Ride Report Journal
January 29, 2019
XTR Pepo Ducati 821
Madrid's XTR Pepo turns-out endurance racer inspired customs at a furious rate and this 2016 Ducati Monster 821 is t...
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January 28, 2019
Motorcycle-Diaries - On Her Bike
After her first BMW was wrecked in an RTA, and she'd recovered from the injuries, Kinga Tanajewska quit her engineer...
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January 24, 2019
Dani Pedrosa's Deus Tracker
With a heavy heart, and a busted skeleton, fan and 'Shed favourite Dani Pedrosa hung up his helmet and retired from ...
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January 22, 2019
Triumph Factory Customs
At last!! When Triumph took over our arches in October 2015 to launch their new Bonneville range the Thruxton was th...
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January 17, 2019
Handcrafted - Custom Motorcycle Film
Living on a giant island miles from anywhere instills a make do and mend culture, and the Australian custom motorcyc...
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January 17, 2019
Watkins M001
Setting out plinths at the Bike Shed show isn't the most complicated of tasks but last year one of our volunteers be...
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January 16, 2019
Rua Machines #13
Portugal has long been a hotbed of custom creativity in Europe and one of the main protagonists since the early days...
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January 14, 2019
Bonhams Auction - Las Vegas
I'm not in the market for any more motorcycles, especially the pricey investment type, but if I was I'd be registeri...
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January 10, 2019
JVB Moto - R nineT Kit
JVB Moto have launched another bolt-on kit for the BMW R nineT, and this version has just been released by their dis...
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January 10, 2019
Torotrail Off-Roading in Spain
For me 2018 was the year where I finally stopped talking about off-roading and started doing more of it. My soul has...
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January 08, 2019
Honda CR750
As the lines have become ever more blurred in the custom world between traditional café racers and actual race bik...
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January 08, 2019
Dakar at the Bike Shed
Finally! Stew and I have been banging on for ages about having a proper Dakar presence here at the Bike Shed during ...
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January 07, 2019
North East Custom Super Ténéré
With the Dakar Rally underway I've had to unfollow all of my heroes and favourite teams in case a glory post spoils...
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December 29, 2018
Triumph Scrambler 1200 - Bike World
If you couldn't be arsed to read my ramblings and want to here another view from the Triumph Scrambler 1200 press lau...
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December 23, 2018
Cowboy's Chopper CL360
Over the last few of years Taiwan has been stamped firmly on the custom map some talented workshops. We recently fea...
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December 19, 2018
Triumph Scrambler 1200 - Ride Report
The revival of the scrambler as a style, a genre even, has brought with it some ambiguity as to what scrambling act...
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December 17, 2018
Scrambler 1200 - Riding Gear
No wonder my case nearly blew the scales at the BA check-in, there's a lot of gear to review here. Thankfully some of...
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December 14, 2018
V-Moto Ducati ST2 996
I met Viv Cowley from V-Moto last year after he surprised us with a really classy Harley build (check the feature he...
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December 13, 2018
Mokka Cycles' CB500 France Express
Mokka Cycles have been making the long trip to our shows from Budapest for a few years now, and we're really glad. T...
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December 11, 2018
MotoGP Live in Shoreditch
In 2014 a few of the original BSMC crew were guests on the then relatively new MotoGP show produced by BT Sport, ju...
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December 11, 2018
46 Works Twins
I didn't make it to the Mooneyes Custom Show, again! Damn it. Wes from Bike Exif did though, check his feature here....
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December 04, 2018
Ross, Stew & Gerry's Spanish Adventure
This year I realised a dream, or silenced a multi-decade procrastination at least, and bought an enduro bike. Howeve...
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December 04, 2018
2019 Triumph Speed Twin
10 years from now I'm convinced Triumph's top brass will be hauled in front of a judge on charges of phone tapping ...
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December 02, 2018
Honda Rebel 500 - Dream Chaser
Despite it being an inherently ugly motorcycle in stock trim, Honda's Rebel 500 has proved popular. After all, under...
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