Joshua’s Indian RD350
When it comes to two strokes, we know that there is a crowd of you out there who just can’t get enough, especially of the infamous RD350. As well as being stupidly quick and light, with a ...
TVC’s CB400 Blue Bat
Having spent the last 13 years in the UK Thiago Vidal has returned to his native Brazil, but this hasn’t dented his enthusiasm for custom building. Making a cafe racer from a CB400 was one of Thiago’s ...
Matt’s CB250 Brat Tracker
This 1972 Honda CB250 was built by Do The Ton forum member, Matt Hipsley, and was nominated for a hotly contested Bike of the Month. Matt has only been into bikes for the last 18 months, but ...
Auto Fabrica’s GT550. Yes, Really.
It’s hard to imagine that this sleek and stylish cafe racer custom started as a Kawasaki GT550. I guess the engine, wheels and tank are all there from the original, but with the right mods, an eye ...
Alan’s Stray Dog GS550
Alan works for City Motorcycles (soon to be re-launched into new premises as “The Pacific Motorcycle Co.”) in Nelson, New Zealand, who build specials, cafe racers and trackers, along with classic Triumph and BSA restorations, but this ...
YellowRider’s XV/TR1
Maarten Poodt, AKA Yellowrider in the Netherlands is a total Yamaha man through and through, and every winter he builds a new motorcycle. He’s built quite a range of Yamaha customs over recent years, and some have ...
Cool Kid’s GSX400 Cracker Jack
31 year old Michel Szozda has just started a small custom garage in Amsterdam called Cool Kid Customs, and this the first build to roll out of his workshop, a Suzuki GSX400, AKA Cracker Jack. Michel’s dad ...
Juanito’s Scoot, AKA “Wasa”
Bringing families together who live thousands of miles apart is not why we built The Bike Shed website, but when I got an email from Michigan in the US with this unusual shed-build submission, the cherry on ...
CB450 Distressed to Kill
Simon is a bus driver in Canberra, Australia. Working split shifts allows him to work in his shed on his bikes in the middle of the day. A true Bike Shed, Shed-Builder! Each bike takes four to ...
Jack’s Radical GT1000
The Ducati Sport Classic 1000 is often featured on the pages of blogs like the Bike Shed, but you won’t ever have seen one quite like this; Jack’s own GT1000, with lots of tasteful mods you may ...
Justin’s XS360
Justin has had an interest in motorcycles since before he learned to walk. “I have very early childhood memories of going for motorcycle rides with my dad and grandfather and wearing holes in the plastic wheels of ...
Kz750 Short Back’n'Sides
This 1977 KZ750 was found in London looking knackered and worn out by Portobello hairdresser Loic, originally from Provence. The French always seem to have good taste in bikes and Loic is no exception, having started out ...
Stephanie’s CB350
This CB350 was sent to us by Justin from Boise, Idaho, who built the bike for his wife, Stephanie, after putting together a lovely XS360 for himself. Clearly impressed (and very trusting of his mechanical skills) she ...
JMR Goldwing
Josh Mott is just 22 years old, but is the proprietor of JMR Customs in Boise, Idaho in the US and part-time desert racer. Looking at the styling of this Goldwing custom (yes, it’s a Honda Goldwing), you ...
Dave T’s R100
David Taylor has been hard at work keeping these pages full of shed builds, and this is one of his latest cafe racers, based on a 1993 BMW R100 Café. The donor bike was a minter with ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pure CB500 Four ‘Blue Moon’
Who hasn’t got a soft spot for the original Honda CB500 Four? As a donor for a cafe/brat builds it’s a great start, and unless you really mess things up, you can be sure you’ll end up ...
David T’s CX500
Seems like CX500s are the custom donor of the moment. Yes, they’re ugly and not exactly high performance, but the Guzzi-like v-twin, rounded tank and frame shape are a good start, and it doesn’t take too much ...
Dave’s BMW R65 Tracker
This BMW R65 Tracker was built by Londoner, Dave, and is quite possibly the perfect bike for taking on London’s crumbling, congested roads on a daily basis. Like all Bavarian flat twins of this era, it’s solid, ...
Street Tuff z750 Tracker
Graham is a Precision engineer, living on the Wirral in Merseyside in the UK who’s been into bikes since he was eleven, staring with a BSA bantam, through mopeds, Bultaco’s, vintage British bikes, sports bikes and then ...
Sebastião Guerra’s FX650 SG-01
Sebastiao Guerra is from Lisbon in Portugal and has been a mechanic since he was just 18. He graduated to workshop leader in one of Portugal’s biggest Honda dealerships, so it’s fair to see he knows a ...
Arnie’s Guzzi
Guzzi cafe racers always seem to turn out just-right. They’re built for this kinda conversion with long, low lines, a flat top-frame and one of the prettiest bike engines out there. However, they do seem to come ...
Jeff Snowden’s KZ750
Jeff Snowden is from a small country town in Missouri. He’ll turn his hand to all types of bike build, but prefers Harleys and Cafe Racers. Obviously it was his 1977 KZ750 that caught our attention with ...
Roman’s ZR7/SR2
Roman AKA Romoto from Slovakia has been an amateur bike builder since 1978 and, as you can imagine, has several builds under his belt, but the one that has caught our eye here at The Bike Shed ...
Tommy’s ’78 CX500
This is Tommy Sheen’s 1978 Honda CX500, a bike that he was too modest to share, so we had to persuade him that it was exactly the kind of machine we like to feature here on The ...
Angry Lane’s ’73 Triumph Daytona
As well as being a Creative Director in the design industry, expat Frenchman Benoit (Ben) Barras is co-owner of Hong Kong’s only custom garage, Angry Lane, and this is Ben’s 1973 500cc Daytona Triumph which he’s called ...
JBs 500FT
Jean-Baptiste is from France, close to Lille, and like all Frenchman he has impeccable taste and likes to make sure his ride is as cool as possible (just spend a day in Paris and see what we ...