BOLT #100: Bolt Motor Co’s Kawasaki ZRX 12OO R

BOLT #100: Bolt Motor Co’s Kawasaki ZRX 12OO R In the sun-drenched coastal city of Valencia, Spain, the custom motorcycle scene moves with a distinct, high-octane energy. This is a city that lives and breathes racing, and at its heart lies Bolt Motor Company. Under the guidance of Adrián Campos, Bolt has spent years establishing a reputation for...

Race Guerilla: Rough Crafts' Harley-Davidson Streetbob

Race Guerilla: Rough Crafts' Harley-Davidson Streetbob Customizing a motorcycle is, at its heart, a personal endeavor. But when your dream builder is half a world away in Taipei, and you’re sitting in Los Angeles, that personal endeavor quickly morphs into a logistical nightmare of shipping containers, customs declarations, and the labyrinthine headache...

Throwback Thursday—Going Out with a Bang: Jamesville’s Last Custom Harley

Throwback Thursday—Going Out with a Bang: Jamesville’s Last Custom Harley I’ve always had a soft spot for the machines built by James Roper-Caldbeck. Back in 2009, when Bike EXIF was only a few months old and still a casual side project, we started featuring Jamesville bikes—which were a breath of fresh air compared to the blinged-out choppers that still dominated the wes...

Golden Era Resurrection: Copper Chopper’s 1956 Harley-Davidson Panhead Chopper

Golden Era Resurrection: Copper Chopper’s 1956 Harley-Davidson Panhead Chopper Moscow, Russia, is a city defined by its stark contrasts: a sprawling metropolis where centuries-old Orthodox cathedrals sit in the shadow of Soviet-era brutalism and gleaming glass-fronted skyscrapers. It is a place of immense history and, increasingly, a thriving hub for high-end custom motorcycle...

Protected: Original Garage Moto 2024-Up Touring Inverted Front End Kit: First Look

Protected: Original Garage Moto 2024-Up Touring Inverted Front End Kit: First Look<p><img data-tf-not-load="1" fetchpriority="high" loading="auto" decoding="auto" width="1080" height="1350" src="https://hotbike.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_9677.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="OG MOTO INVERTED FRONTEND 2024 HARLEY-DAVIDSON ROAD GLIDE" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://hotbike.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_9677.jpg 1080w, https://hotbike.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_9677-461x576.jpg 461w, https://hotbike.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_9677-720x900.jpg 720w, https://hotbike.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_9677-768x960.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px" /></p> <p>There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://hotbike.com/original-garage-moto-2024-up-touring-inverted-front-end-kit-first-look/">Protected: Original Garage Moto 2024-Up Touring Inverted Front End Kit: First Look</a> appeared first on <a href="https://hotbike.com">Hot Bike Magazine</a>.</p>

Neon Discipline: A Cyberpunk Royal Enfield Continental GT From Mumbai

Neon Discipline: A Cyberpunk Royal Enfield Continental GT From Mumbai Defining the vision for a custom motorcycle project isn’t as easy as it sounds. You might think you have something unique penned in your mind, but when it comes time to bring that vision to life, you might find you’ve painted yourself into a corner. Aditya Deshmukh doesn’t seem to have that problem....

Triple Threat: 6 of our Favorite Yamaha XSR900

Triple Threat: 6 of our Favorite Yamaha XSR900 When Yamaha launched the XSR900 in 2016, it wasn&#039;t just another retro bike; it was a Trojan Horse. Beneath the 1970s-inspired fuel tank covers and round headlight sat the heart of a hooligan: the 847cc (and later 890cc) CP3 inline-triple. This &#039;Crossplane Concept&#039; engine is widely regarded as one of...

Flashback Friday: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of May 2025

Flashback Friday: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of May 2025 The custom motorcycle scene is a fickle beast. One month, we’re drowning in Bluetooth brakes and half-baked café racers; the next, the stars align, and our inbox is a goldmine of engineering marvels. May 2025 was undoubtedly the latter. From Tokyo’s quiet backstreets to the industrial heart of Portu...

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&#039;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&#039;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&amp;nbsp;never argue with y’all.&amp;nbsp;Obviously, it...

Local Heroes: 5 Custom Choppers from the La Espada Chopper Show

Local Heroes: 5 Custom Choppers from the La Espada Chopper Show In the world of custom motorcycles, we are often seduced by the gravitational pull of the big shows. Events like The One Moto, Handbuilt, or the Bike Shed shows dominate our feeds with high-production value and museum-quality lighting. But while those shows represent the pinnacle of the craft, the r...

Heritage in the Mojave: Jason Chinnock’s 1971 Ducati 450 R/T Desmo

Heritage in the Mojave: Jason Chinnock’s 1971 Ducati 450 R/T Desmo There is a specific kind of magic found in the Mojave Desert near Ridgecrest, California, every April. It’s not just the vast, unforgiving landscape or the shimmering heat haze; it’s the sound of hundreds of engines shattering the silence for the Biltwell 100. It is an annual, grassroots, 100-mile d...

Flashback Friday: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of May 2024

Flashback Friday: The Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of May 2024 In the world of custom motorcycles, May 2024 was a month defined by extreme engineering. We saw builders moving away from simple aesthetic swaps and leaning into complex mechanical transformations. From the rural workshops of Northern Germany to the high-tech garages of Jakarta and Moscow, the commo...

Throwback Thursday—Essence of a Motorcycle: Heiwa’s Suzuki ST250 Scrambler

Throwback Thursday—Essence of a Motorcycle: Heiwa’s Suzuki ST250 Scrambler Kengo Kimura is one of the world’s most versatile bike builders. He can create high-end customs that win ‘Best In Show’ prizes at Mooneyes.He can also build wild concepts for the likes of BMW. And then he can take a humble commuter bike and make it look like a million dollars.This elegant little scr...

The French Connection: Mecabuell’s X1R Street Brawler

The French Connection: Mecabuell’s X1R Street Brawler Regular readers will remember Mecabuell’s XB12R &amp;nbsp;that caught our eye a few weeks back. Now, Hugo, the man behind the curtain, is back with a project that reaches further into the brand’s history, breathing new life into the iconic tube-frame era.Based in Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues, just a stone...

Flashback Friday: Top 8 Harley Davidsons of 2020

Flashback Friday: Top 8 Harley Davidsons of 2020 The year 2020 was a tumultuous one for the world, but for the custom motorcycle scene, it was a year of focused, high-caliber craftsmanship. While the global pandemic slowed the pace of life, it gave builders the solitude they needed to refine their art.In this Flashback Friday special, we count dow...