Custom motorcycles based on the classic Honda CBX series.
This edition of Speed Read is our sportiest one yet, jam-packed with custom superbikes. First, we profile a Ducati ST3 sport tourer-turned-café racer from France. Then we run through a Honda CBX1000 restomod from Dubai, Buell’s new Freedom Edition Hammerhead, and a Nicky Hayden Edition Honda RC51 that’s just popped up for sale.
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A year after he turned his custom motorcycle building hobby into a business, Dimitri at Lys Motorcycles figured it was time to level up his portfolio. So he set time aside to build a show bike—a rolling portfolio piece that he could take to events. Going for max. impact, he took a 1982 Honda CBX…
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One thing we rarely talk about in the custom world is the ability of the rider. But maybe we should. Because a client who takes a Gixxer to track days and runs fast laps is unlikely to be happy riding a retro roadster with Firestone tires and a flat spot in the middle of the…
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There’s never a quiet moment for Tom Gilroy and the team at Purpose Built Moto in Queensland, Australia. Tom started his career fixing up old bikes in a shed on the family farm; today he runs a bustling custom business with a prodigious build output, a store full of parts, and he’s even made a…
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When this sleek Honda popped up on our email, it stopped us in our tracks. And then we got an extra surprise—it’s…
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The Honda CBX1000 is not only iconic—it’s massive. The six-cylinder, 24-valve behemoth was a beast in every sense of the word: an…
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The danger with commissioning a custom motorcycle is that you end up with something so unique, or expensive, that it’s not viable…
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Despite the fact that motorcycles seem to keep getting bigger, the six-cylinder engine layout has never really caught on. Only a handful…
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The annals of motorcycling history are filled with ‘tweeners’—motorcycles that improved upon outgoing models, but eventually fizzled out to make way for…
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We love the big, bruising superbikes of the late 70s and early 80s. They were fast, brash and good-looking—and their riders often…
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British motocross champion Billy MacKenzie builds an incredible CBX750. Royal Enfield reveals a +100 hp Continental GT dragster. And Rua Machines turn…
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‘Perfectly insane about motorcycles’ is how friends and colleagues describe Nazar ‘Gazzz’ Poznyakovsky of Gazzz Garage in Kyiv, Ukraine. “I combine engineering…
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