It’s that time of year again! And once again, it’s been a year we’re glad to see the back of. The pandemic didn’t seem to put a dent in the custom scene, though: for every larger workshop experiencing a slowdown, there seemed to be an amateur builder taking up the tools.
This list is a purely data-driven exposé of the most popular bikes of 2021. It’s calculated via our website stats, with a focus on page views and social engagement—which went through the roof this year.
Healthy global interest in the custom scene sent our Facebook reach rocketing by 89% over 2020, and our Pinterest channel alone delivered over 329 million impressions.
There were some big surprises for us when crunching numbers for this list, and a couple of bikes are very different in style to our usual big hits.…