29/02/2012
Custom Bikes & Café Racers
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With the market for custom bikes and café racers booming at the moment, Classic Driver has collected its best articles together.
The Mouse Trap by Deus ex Machina
Australian custom builder Deus ex Machina has taken a 2008 Yamaha Scorpio bike as a donor and totally rebuilt it, spraying it baby blue and adding the finishing touch of ‘Tom’, from Tom and Jerry, whose characteristic profile acts as a tank badge... read more >>
Métisse Desert Racer: Built for Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen’s legendary motorcycle leap over the fence of a prisoner-of-war camp in the film The Great Escape is an image not easily forgotten. Now, Métisse Motorcycles has created a limited production run of the film star’s own bike, the Métisse Desert Racer, originally developed for serious competition use... read more >>
Mac Motorcycles: Café Racer
A new British make of motorcycle has arrived, with the launch of Mac Motorcycles – a collaboration between Ellis Pitt and the motorcycle design studio, Xenophya Design. These are not modern, hi-tech superbikes but interpretations of historical two-wheelers with a touch of the Ace Café about them... read more >>
Black Falcon: Concept Three of Ten
Industrial designer Ian Barry has presented his latest masterpiece at the Californian Quail Motorcycle Gathering. The Black Falcon, a drag racer based on the legendary Vincent Black Shadow, is the third of the 10 custom creations Barry’s planning, based on classic pre- and post-War British motorcycles. .. read more >>
Falcon Motorcycles: Concept Ten
Ten unique motorcycles built up from salvaged frames and engines: this is what Los Angeles-based company Falcon Motorcycles is offering, but only to select clientele. The very special creations are in hot demand in Hollywood but not every customer is accepted... read more >>
Text: Classic Driver
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