 (known as the FZ-07 in North America). While the spec sheet described a modest 689 cc parallel twin, the reality was a masterpiece of torque and...

Aeternum Blade: Rough Crafts’ Harley-Davidson Street Bob

Aeternum Blade: Rough Crafts’ Harley-Davidson Street Bob If you are a regular reader of Bike EXIF, Winston Yeh’s name requires absolutely no introduction. As Taipei's premier custom builder operating under his world-renowned Rough Crafts banner, Winston has achieved the near-impossible: maintaining a remarkably high annual build volume without ever diluti...

Throwback Thursday—Extreme Green: A Kawasaki ZRX1200R by deBolex

Throwback Thursday—Extreme Green: A Kawasaki ZRX1200R by deBolex After a while, a lot of custom designs tend to blend into a homogenous soup: variations on a standard recipe, slightly tweaked by the individual chefs.A handful of top builders specialize in less mainstream flavors though. One of them is Calum Pryce-Tidd of the south London workshop deBolex Engineer...

Desmoto: Futuri Motion Tech's 141kg Ducati Multistrada Supermoto

Desmoto: Futuri Motion Tech's 141kg Ducati Multistrada Supermoto In the industrial landscape of Tilburg, the Netherlands, Mark van Veggel is quietly redefining what a garage build actually means. A mechanical polymath with a background in electronic design and fabrication, Mark grew up in the slipstream of his father and grandfather. These two men taught him that...

Single-Cylinder Serenity: Roninsu’s Yamaha SR400 Chopper

Single-Cylinder Serenity: Roninsu’s Yamaha SR400 Chopper When I close my eyes and envision a chopper, the mental reel usually defaults to a specific brand of Americana. I see the Harley-Davidson Panhead, a Shovelhead, or even a Sportster. To some, the metric Chopper world is a secondary thought, even with the long-standing popularity of Triumph Pre-Units,...

American Muscle, Reimagined: Our Favorite Indian Scout Customs

American Muscle, Reimagined: Our Favorite Indian Scout Customs When the Indian Scout first rolled out in 1920, it didn't just move people—it started a revolution. Designed by Charles B. Franklin, the original Scout was a marvel of low-slung agility and reliability. Fast forward nearly a century, and under the stewardship of Polaris, the modern Scout has returne...

Showstoppers: The Most Viewed Custom Motorcycles of April 2026

Showstoppers: The Most Viewed Custom Motorcycles of April 2026 What do a Harley Sportster, a war-issue Triumph and a trio of Royal Enfields have in common? Seemingly not much, but something about each of these bikes stuck out to our readers, making them our most-viewed custom motorcycles of the month, and we would never argue with y’all. Obviously, it...