Shoei has produced motorcycle helmets since 1958. More than 30 years after Shoei’s first helmets made their way into the marketplace, I bought my first Shoei, an RF-200, during the initial year of it’s production in 1989. Before the end of its production cycle in 1995, thanks to saving me in one crash, I owned a couple of them. Since…
Well, that wraps up yet another year of amazing cafe racer builds from custom workshops and backyard builders around the globe. Despite everything that took place in 2020 we were overwhelmed by the quality and quantity of cafe racer projects being submitted this year. It seems that despite a global pandemic and all the horrendous happenings that came with it,…
This time each year, we gather our web and social media stats and pick the ten most popular custom motorcycles of the year. Once we’ve got that out of our system, I have the daunting task of throwing the stats out the window—and picking my personal favorites. It was an especially tough gig this year, with a global pandemic doing…