Classic and Custom Motorcycles

Maybe you're too young. Or perhaps you are not intimately acquainted with automotive racing history. Whatever the reason, if dark and light blue stripes with red fail to make your heart go pitter-patter, you might miss the inspiration for the Ultimate MotorCycling Ducati 1098 Special.

Ever try to put lipstick on a Pitbull? It's a hazardous enterprise. Blood is spilled. Fingers vanish. Michael Vick leaves nasty messages on your voicemail. Ignoring the obvious peril, the brave souls at Big Dog Motorcycles have given their vicious, 10-year-old Pitbull a complete makeover for 2008. Admirers of the ill-tempered street dog need not fear—this is no Queer Eye, metrosexual de-fanging.

With sales of the 1946-1958 Ducati Cucciolo booming, Ducati turned its attention to racing. It was with the Gran Sport motorcycles - affectionately called the Ducati Marianna - that Ducati began its racing success. The Ducati Marianna immediately became unbeatable, rendering the name Ducati synonymous with victory in the racing world.

I would finally get the opportunity to walk through the factory gates and step into motorcycling history that started back in 1917 during the First World War. At the time, three young Italian pilots were fighting for their country in the Italian Air force: Carlo Guzzi, Giorgio Ripamonti and a well-known racer of the day, Giovanni Ravelli.

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After building my first custom bike at age 14, a 1972 Yamaha GT80 with 1979 Kawasaki KX80 front forks and shocks which turned out remarkably well, I had the itch to build motorcycles.                                               

In 1974 I was in high school, deeply embedded in my obsession with the budding sport of motocross. I was the happy owner of a 1973 Honda Elsinore but, as with all riders, was constantly aware of - and in some cases desirous - of other machines.

A unique motorcycle created for the 2011 Great Escape 2 - a charity motorcycle ride across Europe to commemorate the 50 RAF officers who met their demise after the so-called "Great Escape" from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in March 1944 - is to be sold in Bonhams auction of Collectors' Motorcars and Motorcycles on Th

Ever want to build a cafe bike, but don't have the time or means to customize every piece? Well Ryca Motors has the answer - the Ryca CS-1 Kit.

With the CS-1 kit, all you need is a Suzuki S40 Savage, a machine that was build since 1986, and features an air-cooled 650cc single cylinder engine, electric start, five-speed transmission and gets up to 60 mpg.