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THE BSMC EVENT LONDON 2013
LONDON CALLING: SAT 18th & SUN 19th MAY. …Firstly, we’ve moved to a bigger venue, the Shoreditch Studios – just around the corner from the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane & Spitalfields. More Space, More Bikes, More ...
MOTOBIKE Badajoz’s CB450DX
Badajoz in Spain is a city of just 150,000 inhabitants, but despite the small population MOTOBIKE Badajoz has scored three builds since they launched their partnership with Mario Salorino, building cafe/brat style customs. After showcasing Mario’s own ...
Maccomotors Monty 75
When Miguel first came to Tito & Jose of Maccomotors in Spain, they were just finishing up their chunky Kawasaki 1100ST so his little red Montessa 75 was about to take them to the opposite end of ...
MOTOBIKE Badajoz’s CB900F
Having been inspired by Deus Ex Machina and Wrenchmonkees, Mario Salorino began his collabroation with MotoBike Badajoz building his own Honda, a CM400T. This project set him up with owner Juan de Dios and mechanic Ricard as ...
Old Empire MC’s EFI
Old Empire Motorcycles in Norfolk are all about the “Pure Motorcycle”; back to basic builds, bikes stripped back to the minimum and finished at the highest levels of quality – but above all, made to ride. Although ...
Untitled MC R90/6
Adam, Rex & Anita have been beavering away under the arches for a while now, turning unwanted R-Series BMWs into badass street-munching urban brat/scrambler hybrids, and this picture-perfect R90 is the latest to roll off the bench, ...
Kevils Great Escape
Looks like the guys down at Kevils in Paignton have been enjoying themselves creating this retro homage to the late, great Mr McQueen, but with a German twist. Although the bike is, of course, a BMW, this ...
Maccomotors nº1 Z1100 Shaftie
Everyone loves a big Zed, so we were very chuffed when brothers Tito & Jose saw fit to send us photos of their very first build under the brand Maccomotors, a 1982 Kawasaki Z1100 ST shaftie. The ...
Steel Bent – The Convertible
The dilemma of whether to go solo and have that pure, bump-stopped, cafe racer rear-end or whether to consider the need to take a svelte young hottie on the back of your pride’n’joy has sweated many of ...
Fuel’s BMW R80 STrial
Seems like the guys at Fuel in Barcelona have been busying themselves with putting together yet another classy BMW-based custom. It began life as a 1984 R80, now better known as the R80 S TRIAL. The build ...
Fuel’s Scram 4TWO
As the avalanche of BMW customs continues, we’re still blown away by how different these builds can turn out considering how standardised this long-serving BMW R-series was from the 70s and into the early 80s. This R100 ...
Brad’s CX 500
Brad is 21 years old, and has been riding for a few years, having started out on dirt bikes. However, he is also son of David T, who recently built a badass black CX500 cafe racer, which ...
Maria MC Hurricane Jane
The Kawasaki W650 and newer W800 has been championed by the likes of Deus Ex Machina and recently Spirit of the Seventies, but you’d think there would be more customs around based on this platform combining modern ...
Kevils B-Monda
Seems like Kev Hill has decided to mix it up a little from the usual Kevils Speedshop blueprint- literally – with this Honda tanked – and badged – R100 Brat-style custom. Broad, up-swept Triumph handlebars with trendy ...
KDI Honda Paul Smart?
KDI Cycles in Connecticut in the US is the home of Kevin Dinsmoor’s cafe racer creations. Kevin prides himself in doing things right first time, taking old forgotten vintage motorcycles and meticulously returning them to perfect running ...
LHC CB 750 Scrambler
Richard & Lex from Left Hand Cycles in the Netherlands have their own bike building mantra that “less is less”, but this purposefully built CB750 scrambler is a lot more than the sum of its parts and ...
JMR CL360 Tracker
This is Josh Mott, owner of JMR Customs of Boise, ID. We came across a 1974 CL 360 Honda donor while dropping a Moto Guzzi off to a customer. The lady had the bike sitting in her ...
Red Max’s 900ss
You may have noticed that we’re big fans of Ducati cafe racers, so when we came across this 900ss from our friends, Redmax Speedshop down in the South of England, we had to get her up on ...
BackOnTwo’s CB350 – The Huf
This lovely little CB350 is the work of Lior Baruch, AKA Back on Two, and was the well-deserved winner of April’s Bike of the Month on Do The Ton. The Honda Threefiddy CeeBee is a lovely platform, ...
Merry Michau
I’m a women in a man’s world and I wouldn’t have it any other way. At seven my dad brought my brother a monkey bike and me a pony. All I can remember thinking was ‘I want ...
4h10 SilverBug
This head-turning steam punk/brat custom with it’s raw aluminium and medieval yellow headlamp is the work of Parisian outfit 4h10. It started out as a humble 1978 R100/7, but as you can see, Nico and John have ...
Kevils BlackJack R80
Down in deepest Surrey, Russ will be counting the days before Kev Hill & Co at Kevils deliver his new baby, this cafe racer’d BMW, which has been given the nickname, “Black Jack”. The donor is a ...
Hookie #4 xs 360
This is Hookie #4, a Yamaha xs 360 built by Nico, AKA The Hookie Custom Motorcycles in Germany. After taking a two-year break Nico decided to start a new project to built a little cafe/tracker hybrid for ...
Cafe Racer Dreams #27 R100
This tasteful, and dare we say it, practical BMW scrambler/brat custom from Cafe Racer Dreams was amazingly turned around in four weeks and built on a budget. Forks are original items. Bars are Renthal Ultra lows with ...
Analog Motorcycles R75/5 DS
There are a lot of aircooled BMW twins out there now as they’re becoming one of the most popular platforms to work on in the custom scene, providing a cost-effective, reliable base with genuine heritage and character ...
Flying Hermans’ Ducati Cafe Racer
It’s hard to believe that this pristine looking bike was totalled after a crash last year, as not only has it been totally rebuilt, it’s become one of the nicest Ducati Sport Classic 1000s we’ve come across ...
Cafe Racer Dreams #26
You would normally have to head to Spain to see one of Pery’s tasteful brat style customs, but this lovely little triumph is destined for London, as she’s been built for a customer here: Cafe Racer Dreams’ ...
Free Kustom Cycles Kz400
Free Kustom Cycles is yet another Spanish workshop knocking on the doors of the custom brat/cafe scene, and we’ve been waiting a while to see what proprietor Marcos Vazquez would come up with next. This tasteful Kz400 ...
Beauty in the Beast
A while back we featured Cafe Racer Dream‘s Monster 695 as work in progress; a budget build that Efra and Pedro were putting together for Carlos. Pedro used to work for Ducati Madrid and has always been ...
Cerberus Motorcycles CL350
San Diego custom shop Cerberus Motorcycles is a partnership between biking veterans David Hargreaves and Erik Borowitz; two cool guys with a few stories to tell (which you can read HERE). This is their latest custom cafe/brat, ...