Steel dream: A scratch-built Yamaha SR400 bobber

Today’s custom motorcycle scene is a melting pot of old and new techniques. Traditional handcrafting methods coexist with software-based design and modern additive manufacturing processes. And sometimes—like in the case of this impossibly elegant Yamaha SR400—they collide. Moscow’s Copper Chopper built this hardtail bobber almost entirely from scratch, using a […]

Speed Read, September 11, 2022

One of the last bikes Barry Sheene ever raced is about to be auctioned off by Bonhams. Plus a look at one of the stars of the recent Glemseck 101 race fest, a Yamaha SR500 that’s still in the crate, and a Honda VFR inspired by Japanese anime. Ex-Barry Sheene […]