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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

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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