SOME OF THE MOST CREATIVE DESIGN EVER BUILT - CLASSIC MOTORCYCLES
Most builders have a ‘shop bike.’ Sometimes it’s a practical machine to
use for running errands. Other times it’s a machine to showcase the
‘house style.’ And sometimes it’s an opportunity to go wild and build
something that pushes all the boundaries. Austria’s National Custom Tech
went a little crazy with their R100, and our readers went crazy for it
too.
There’s art to be found in most motorcycles, from the curve of a tank to
the knurled edge of a fuel cap. But Max Hazan has taken the concept of
motorcycle-as-sculpture to heights not seen since the heyday of Ian
Barry and Falcon. This BSA, created for a National Geographic
photographer, has the swooping curves of a 1930s coach built automobile,
but it’s the little details that wowed us—like the see-through Pyrex
oil tank.
We feared we’d heard the last of Pepo Rosell when he shut down Radical Ducati two years ago. But he quickly got back into the game under the XTR Pepo banner, and he’s now hitting his stride. On this 2000-model Dyna Super Glide, he’s added a dash of street tracker style, and strangely enough, it works. We’ll take this over an XR-750 any day.
The English workshop has done more than anyone to promote the ‘fat tire’ look. And with custom triple trees in production, they’ve taken out the mechanical and geometrical guesswork too. A D&O bike is always a visual thrill, but this T100 gave our servers palpitations. It’s probably the most aggressively styled custom Bonnie we’ve ever seen.
There’s art to be found in most motorcycles, from the curve of a tank to
the knurled edge of a fuel cap. But Max Hazan has taken the concept of
motorcycle-as-sculpture to heights not seen since the heyday of Ian
Barry and Falcon. This BSA, created for a National Geographic
photographer, has the swooping curves of a 1930s coach built automobile,
but it’s the little details that wowed us—like the see-through Pyrex
oil tank.
We feared we’d heard the last of Pepo Rosell when he shut down Radical Ducati two years ago. But he quickly got back into the game under the XTR Pepo banner, and he’s now hitting his stride. On this 2000-model Dyna Super Glide, he’s added a dash of street tracker style, and strangely enough, it works. We’ll take this over an XR-750 any day.
The English workshop has done more than anyone to promote the ‘fat tire’ look. And with custom triple trees in production, they’ve taken out the mechanical and geometrical guesswork too. A D&O bike is always a visual thrill, but this T100 gave our servers palpitations. It’s probably the most aggressively styled custom Bonnie we’ve ever seen.
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