We've seen many custom motorcycles made out of the BMW R NineT, but we've never seen one remotely like this. It's either a hideous futuristic deformity, or the ultimate artistic expression of BMW's design ethos, and we're not sure if we love it, hate it or hate to love it.
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Does the absence of a pretty motor ruin your chances of building an attractive electric custom bike? Not if this Zero XU from Colt Wrangler is any example. Old school flat tracker lines somehow work with the Zero's boxy battery and frame.
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This funky custom motorcycle is built on the crazy foundation of Yamaha's 1993 GTS1000, with its hub-steered front wheel on a single-sided swingarm. The GTS was a beefy, overweight tourer, but JSK Moto has transformed it into a svelte roadster with a crouching robot puma stance.
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This nifty neo-futuristic cafe racer, with its bullet fairing and custom bodywork, is part of Yamaha's global push to promote the customizable nature of its XSR900 cafe racer. The "Type 11 Prototype 2" by the UK's Auto Fabrica will go on sale in limited numbers this weekend in London.
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A Turkish custom motorcycle shop has put together a quick bolt-on body kit that turns a standard Yamaha MT03 or MT25 into a pretty unique looking neo-retro-cafe racer thing. The Janus body kit looks kind of cool, and it's an easy, cheapish way to get yourself a very distinctive ride.
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If the goal of building a custom motorcycle is to create something unique, then “Jack Watkins” (not his real name), of Poland, can tick that box. A hub-steered head-scratcher with a Beemer Boxer motor and laser-cut sheet steel frame, the Watkins M001 is an epic engineering curiosity.
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Britain’s Lister Motor Company has rolled out its latest Jaguar-based sportscar, the Thunder. Touted as the most powerful, and most luxurious road car in Lister's 65-year history, it is based on the Jaguar F-Type and boasts that car's supercharged V8 and a bespoke exterior and interior.
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Steeda is the largest privately-owned Ford tuning specialist in the world, and over the past 30 years has supplied performance parts and upgrades for vehicles out of its headquarters in Florida. Steeda recently debuted its first turnkey V8 Mustang for Europe, called the Q500 Enforcer.
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Mini has announced MINI Yours Customised, which uses 3D-printing and laser engraving facilities in Germany to allow a range of interior and exterior trim pieces featuring your own design to be custom-made.
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Long before custom-built motorcycles flourished as a market trend, many brands employed one-off designs as promotional platforms for their products. In the DCR-017’s case, DNA Filters takes it one innovative step further by designing the whole project around its main produce, the air filter.
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