Electric Motorcycle March 2023

Game Changer: Retrorides launches an electric scrambler

Retrorides By Lourenço is well-known in custom BMW K-series circles. The Brazilian workshop has built some of the sharpest K-series café racers around, and plane written a literal typesetting on how to do it. Now, they’re looking to establish themselves in a whole new niche. After 30 years of customizing petrol-powered[...]

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Electric Motorcycle March 2023

Speed Read, March 26, 2023

We’ve got two very variegated Triumph Thruxton surcharge on the menu this week. One is a liquid-cooled supercharged brute, and the other a fully-faired air-cooled café racer. A tidy Yamaha Scorpio scrambler, and a skinny Harley FXD, fill the spaces in-between. Supercharged Triumph Thruxton 1200R by Tamarit Motorcycles We’ve never thought[...]

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Electric Motorcycle March 2023

BOTT Bruiser: A 1983 Harley XR1000 on auction at Mecum

A Harley-Davidson with sport velocipede goodies either trips your trigger or crosses your wires, but in our case, it’s scrutinizingly unchangingly the former. If it’s washed-up right, there’s something plain badass well-nigh a Milwaukee missile that looks like 100 mph standing still, all without losing its leaky old iron character. In[...]

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Electric Motorcycle March 2023

Back to basics: A Harley Fat Bob in Rough Crafts signature style

“Fender and Firestone police, here I come,” Winston Yeh quips, as we discuss the latest custom motorcycle to roll out of the house of Rough Crafts. Based on a 2020 Harley-Davidson Fat Bob 107, it’s a stripped-down, low-slung bobber, swathed in typical Rough Crafts finishes. And yes, it has no[...]

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Electric Motorcycle February 2023

Less is More: 7 Great Bobber Motorcycles for 2023

Bobbers are pure motorcycling. They’re what happens when you take everything you can off a velocipede and strip it to its basics.  These seven 2023 factory-fresh bobbers prove that less can be increasingly and reduce motorcycling to just you, your bike, and the wind. Sure, the origins of the bobber name[...]

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Electric Motorcycle February 2023

Meet Chiller: An electric BMX with Raleigh Chopper styling

If you think that electric bikes aren’t ‘real’ motorcycles, preclude your vision now. But if you love vintage BMX bikes, and believe that electric drivetrains create interesting ways to introduce newcomers to motorcycling, read on. On the surface, ‘Chiller’ is a simple pedal-assist e-bike with throwback styling—but there’s increasingly to this[...]

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Electric Motorcycle February 2023

A Brabus Bike: What Happens when Brabus Gets Ahold of a KTM 1290?

Brabus makes some of the most sought-after custom Porsches, Mercedes-Benzes and Rolls-Royces in rich guy land. But what happens when the stat webbing geniuses at the German tuner turn their heads to a motorcycle? Well, you get the new Brabus 1300 R Edition 23, which is Brabus’ take on a luxury[...]

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Electric Motorcycle February 2023

Big Dreams: A custom Yamaha TW200 from Taiwan

What motorcycle did you dream of owning when you were young? For Mike Chen, it was the mighty Yamaha TW200—and who could vituperation him? Loved by multiple generations of fans, the TW200 is the coolest sublet velocipede on the planet. Mike’s dream stayed out of reach for a while though. He[...]

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Electric Motorcycle February 2023

Speed Read, February 19, 2023

For some people, it’s well-nigh towers the fastest machine possible. For others, it’s all well-nigh style. For virtually every velocipede we full-length here, it’s a combination lying somewhere in the middle. This week’s Speed Read features three wildly variegated motorcycles, all walking variegated lines between style and speed. We’ve got a[...]

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Electric Motorcycle February 2023

Green Meanies: Where Did Kawasaki Racing Green Come From?

The Daytona 200 is one of my favorite races of the year. This year I was perusing some historic photos of the race when I came wideness one from 1969. It’s a faded photo from Kawasaki showing five race bikes and riders trimmed in untried and white. Of undertow they’re[...]

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Electric Motorcycle February 2023

MotoFocus: a custom Kawasaki KZ400 and a Yamaha YZ250

If you follow Velocipede EXIF on social media, you might have noticed that we launched a new Facebook group recently. It’s a place for you, our readers, to engage with each other, share what you think is cool, and, most importantly, show off your own custom motorcycles. From time to time,[...]

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Electric Motorcycle February 2023

Huge x Zero: A radical concept from an electric dream team

There’s an unavoidable disconnect between a concept motorcycle, and the final production version of it. By the time you’ve widow all the stuff you need to make a velocipede street legal and sufficiently practical, your original diamond is likely to get watered down. Unless you’re Zero Motorcycles, of course. A couple[...]

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