Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Editor's Choice: An alternative Top 10 for 2025


Editor's Choice: An alternative Top 10 for 2025 Taste is subjective, so it's with a hint of trepidation that I compile my Editor's Choice Top 10 each year. After all, my job is to select the world's best custom motorcycles week after week—so distilling an already discerning catalog to just 10 machines is a burdensome task.It starts with a 'short'...

Monday, December 29, 2025

Yokohama, Japan for Mooneyes 32nd Annual Hot Rod & Custom Show


Yokohama, Japan for Mooneyes 32nd Annual Hot Rod & Custom Show

Now an almost annual pilgrimage for over 25 years (first HRCS was 1999!), however, it’s only been the last 15 […]

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Sunday, December 28, 2025

Eat Sawdust: Inside the Wandering Mind of Maxwell Paternoster


Eat Sawdust: Inside the Wandering Mind of Maxwell Paternoster Maxwell Paternoster’s art is what would happen if you soaked R. Crumb’s brain in gasoline and LSD — at once deranged, poignant, and darkly humorous. Swap the ballooned manic breasts of Crumb’s characters with sweaty robots and laser skulls, and you’re most of the way there — a trip of contemporary m...

Saturday, December 27, 2025

Factory Specials: The 10 Best Production and Concept Bikes of 2025


Factory Specials: The 10 Best Production and Concept Bikes of 2025 was a big year for the motorcycle industry. Harley-Davidson hired a new CEO, Polaris sold their majority stake in Indian Motorcycle, Norton announced an all-new range, and the Indian powerhouse Bajaj rescued KTM.In between the hubbub, the year yielded a slew of noteworthy production models and conc...

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2025


Revealed: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2025 It's that time of the year again. We've scoured our stats, done the sums, and compiled the 2025 edition of the notorious Bike EXIF Top 10.For the second year running, we've considered data from the start of December last year until the end of November this year, which means that any bikes that poppe...

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

The Privateer: A Custom Husqvarna Norden 901 Expedition from the PNW


The Privateer: A Custom Husqvarna Norden 901 Expedition from the PNW Pacific Northwest local Eric Minsker upgrades his Husqvarna Norden 901 Expedition with an Aurora rally kit, a host of top-shelf components, and a razor-sharp livery.Adventure motorcyclists are low-key among the most prolific custom motorcycle builders around. But theirs is a philosophy of function a...

Monday, December 22, 2025

Featured Shop: Restored Land Rovers by Brooklyn Coachworks


Featured Shop: Restored Land Rovers by Brooklyn Coachworks Brooklyn is home to a great many strange, hip, modern, and trendy new businesses that can feel cartoonishly stereotypical against the constantly shifting landscape of the legendary NYC borough. For all the cucumber milkshake parlors and Croatian Black Metal concert venues dotting Brooklyn, there is ...

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Bandit9 Monaco: How an Accomplished Bike Builder Sees the Future of EVs


Bandit9 Monaco: How an Accomplished Bike Builder Sees the Future of EVs If you’re already familiar with Bandit9, chances are pretty good that it’s because of the company’s wildly futuristic custom motorcycles. Since 2011, the Vietnam-based shop has been turning out bikes the likes of which the world has never seen, with soft edges, swooping curves, and space-age materia...

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Austrian Avalanche: Our 7 Favorite Custom KTM Motorcycles


Austrian Avalanche: Our 7 Favorite Custom KTM Motorcycles In the competitive world of high-performance motorcycling, few manufacturers embody the spirit of "Ready to Race" quite like KTM. Founded in Mattighofen, Austria, in 1934 (though motorcycle production began in the early 1950s), the company built its reputation in the dirt. From gruelling Dakar ralli...

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Fluid Dynamics: A Neo-Retro TVS RR 310 Café Racer from Indonesia


Fluid Dynamics: A Neo-Retro TVS RR 310 Café Racer from Indonesia Smoked Garage turns the TVS Apache RR 310 single-cylinder sportbike into a fluid neo-retro café racer.The TVS Apache RR 310 might be small, but it's a firecracker. Its 312 cc single-cylinder mill makes 37.5 hp and 29 Nm, and comes with a six-speed transmission, a quick-shifter, and a suite of electr...

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Mooneyes Calling: Marc Holstein Reports from the 2025 Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show


Mooneyes Calling: Marc Holstein Reports from the 2025 Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show The Japanese custom scene has always marched to the beat of its own drum—and nowhere is this more evident than at the annual Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show. Colloquially known as the Mooneyes Show, and hosted in the Pacifico Yokohama convention hall on the first weekend in December, the HRCS is a one-...

Saturday, December 13, 2025

46Works Turns the Fantic Caballero Scrambler 700 into a Sporty Café Racer


46Works Turns the Fantic Caballero Scrambler 700 into a Sporty Café Racer 46Works frontman Shiro Nakajima's latest project is a Fantic Caballero Scrambler 700, reimagined as a sleek café racer with sporty intentions.Although the roster at the annual Yokohama Hot Rod Custom Show is vast, there are a handful of Japanese custom builders that you can count on to deliver the g...

Friday, December 12, 2025

Spark Plug Gap, Inspection & Maintenance


Spark Plug Gap, Inspection & Maintenance

As a Harley-Davidson owner, you might think you know everything there is to know about spark plugs. However, there are […]

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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Carolina Reaper: A Red-Hot Royal Enfield Guerilla 450 Flat Tracker


Carolina Reaper: A Red-Hot Royal Enfield Guerilla 450 Flat Tracker Flat track mad scientist Toshiyuki ‘Cheetah’ Osawa delivers a spicy Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450 flat tracker as hot as the chili pepper it's named after.Peaking at 2.2 million Scoville units, the Carolina Reaper is widely considered the world’s hottest chili pepper. But it didn't get that way on its...

Long-Lost 2003 Harley-Davidson Sportster Street Tracker


Long-Lost 2003 Harley-Davidson Sportster Street Tracker

Some motorcycles are built for speed. Some are built for style. And then there are the rare ones—machines that become […]

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Heath Pinter’s 1965 Harley-Davidson Panhead Bobber 


Heath Pinter’s 1965 Harley-Davidson Panhead Bobber 

Heath Pinter, a name synonymous with BMX excellence for us 40-somethings, has seamlessly transitioned his passion for two wheels into […]

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Indian Motorcycle Partners with Vance & Hines for 2026 King of the Baggers


Indian Motorcycle Partners with Vance & Hines for 2026 King of the Baggers

Indian Motorcycle is charging into a new chapter of performance and leadership, announcing a landmark multi-year partnership with Vance & […]

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Craig Westfall’s Biltwell People’s Champ Finalist Home-Built Evo  


Craig Westfall’s Biltwell People’s Champ Finalist Home-Built Evo  

Craig Westfall, a high school technology teacher from Buffalo, NY, built one tough-looking Evo for the 2024 Biltwell People’s Champ. While his […]

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Oil Pump Installation Tips and Tricks with Danny Wilson


Oil Pump Installation Tips and Tricks with Danny Wilson

We’re back with another installment of Hot Bike’s Tech Tips, and we’re going to dive deeper into oil pumps, and more importantly, we’ll provide you […]

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Monday, December 1, 2025

12 Motorcycle Products – Tools, Bags, Booze and More


12 Motorcycle Products – Tools, Bags, Booze and More

Biltwell – EXFIL-7 2.0 Bag   The EXFIL-7 2.0 redefines motorcycle luggage with smart upgrades. Featuring a laser-cut MOLLE system, anti-rattle […]

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