Sin and Salvation: 7 Choppers from Roll The Bones Vintage Chopper Show

Sin and Salvation: 7 Choppers from Roll The Bones Vintage Chopper Show Montreal is a city of dualities. It is a place where European charm meets North American industrial grit, and where the sacred architecture of the ‘City of a Hundred Steeples’ often provides a backdrop for more rebellious pursuits. This past weekend, the Théâtre Paradoxe, a former church converted i...

Cor Ferro: Copper Chopper’s Super Meteor 650

Cor Ferro: Copper Chopper’s Super Meteor 650 Moscow is a city of superlatives, a sprawling, historic metropolis where architectural grandeur meets the relentless pace of modern Russian life. It’s a place that demands a certain level of intensity to survive, let alone create. In this high-pressure environment, Alexey Sorokin operates Copper Cho...

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,...