Officine Rossopuro's Moto Guzzi V9 Bobber

Officine Rossopuro's Moto Guzzi V9 Bobber In the seaside city of Pescara, nestled within Italy’s rugged Abruzzo region, Filippo Barbacane has been playing a long game. When he started his craft in 1993, the Italian 'custom' scene was a ghost town, mostly restricted to mimicking American cruisers through grainy magazine photos. There was no ...

Back to Basics: HB-Custom's Honda NX650 Dominator

Back to Basics: HB-Custom's Honda NX650 Dominator In the windswept coastal town of Husum, Germany, Holger Breuer of HB-Custom continues to cement his reputation as one of the world’s most proficient customizers for the Honda NX650 Dominator. We recently caught up with Holger to admire his Teutonic 1920s-style BMW R69S, a build that showcased his ab...

Blue Monday: A Simson S50 Cafe Racer with a Soul

Blue Monday: A Simson S50 Cafe Racer with a Soul In the far east of Germany, Zwickau sits, a city where the air has smelled of two-stroke premix and industrial ambition for over a century. Known as the ‘City of Automobiles,’ it’s the birthplace of Audi and the infamous Trabant. But for those who grew up in the rural stretches of the former GDR, th...

Flashback Friday: Top 10 Custom Motorcycles from March '25

Flashback Friday: Top 10 Custom Motorcycles from March '25 As we crest the hill of another week and look toward the weekend's horizon, it’s time to raid the archives for our latest Flashback Friday. This week, we’re winding the clock back to March 2025, a month that saw Bike EXIF trade in high-concept futurism for a masterclass in 'Newstalgia.' From Austral...

S&S Cycle 131ci Kit for M8 Models: Sleeper Big-Inch Power Without the Hassle

S&S Cycle 131ci Kit for M8 Models: Sleeper Big-Inch Power Without the Hassle

  For riders chasing serious horsepower without turning their engine into a full-blown custom build, S&S Cycle’s new 131ci kit […]

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Blue Haze Hybrid—A Parts-Built Yamaha RD350LC from the UK

Blue Haze Hybrid—A Parts-Built Yamaha RD350LC from the UK Once a teenage dream machine, this RD350LC returns as a nostalgic hybrid with sharper handling, a bigger engine and a classic Yamaha livery.If you had a bike in the shed and a television in the mid-1970s, there’s a good chance you were dying to get your hands on a liquid-cooled Yamaha two-stroke. Ya...

How Led Sled’s Custom Sportster Chopper Reignited A Mom’s Passion

How Led Sled’s Custom Sportster Chopper Reignited A Mom’s Passion

For Kim Petit, motorcycles weren’t just a hobby—they were once a way of life. Long before motherhood, she and her […]

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Flashback Friday: Top 10 Custom Motorcycles from March '24

Flashback Friday: Top 10 Custom Motorcycles from March '24 As the frost begins to retreat and the riding season beckons, we find ourselves looking back at a particularly vintage-heavy month in the archives. March 2024 was a period of high-contrast brilliance on Bike EXIF, bridging the gap between small-capacity Thai street-scramblers and meticulously engine...

Unreal Moto: Inside Phoenix’s Hidden FXR Goldmine

Unreal Moto: Inside Phoenix’s Hidden FXR Goldmine

Tucked away in Phoenix, Arizona, Unreal Moto isn’t the kind of shop that screams for attention. There’s no flashy front, […]

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Counting Down: 24 Bikes Reimagines the Classic Moto Guzzi 850 T3

Counting Down: 24 Bikes Reimagines the Classic Moto Guzzi 850 T3 In the world of custom motorcycles, we often talk about "career changes," but Jochen Heinrich’s transition might be the most enviable one we’ve heard yet. After four decades navigating the sterile halls of the banking sector, Jochen traded his spreadsheets for a set of spanners. It’s a return to for...

Monza’s Masterpiece: Ruote Fiere’s 1970s Endurance-Inspired Trident

Monza’s Masterpiece: Ruote Fiere’s 1970s Endurance-Inspired Trident In the early 1970s, the Triumph Trident T150 was a machine caught between two worlds. With its 741cc transverse triple producing  58 bhp and a top speed north of 115 mph, it had the heart of a champion. Yet, it struggled to maintain its footing against the "Superbike" onslaught from Japan. By 1...

Sympathy for the Devil: 5 of our favorite Ducati Diavel Customs

Sympathy for the Devil: 5 of our favorite Ducati Diavel Customs When Ducati first pulled the silk off the Diavel in 2010, the motorcycling world didn’t quite know where to file it. It was a 162-hp brute that combined the long wheelbase of a cruiser with the rake and trail of a superbike, wrapped in bodywork that looked like a muscular middle linebacker in a tail...

Promises Delivered: A Custom Ducati 749

Promises Delivered: A Custom Ducati 749 Based in Washington, D.C., Andrew Jett of Jett Design Garage operates at the intersection of fine art and engineering. Having studied design in college, Jett’s philosophy is rooted in the concept of the ‘focused experience.’ For him, a motorcycle isn't a collection of specs; it’s a creative medium u...

Latvian Hammer: ZEPS Moto’s Belt-Driven Yamaha MT-01

Latvian Hammer: ZEPS Moto’s Belt-Driven Yamaha MT-01 In the world of electronic music, Girts Ozolins is a titan. As the founder of Erica Synths, he spends his days designing modular synthesizers that are as raw and uncompromising as the industrial soundscapes of his home in Riga, Latvia. But when the soldering iron is cold, Girts translates that same ...

