Street tracker motorcycles take their design cues from racing flat trackers (or dirt trackers, as they are sometimes known).
Unlike the racers, a street tracker custom will have front brakes to make it road legal. It will also usually have matching 18- or 19-inch wheels, a slim and elongated fuel tank, a short and kicked up tail unit, and sometimes a high-mount exhaust.
They say that if you customize your motorcycle, you’re married to it. We’re going to go out on a limb and say that that’s even truer if your custom job includes a reggae-themed paint job. But that’s exactly what the owner of this custom Triumph Street Twin asked for, so that’s exactly what Vietnam’s MFix…
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Very few people would pick a mid-90s BMW F650 Funduro as a donor for a flat track-style custom build, but Georg Godde reckons the idea has merit. He runs the BMW specialist workshop Cafemoto in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, with his partner-in-crime, Holger Maninger. And even though the Cafemoto portfolio mostly features BMW boxers and K-series bikes,…
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There’s something for everyone in this week’s edition of Speed Read. We’ve got a Yamaha Banshee-powered street tracker from the UK, an ISDT-inspired BMW R100GS from Italy, and an alluring 1950s Triumph Thunderbird chopper from the USA. But first, a wonderful redemption story of a stolen, recovered, and transformed Honda Cub.
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By Chris Kelland’s admission, he and his partner Elijah Reese will “build bikes for anyone that wants to throw bundles of cash at us.” But that doesn’t mean they’re not at least a little discerning. When a client asked them to turn their father’s 1974 Honda CB750 into a café racer, they said “no.” “Cafés…
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The Yamaha SR500 is enjoying a resurgence in popularity right now, but we’re not surprised. Few motorcycles can match the SR’s enduring…
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There are plenty of reasons why certain motorcycle manufacturers don’t give North Americans the full catalog, and none of those reasons are…
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Two Yamaha singles book-end our selection this week. We kick off with a sharp custom Yamaha XT600 street tracker, then profile a…
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An old Yamaha Virago doesn’t quite have the same appeal as an old Harley, but there was a time when the Virago…
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The proliferation of bolt-on kits for bikes like the BMW R nineT has made it easier than ever for riders to individualize…
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There was a time when we couldn’t open our inbox without seeing another custom Honda CB750. Honda’s revered four-cylinder UJM was one…
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Would you believe that the BMW R nineT has already been on the market for a staggering nine years? In that time,…
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This week’s edition of Speed Read is a pick ‘n’ mix of interesting machines from all over. We start with a Yamaha…
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