Though Cimatti Motorcycles was founded in 1937, it would be well over a decade before it produced its first motorized two-wheeler. The marque was started by Marco Cimatti, who won a Gold Medal in cycling at the 1932 Olympics. Despite the company starting up in a turbulent period economically, the bicycle manufacturer managed to beat the odds and remain profitable. …
2003 CCM 604 Supermoto
Based out of the UK, Clews Competition Motorcycles is a niche manufacturer that owes its start to the failure of BSA’s racing division – Alan Clews was looking to build a better motocross bike and he snapped up anything he could from BSA after they shut down the competition department. A tumultuous history ensued – Clews sold the company in …
1977 Laverda 1000 V6 Prototype
The 1977 Laverda 1000 V6 Prototype is quite possibly the most interesting bike I’ve ever featured on Bike-urious. Despite the concept for the bike stemming from the questionable idea that was to bring an automotive engineer onboard to design a V6 race engine, it’s still a genuinely awesome machine. This bike doesn’t appear to have the same kind of notoriety …
NCR Leggera 1200 Special Tribute – 2008 Ducati Hypermotard
NCR is unobtanium for most of us, but it doesn’t cost anything to simply lust after their wares – and lusting is all I can do with this exotic called the Leggera 1200. It started as a Ducati Hypermotard but thanks to extreme fettling it produced 30 more horsepower and 16 more pound-feet of torque. More impressively? It weighs 295 …
Harley-Davidson Kit Bike – 1974 Magnacycle
Post Listing Update: The seller relisted this bike several times but never got any interest at the asking price of $18,000. A few weeks later, he pulled the bike off eBay so he may have sold it for an undisclosed amount. A couple of years ago, I featured an oddball custom kit bike as part of a “Guess That Bike” …
Mokka X Phylia Build – 1980 Peripoli Oxford Custom Moped
Small-displacement customs are some of the most fun builds. Their lower-price makes them smaller investments and therefor more accessible to your average rider or builder, when the donor-bike is dramatically less-expensive, you have more funds to play with. There have also been some particularly interesting collaborative builds between custom moto-shops and various (non-moto-industry) companies such as the TW Steel X …
“Bike” Review – 2018 Polaris Slingshot SLR LE
View Post1 of 11 – 1974 Moto Carrera Del Mar Yamaha RD350 Street Tracker
Based out of North Hollywood, California, Moto Carrera was a specialty shop for 2-stroke sportbikes. They were probably best known for the development of some aftermarket parts (especially for Yamaha RDs) like their rearsets and Millenium GP exhausts, but their most significant accomplishment was the creation of the “Del Mar”, a limited production run of RD350-based street trackers. 11 were …
Factory Racer – 2012 KTM XC-F 250
KTM has built a gang of race-winning machinery and though its current MotoGP racer (RC16) has some “room for improvement”, when it comes to producing top-of-the-podium off-road competition bikes, KTM kills it. Even when factory machines are five to ten years old, they’re still wildly competent when compared to today’s production offerings. They’re also always decked out in trick high-end …
1 of 200 – 1987 Ducati F1 Laguna Seca
The Ducati F1 750 is a machine of historical significance as it’s widely considered to be the last “true Ducati” prior to Cagiva taking over. The F1 was a street-legal updated version of the mid-’80’s TT1. From ’86 to ’88 Ducati would release a trio of special edition F1’s in celebration of the machine’s various successes around the world – …
2017 Magni MV Filo Rosso
Modern-retro sport bikes rarely get it right. Often times the mix of old and new results in a cool vintage looking machine with poor performance. Though this is far from your regular modern-retro, the Magni MV Agusta Filo Rosso gets it right, and then some. The beautiful Italian triples are handmade by Giovanni Magni in the Moto Magni factory just …
Still New – 1983 Ducati 900 Mike Hailwood Replica
Ducati Mike Hailwood replicas are some of the most coveted motorcycles in the last half-century. Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood is an objective legend, with 10 world championship titles, 76 GP championship races, and 14 TT wins, all in a career that spanned roughly two decades. A little over a decade after he passed away, Sport Rider magazine called him “ …
Exotic Italian in Switzerland – 2003 Benelli Tornado Novecento Tre
Yesterday Abhi featured a 1974 Benelli Tornado, so when I came across a pristine first-year Tornado Tre example from 2003 I just couldn’t resist. The Tornado failed to garner the same level of attention that its fellow Italian sport bikes of the early-2000’s did (like the MV F4 and Ducati 916) but it’s nonetheless a stellar motorcycle. The model was …
2012 Martin Conquest 1200 Wheelchair Trike
Trikes have the unique ability of empowering and enabling people to ride who otherwise couldn’t due to age, injury, handicap, or plenty of other reasons. Enter Martin Conquest, a UK-based moco who wanted to give the gift of riding to those bound to wheelchairs, creating the world’s first – as the creators call it – “Wheelchair Motorcycle” that can be …
1974 Benelli Tornado 650S
Post Sale Update: After being relisted, this Tornado sold for a BIN of $3,800 on eBay. While Benelli had some good success with small displacement bikes, they knew that many American and British riders were only throwing their money at big bikes, and the Italian firm had nothing to attract those dollars. They decided to target these riders with a …