Does the custom motorcycle workshop team at K-Speed ever sleep? Judging by the rate at which fresh customs roll off their floor, we’re guessing not. The Thai powerhouse’s custom shop runs alongside their humming parts manufacturing business, so the two often bleed into each other. Sometimes they use their custom builds to develop new parts, and sometimes they use those parts to reproduce their most popular custom builds.
Even though they’ve worked on plenty of big bikes, it’s K-Speed’s Honda Cub and Monkey customs that keep us coming back for more.
The iconic Kenny Roberts speed block livery gets a new twist this week, in the form of a Yamaha XJR1300 street tracker from France. Further afield, Thailand’s K-Speed revisits one of their most popular Honda Grom designs, while an extremely rare 1980s Ducati goes up for sale in the US. We conclude this week’s offering…
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Big bikes bookend this edition of Speed Read. We start with a 1,700 cc single-cylinder chopper and finish with a BMW R18 from CW Zon. Sitting in the middle are a classy Honda CB200 café racer from Indonesia and a K-Speed kit for the Honda Dax.
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We kick things off with a feel-good story of a botched Ducati 996 custom job, rescued by a talented garage builder. Then we look at a dazzling Yamaha SR500 flat tracker from 20-year-old Moritz Bree, a dustbin-faired Honda Dax from K-Speed, and a BMW CE 04 scooter from Deus ex Machina.
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When the Honda Dax was brought back into production a couple of years ago, K-Speed wasted little time getting their grubby paws on it. The Thai powerhouse’s founder, the mysterious Mr Eak, had a 50 cc Dax as a teenager—and the workshop is particularly good at customizing small Hondas. So a K-Speed-customized Dax was inevitable.…
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Thailand’s K-Speed is a house of many talents. But there’s one particular trick that they excel at, and that’s turning small-capacity motorcycles…
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K-Speed is quite possibly the world’s most prolific custom motorcycle workshop. The Thai outfit builds bikes at a blistering rate—and while they…
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Run by the enigmatic Mr. Eak, Thailand’s K-Speed is one of the most prolific custom shops that we’ve ever had the pleasure…
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Many people wouldn’t consider a small commuter bike a good donor for a custom project. They’re usually cheap, utilitarian and bland; hardly…
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We’ve got two very different Triumph Thruxton customs on the menu this week. One is a liquid-cooled supercharged brute, and the other…
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It’s just a couple of days to Christmas—and if you still don’t know what to get yourself, maybe a kit to transform…
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Does the custom motorcycle workshop team at K-Speed ever sleep? Judging by the rate at which fresh and tasty customs roll off…
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The fact that you can still buy a brand new Honda Super Cub today, more than six decades after it first launched,…
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