View Yamaha VMAX INFRARED by Jens von Brauck Photo Gallery The Yamaha VMAX Infrared takes a machine known for visual mass and gives it a much leaner, more focused silhouette. Created by German designer Jens von Brauck, the build keeps the VMAX powerplant and chassis character at the centre while replacing much of the surrounding visual language with compact bodywork, …

View Yamaha XV950 "Playa del Rey" by Matt Black Custom Designs Photo Gallery The Yamaha XV950 Playa del Rey turns a familiar bobber recipe into a much more deliberate custom. Built by Matt Black Custom Designs in San Pedro as a Yamaha Yard Built project, it combines a low solo-seat stance with a carefully finished tank, a distinctive front end …

View Triumph Hellfire Flat Tracker Photo Gallery The Triumph Hellfire Flat Tracker gives a middleweight naked motorcycle a distinctly dirt-track-inspired identity without burying its mechanical core beneath a full custom redesign. Motorcorner’s approach is visual and purposeful: a slim seat, number plates, chunky tyres and a compact tail create the stance, while the original engine and most of the chassis …

This 1980 Ducati Darmah was found discarded in a barn. Being a literal barn fine, it had lay unloved for more than 20 years until a chance conversation landed it in the hands of the guy’s at Rasio. Decided early on that the original forks and twin rear shock setup would be discarded, the frame required some serious modification. All …

View Mission RS Photo Gallery The Mission RS presents electric performance in the visual language of a serious superbike: a tightly wrapped fairing, a narrow tail, exposed gold frame tubes and a pair of broad black wheels. It was announced as a limited road-going model based on the architecture of Mission’s race motorcycle, with a proposed production run of 40 …

View Uno Photo Gallery The Uno does not resemble a conventional motorcycle so much as a compact vehicle wrapped around a balancing experiment. Finished in bright orange and grey, Benjamin Gulak’s one-off machine places two wheels side by side beneath a sharply styled body and uses electronic gyroscopes to remain upright. It first appeared publicly at the 2008 National Motorcycle …

View Von Dutch Moto Guzzi Falcone Photo Gallery The Von Dutch Moto Guzzi Falcone is a custom built around contrast: a 500cc single-cylinder engine and exposed mechanical hardware sit beneath an unusually smooth black fiberglass shell. Dick Cormany’s machine looks less like a conventional period special than a carefully resolved exercise in motorcycle coachwork, with gold pinstriping providing the only …

View The Machine by Yuri Shif Customs Photo Gallery The Machine is a striking custom motorcycle credited in the supplied material to Trollworx Choppers, built around a deliberately exposed mechanical centerpiece. Its deep violet frame, polished metalwork and sculpted white body panels create a look that sits somewhere between a streamlined special and a hand-finished engineering display. A frame designed …

View Shovelhead by Trollworx Choppers Photo Gallery This Shovelhead from Trollworx Choppers takes a restrained approach to custom styling. Satin-black bodywork sets the tone, while polished engine cases, bright spokes and a tall chrome front end keep the motorcycle from disappearing into a single dark shape. The result is a traditional cruiser with enough visual tension to reward a closer …

View Snake Road Concept by Bruno Delussu Photo Gallery Bruno Delussu’s Snake Road is a motorcycle concept built around one dominant idea: reduce the conventional motorcycle to a low, smooth mechanical body with the alert posture of a snake. The supplied renders show a white, heavily enclosed design with a slim front wheel, an oversized rear tire and just enough …