The very best of the 2025 Speed and Crafts custom bike show in Taiwan
The brainchild of Rough Crafts frontman Winston Yeh, the Speed and Crafts custom bike show ran for the second time earlier this…
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Harley-Davidson is an icon of American culture and the most popular marque for custom builders. Shortly after the company was founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, customizers started bobbing, chopping and dirt tracking the famous V-twins.
After WW2 Harley motorcycles were at the center of the bobber craze, and kept their lead as Californian bikers turned to choppers in the late 1950s. The 45-degree engines have their own nicknames and folklore: from flatheads, knuckleheads, panheads and shovelheads to today’s Evolution and Milwaukee-Eight motors.
The Sportster is the basis for more Harley-Davidson customs than any other model. Originally fitted with an ‘Ironhead’ motor, it turned 60 years old in 2017. It’s probably the single most customized motorcycle on the planet, and certainly has the largest supply of aftermarket parts.
Wildwood: A modern Harley-Davidson beach racer
Every year, over the first weekend of October, scores of vintage motorcycles and hot rods descend on Wildwood, New Jersey, USA for…
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Savin’ Lives: 5 Things to Consider in an Aftermarket Motorcycle Exhaust
A good exhaust note is one of your motorcycle’s most visceral aspects. The connection from your ear drums to your right wrist…
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Mad Raider: An argent Harley Sportster chopper by Rough Crafts
To say that Winston Yeh likes the color black would be a gross understatement. The man behind Taiwan’s Rough Crafts has a…
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Speed Read: The race-bred Harley-Davidson CVO Road Glide RR and more
If you’re a fan of the totally bonkers King of the Banners race series, the Motor Co. has a bike for you.…
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Speed Read: A sparkling Yamaha XS650 chopper and three Harleys
A lone Yamaha XS650 chopper stands against a sea of Harley-Davidsons this week. Following it are a Harley XR1000 flat tracker, a…
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Event Report: 5 Customs from the Las Vegas One Motorcycle Show
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 15 years since the first One Motorcycle Show was held back in 2010, and 2025…
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XR1200: A 1997 Harley Sportster flat tracker from the French Riviera
You can often tell when a custom motorcycle has been built merely to gawk at, and when it’s been built to be…
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The 2025 Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 ST is an ADV bike for the street
Despite what hardcore adventure riders will tell you, most adventure bikes never leave the asphalt. Not that there’s anything wrong with that—thanks…
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Boat Tail Blues: Origins of the FX Super Glide and its Infamous Saddle
When it comes to Harley-Davidson design, the 1971 FX Super Glide is one of those bikes that people either love, or love…
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Ebony Evo: 2LOUD transforms the Harley Sportster Seventy-Two
Harley-Davidson may have dropped the Evo Sportster from its range, but that doesn’t mean it’s going away any time soon. The ‘old’…
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Speed Read: A Harley XR750 replica from Australia and more
Australia’s Gasoline Motor Co. turns a Sportster into a fetching Harley XR750 replica, South Korea’s Crazy Garage transforms a Ducati Hypermotard, and…
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