On the road? Need a safe place to park your bike? Well, just make sure it doesn’t leak and you get stay in a motel on the bottom level. Perfect for road trips. (Photo from Josh Mills.) [ more photos of motorcycles parked indoors ]
Posts Tagged ‘custom’
The Desmohog: Part Ducati, Part Harley
The ‘Desmohog’ is a custom motorcycle with a Harley big twin bottom end and Ducati 900ss cylinder heads.
Just posted a video of my friend Rob and I riding in Oregon through the Columbia Gorge on Highway 30 and beautiful back roads for 40 minutes. He’s on his custom 1979 CB750k Gulf Oil themed cafe racer, and I’m on the bizarrely awesome 1992 TDM 850. Watch the “Columbia Gorge Motorcycle Goodness” video on the MotoLady Official youtube channel. Ah, nostalgia.
Isaiah Pannier’s 1979 GS425e Cafe Racer
What you can do with some elbow grease and effort is truly amazing. Seeing high dollar builds with every detail planned and perfectly executed is definitely inspiring, each piece a work of art. But I think what I like more are garage built bikes, customized by the owner to their liking instead of a shop or designer. They both have their positives, but this is a great example of what I mean. Isaiah’s cafe racer build began with a bike you don’t often find in the USA, a 1979 Suzuki GS425e. Q…. Continue Reading »
Little Horse Cycles 1972 CB500 Cafe Racer
Andrew Cornelissen is a motorcyclist and fabricator in Portland, Oregon. His Honda CB500 custom always cruised smoothly into events looking debonaire and classy. I had to get some photos to share. That turned into me asking him all the work he’d done and well, it’s quite the list. Andrew is the founder and owner of Little Horse Cycles, does fantastic fabrication, welding, and top notch motorcycle build projects. The bike is rather ingenious in design in many ways, when you look below at the mod list you’ll see what I mean. It’s impressively light… Continue Reading »
The One Motorcycle Show Books Vol. 1 & 2
While each facet of our everyday life has it’s own culture that is constantly developing, motorcycling is one that seems to have much room to grow. We are behind the times in some areas; ideals and standards were formed and are now being broken, however more often in some regions. More evident in motorcycle racing where the rules and regulations change rather frequently and are written and formal, other pockets and cliques of motorcycle community have unspoken norms that most people adhere to. Similar to the way we build societal norms dependent… Continue Reading »