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Harley-Davidson Titanium Is a Lower and Slimmer Breakout

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com German Harley-Davidson dealer/custom bike builder Thunderbike has been in the business of reimagining Milwaukee made machines for two decades now, and one of the favorite stock motorcycles it likes to tamper with is the Breakout. Part of the Softail family that presently includes no less than 12 models, the Breakout […]

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1969 Triumph T120R Bonneville La Sal del Diablo Delivers an R-Rated Message

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com In the world of cars and motorcycles alike, the name Bonneville is held in high regard. Often associated with the Salt Flats in Utah, a place where for decades daredevils have gone to challenge speed demons that tormented them, the name also inspired a number of vehicles that were made

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1976 BMW R45 Gonzo Tried to Be the Opposite of Custom, and It Nailed It

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Usually when going for a custom motorcycle build, most garages choose the flamboyant way of doing things. We usually get to see extensive engineering, sculpted parts, and a wealth of eye-popping colors and visual tricks that are supposed to leave us in awe. But not this build here. Sometime in

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Harley-Davidson Black Rebel Is a Full Custom Thunderbike

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com As one of the largest Harley-Davidson garages on the European continent, Thunderbike has a long list of custom parts at the ready for any build that is required of them. And with 20 years of customizing Harleys behind them, the Germans are not playing around. Usually Thunderbike builds come to

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Top Gun-Inspired Federal Moto FED-016 “Danger Zone” Isn’t Your Average Kawasaki

by Mircea Panait from https://www.autoevolution.com Back in April, news broke out about Top Gun: Maverick. One of the most anticipated movies of 2020 has been pushed back to December 23rd instead of June 24th, morphing from a summer blockbuster to a Christmas blockbuster. As opposed to the lovely GPZ900R from the 1986 original, Tom Cruise

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Harley-Davidson Country Cruiser Comes with Two Rear Wheels

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com The European custom motorcycle industry is not even close in terms of size and reach as that in the U.S. but that doesn’t mean there aren’t shops on the continent that strive to keep this segment populated with constant new builds. German Thunderbike is one such shop, and this here

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Harley-Davidson Laguna Seca Pays Tribute to a Race Track It Would Look Great On

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Tribute motorcycles are a dime a dozen in the custom industry. Most of the time, though, these builds like to honor older self-propelled machines, be they two- or four-wheeled, but that’s not the case with the bike in the gallery below. This is another creation of German custom Harley garage

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Vagabund V12 BMW R100 RT May Looks Like a Monster, But It’s Fully Street Legal

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com The now defunct BMW R100 line, debuted by German bike maker BMW in 1976, went down in history as the last line of the air-cooled airheads produced by the Bavarians. While on the market, the family included a wide variety of models, and enough of them were made over the

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Screamin’ Eagle-Engined Airstrike Highnecker Is a Pure German Custom Motorcycle

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Because June is Two-Wheeler Month here at autoevolution, expect to see a wealth of crazy vehicles from this category being displayed before your eyes. Older or newer, famous or less so, all will get their time under the spotlight as we are trying to celebrate the best in the world

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Stripped Down Yamaha SR Winning Loser Is All About Bare Minimum Hardware

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com It’s Two-Wheeler Month here at autoevolution, so expect to see some of the craziest builds in the industry being featured here over the next 30 days, no matter the category they play in: motorcycles, scooters, bikes, and anything in between. For what it’s worth, we’ll be trying not to flood

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Pack of Custom Harley-Davidsons Out Hunting, Apex Predator Leads the Way

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com/ In April 2020, Harley-Davidson concluded a custom build competition called King of Kings. Dedicated to its network of international dealers, the contest saw some incredible machines coming out the door of garages spread throughout the world. King of Kings was the coronation of an older, similar Harley initiative called Battle

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Harley-Davidson Forty-Eight Gets Low Stance and High Exhaust

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Two weeks after we started, we came to the end of our Harley-Davidson King of King’s coverage. Of the 15 bikes that took part in the competition, only one is left, the one its builders call the Harley-Davidson XL 1200 FT. The creation of Harley’s dealer in Bordeaux, France, the

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Harley-Davidson Iron RR Is How an 883 Looks Like With Stage IV Tuning

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Two weeks in, there are not that many bikes left to talk about in our coverage of the Harley-Davidson 2020 King of Kings competition. Only two are still to be admired, and one them is this Polish-born Iron RR. The build-off event dedicated to Harley’s international dealers concluded in April,

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Blacked Out Harley-Davidson Melville Has More Tattoos Than a Yakuza Henchman

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Technically, this modified Harley-Davidson Forty-Eight has been designed to be incarnation of a bunch of Japanese myths. Looked at from afar and in a totally superficial manner, it looks more like something the Yakuza would ride around on. The bike is the creation of Harley-Davidson’s dealer in Shizuoka. It has

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Harley-Davidson French’n Cheap Is the Sharpest, Cleanest Build in King of Kings

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com The Harley-Davidson King of Kings competition revealed once more just how talented the people working for the bike maker’s dealers are. 15 incredible entries have been judged and voted back in April, and at the end just one emerged victorious: the Mexican Apex Predator. But each of the builds that

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Harley-Davidson El Ganador Is How the Brits Build Club Style Motorcycles

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com Harley-Davidson’s King of Kings competition may have concluded last month, but it will probably be some time before all of the builds that were entered fade into history. A souped-up version of Battle of the Kings, King of Kings was dedicated to the bike maker’s international dealers, which in their

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Harley-Davidson Daytona’s Red Has a Transparent Fuel Tank

by Daniel Patrascu from https://www.autoevolution.com There have been 15 entries in all in Harley-Davidson’s King of Kings custom bike building competition, and the winner was crowned the Mexican-made Apex Predator. The bike is, of course, a great build, but that doesn’t mean the ones who lost are anything less. King of Kings was the culmination

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