Category - Tracker

TOUGH VINTAGE: 1976 Honda CB750 ‘M6’ by MONNOM Customs.

This story begins like many others: someone starts tearing a bike apart but soon enough realises that they don't have the time to finish the project or are in way over their head. So the bike sits in a barn or garage for years, waiting for someone, anyone, to...

URBAN ASSAULT: Yamaha TW200 Tracker by Purpose Built Moto.

Over the decades, the humble little Yamaha TW200 has usually been used as a farm or ‘ag’ bike. But more recently, companies like Deus Ex Machina have been turning these reliable thumpers into beach trackers with fat tyres and surfboard racks. So when a...

GOOD AS GOLD: 2019 Husqvarna Svartpilen ‘Black Arrow’ by See See Motorcycles

There’s something extra special about starting with a pile of crap and building it into a prized possession. It's this understated story that once there was nothing, or little to nothing and now there is something. An idea that the object was saved from...

PERFECT PROPORTIONS: Yamaha XT600 BS ONE by Krystian & Janusz Bednarek.

As someone who found math class boring, I never could relate to the comment by the English genius G.H. Hardy that “mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject”. That was until Polish builder Krystian Bednarek explained with great enthusiasm...

MIRACLE MISTAKE: Honda CB750 ‘Tuna’ by FingersCrossed Moto

The thing about making mistakes is they usually lead to interesting places. The journey down the path reveals more detail, more possibility, and more to learn. FingersCrossed Moto has forged a path by running a small community garage in Lancaster,...

A TIMELESS MEMORY: Honda CL350F by Northbilt Customs

Written by Ricky Ventaglio “You say you want a revolution. Well, you know, we all want to change the world” sang John Lennon in 1968. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. took Lennon’s words on board and between 1972 and 1974 the factory produced what would change the...

MYTHICAL MACHINE: Yamaha XS360 ‘Smaug’ by Panache Customs

Known as the one with the 'wrongful impulse to hoard, to accumulate beyond what one can use and to refuse to share with others', no he is not the bloke on your street stockpiling mountains of toilet paper, but the great dragon of The Hobbit, Smaug. This was...

INTO THE WILD: BMW R100GS by Woidwerk

To say that the BMW R series range of motorcycles has become a huge hit in the custom scene is the mother of all understatements. Even the conservative big Bavarian caught on, releasing the R nineT five years ago and has the bruising R18 on the way. But aside...

STREET APPEAL: Suzuki DR650 Street Tracker by Seven Motorcycles

Just after midday on the 22nd of February, the streets of Christchurch New Zealand started shaking violently. This wasn’t the first time they had experience an earthquake – the city is built on a seismic fault line. Not only did the quake kill 185 people...

FUN MACHINE: 1984 Kawasaki KLR250 by Berg & Co

The days of the vast majority of the workforce clocking in at nine in the morning and heading home by five are all but over. The gig economy is here, shifts are scattered around the clock and job security can be a week by week proposition; no wonder people...