Ken’s Factory Next-Level Knucklehead: A Modern Custom Knuckle Built from the Ground Up

Ken’s Factory Next-Level Knucklehead: A Modern Custom Knuckle Built from the Ground Up

At Ken’s Factory in Nagoya, Japan, craftsmanship is guided by a simple philosophy: “Details Create Style.” It’s a mantra that […]

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Throwback Thursday—Done Right: Rick Hannah’s Kawasaki W650 Desert Sled

Throwback Thursday—Done Right: Rick Hannah’s Kawasaki W650 Desert Sled My father was fond of the saying, “If you want a job done right, do it yourself.” And that’s the first thought that popped into my head when I saw this sublime Kawasaki W650 desert sled from England.It comes from London-based Rick Hannah, who builds under the amusing moniker of Dirty Dick's Motos.Ri...

12 New Motorcycle Products Every Harley Rider Should Consider

12 New Motorcycle Products Every Harley Rider Should Consider

Keeping your Harley-Davidson dialed in with the latest performance parts and riding gear is part of the custom V-twin lifestyle. […]

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The Hammer of the Gods: Our Favorite Harley-Davidson Knucklehead Customs

The Hammer of the Gods: Our Favorite Harley-Davidson Knucklehead Customs If Harley-Davidson has a "holy grail" engine, the EL Knucklehead is undoubtedly it. Produced between 1936 and 1947, the Knucklehead— named for the distinct shape of its rocker boxes—represented a massive technological leap for the Milwaukee firm. It was Harley’s first production overhead-valve (OHV)...

Teutonic Titan: HB-Custom's BMW R69S

Teutonic Titan: HB-Custom's BMW R69S In the windswept coastal town of Husum, Germany, often called the "Grey City by the Sea", the air is thick with salt and heritage. It is here that Holger Breuer of HB-Custom operates, a builder who has spent years proving he is anything but a one-trick pony. We’ve seen him tackle everything from ral...

Showstoppers—The Most Viewed Custom Motorcycles of February 2026

Showstoppers—The Most Viewed Custom Motorcycles of February 2026 So you like old Harleys, do ya? Well, clearly you do, as February’s stats don’t lie. Relax, your secret’s safe with us, and every member of the Bike EXIF staff has at least one old HD in the stable in addition to the daily drivers. While February’s numbers confirm a trend we’ve been n...

The Dirt Track Hero for the Street: Our Favorite Indian FTR Customs

The Dirt Track Hero for the Street: Our Favorite Indian FTR Customs When Indian Motorcycle unveiled the FTR 1200 in 2019, it was a rare moment when a manufacturer actually listened to its fans. For years, we had begged for a street-legal version of the dominant FTR750 Scout Racer, and Indian delivered a high-spec, 120 hp V-twin, trellis-framed hooligan. It was a bik...

Indian x Vance & Hines’ Hayden Gillim Wins Race 1 King of the Baggers at Daytona

Indian x Vance & Hines’ Hayden Gillim Wins Race 1 King of the Baggers at Daytona

The 2026 MotoAmerica Mission King of the Baggers season opened in dramatic fashion at Daytona International Speedway, where the newly […]

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Saddlemen Race Development Sweeps Super Hooligan Podium at Daytona 2026

Saddlemen Race Development Sweeps Super Hooligan Podium at Daytona 2026

The opening round of the MotoAmerica Super Hooligan National Championship delivered a thunderous start to the 2026 racing season during […]

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American Dream: MF Customs’ ‘Caddy’ Softail

American Dream: MF Customs’ ‘Caddy’ Softail The 1999 Harley-Davidson Softail occupies a sweet spot in the Milwaukee timeline. It was the final year of the venerable 80-inch Evolution engine, a motor prized by purists for its mechanical simplicity, housed in a chassis that mimics the clean lines of a vintage hardtail. It is a canvas for those ...

Throwback Thursday—KNTT: A Sporty Knucklehead from Max Hazan

Throwback Thursday—KNTT: A Sporty Knucklehead from Max Hazan We'd love a glimpse inside Max Hazan's head. His machines are elegant and visceral, and we’re left wondering how he actually builds these functional sculptures. But what's really mind-blowing, is that he usually makes them up as he goes along.The latest Hazan Motorworks creation has the lines of an ...

The Hooligan: Our Favorite Triumph Speed Triple Customs

The Hooligan: Our Favorite Triumph Speed Triple Customs When Triumph launched the Speed Triple in 1994, they inadvertently birthed the modern factory streetfighter. It was a simple, brutal recipe: take the engine and chassis from the Daytona sportbike, strip away the fairings, and add a set of upright handlebars. By the time the T509 arrived in 1997 with...

Feuling Lifter Cuffs for Harley Milwaukee-Eight – Better Wear Resistance & Cam Lift Support

Feuling Lifter Cuffs for Harley Milwaukee-Eight – Better Wear Resistance & Cam Lift Support

  When you’re tuning a Harley-Davidson powerplant for superior performance and longevity, attention to valve-train components pays dividends. Enter the […]

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Homecoming—Minami Motorcycle’s Repatriated Honda CB750

Homecoming—Minami Motorcycle’s Repatriated Honda CB750 When the Honda CB750 debuted in 1969, it didn’t just move the goalposts—it quietly rewrote the rules of the game. Four cylinders. An overhead cam. Electric start. A front disc brake. All of it wrapped in a package that was refined and reliable enough to ride daily, and affordable enough to matter. T...

Wild Child: 5 Radical Ducati Hypermotard Customs

Wild Child: 5 Radical Ducati Hypermotard Customs The Ducati Hypermotard has always been the "wild child" of the Borgo Panigale lineup. When it first broke cover as a concept at EICMA in 2005, it didn't just turn heads; it redefined what a street bike could be. Designed by Pierre Terblanche, the Hypermotard was a middle finger to the status quo—com...