Get Ready For The Handbuilt Motorcycle Show 2017

In just four short years the Handbuilt Motorcycle Show has grown leaps and bounds. Put on by the folks at Revival Cycles, an Austin, Texas-based moto shop, the creations it has pumped out are enough for a show in its own right. However, the Revival folks team up with some of the most innovative and creative talents in the motorcycle customizing business to display their talents each year at the Handbuilt Show. Scheduled for the same weekend as the MotoGP race at the neighboring Circuit of the Americas, the crowd for the show has been steadily climbing as word of mouth spreads year after year.

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Designer Tom Dixon And Customizer Stefano Venier Team Up On Moto Guzzi Custom

Apparently famed UK furniture and lighting designer, Tom Dixon, is an avid motorcyclist and a long-term Moto Guzzi owner. In fact, in an interview with Dezeen he credits his desire to work on his own motorcycles as the impetus for learning to weld – a skill that launched his career creating things with metal.

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Energica Presents The EsseEsse9 Concept At EICMA 2016

At EICMA 2016, Italian electric motorcycle firm Energica unveiled this, the EsseEsse9 Concept. Resembling an electric scrambler of sorts, the EsseEsse9 was designed with a nod towards simplicity and to expose what until now was always hidden: the battery.

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The Hand-Painted Ducati Desmosedici GP Helmet

Ducatisti are nothing if not a passionate bunch. Ducati lovers worldwide are known for showing their displays of affection for their favorite Italian motorcycle in many ways, but Anton Henggono may have taken the cake with this one. What you see here is a Shoei X-Fourteen helmet Henggono designed to mimic Ducati’s 2016 Desmosedici GP MotoGP racer. And here’s the best part: there’s not a single sticker on the helmet. The entire design was hand painted by Henggono himself.

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Yamaha SCR950 "Checkered Scrambler" By Brat Style

Yamaha is a big supporter of the custom bike scene, encouraging builders from all over to make their Yamaha their own. As part of the Yamaha “Yard Built Project,” talented builders are asked to customize certain models to help inspire others, with the possibility of making their custom parts available for purchase to the masses.

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Db Customs Honda CB1100F Spencer Tribute

I don’t remember how I stumbled upon the Facebook group, RestoMod Motorcycles, but I’m glad I did. The basic gist seems to be outfitting old sportbikes with modern wheels and tires, which to some is probably blasphemous. But then we’re not in church, are we? There are some pretty amazing bikes on here, and this one built by Darren Begg in the great white north (Ottawa) fairly leapt off the page (possibly because Darren’s also a professional photographer).

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More Details About the MV Agusta F4Z

MV Agusta and coachbuilder Zagato have released more information and high resolution photos of the F4Z. As expected, the F4Z is just a one-off creation, so no, you will not be seeing it in showrooms. As it turns out, the F4Z is a custom order commissioned by an unnamed Japanese businessman who asked Zagato to build a motorcycle that was unique yet classic and didn’t subscribe to any fleeting trends.

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Top 10 Features Of The Untitled Motorcycles Hyper Scrambler

As an industrial designer, one might wonder what took Hugo Eccles so long to blend his profession with his love for motorcycles. Then again, in his 20-year career servicing clients like Ford Motor Company, American Express, TAG Heuer, LG, Olympus, Nike and many more, it’s understandable that maybe he was a wee bit busy with his day job to worry about his hobby.

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BMW Reveals Paris-Dakar-Inspired R NineT For Wheels & Waves Festival

As the Wheels & Waves Festival in Biarritz, France enters its fifth year, BMW has, again, released a concept bike based on the R nineT. Last year, a scrambler-ized R nineT, dubbed Concept Path 22 after the trail to one of Europe’s most famed surf spots, featured a custom paint by visual artist Ornamental Conifer. For 2016, BMW decided to look to the marque’s Paris-Dakar motorcycles to create the BMW Motorrad Concept Lac Rose.

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The Eighth Annual Quail Motorcycle Gathering

In the pantheon of vintage motorcycle shows, the Quail Motorcycle Gathering is a little like your neighborhood block party. Part Concours d’Elegance, part custom show and part biker bash, it’s a place where a hardtail chopper with springer forks sits happily alongside an impeccable Manx Norton. Vincents, Velocettes, and boutique customs share the grassy expanse with a newly introduced Yamaha XSR900 in retro Kenny Roberts livery.

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Harley-Davidson's Street 750 is a Highly Customizable International Feast

Alas, the poor Harley-Davidson Street 750 continues to get little love from MO, finishing third of three in our recent Gaiternational Shootout against Triumph’s excellent new Street Twin and Moto Guzzi’s still very good V7 Stone II. No doubt a few Triumph tuners and a handful of Guzzi specialists will get to work on those bikes, but few if any will reach the level of the Cherry’s Company turbocharged H-D Street 750 in our lead image.

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Drysdale V8 1000: A Closer Look

I was in awe as Ian Drysdale blipped the throttle of the V-8 in his Melbourne workshop. The sound reminded me of a howling F1 car. Very few bikes make the hair stand up on the back of my neck when they are free revved – some MotoGP bikes, any Pro Stock drag racer, any two-stroke racer, and definitely this amazing home-built machine.

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Moto Hangar GT550 Honduki

I’ve been planting citronella around the house to ward off the West Nile mosquitoes, but it would be way more interesting to fire something like this up on the back porch now and then:

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Introducing the Lazareth LM 847: The 4-Wheel Motorcycle You Never Knew You Wanted

MO readers tend to be pretty vocal when it comes to our three-wheeler tests, insisting that only two-wheelers count as motorcycles and three wheels should be saved for sidecars or the trash bin. If that’s the case, then what do you make of this, the Lazareth LM 847?

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MO Eye Candy: Jack Lomaxx Handcrafted Custom Motorcycles and Parts

We hear from customizers and parts manufacturers fairly frequently, but occasionally one catches our eye. That’s exactly what happened when we learned of Jack Lomaxx Handcrafted Customs. While this “one and a half-man company with a tiny budget” says it will customize and develop parts for any brand of motorcycle, designer Karsten Henkel has created an intriguing selection of custom V-Rods that we thought we’d share with our readers. In addition to the customs, Jack Lomaxx-branded parts are also available for V-Rods and Victorys plus a selection of universal-mount accessories.

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