Custom Shops

MotoKouture is a Belgium custom shop which focusses on creating bespoke motorcycles. This time their attention has been turned towards a Buell XB12.

Found a picture of this bike on a moto art blog and tracked it back to a talented multi-disciplinary shop outfit from Amsterdam called Nozem. Amsterdam is well known for many things.

Found this today after looking for some BMW inspiration. This beauty was created by the guys at Kiddo Motors.

Similar to what Yamaha did with the relaunch of the infamous SR400, BMW has also come to realise the influence custom builders are having on the motorcycle market. This time BMW are utilising their latest creation theas the blank …The four builders holding back their excitement during the unveilingThe BMW's have been becoming increasingly popular as a custom platform, and the thing about this model from BMW is that one of their main goals was to encourage exactly this.

I love black motorcycles but for me it's always been such a simple choice in scheme to have everything with the pigment removed. Lately I've started becoming more of a fan of the flat black color scheme, especially this 84 …We've seen a fair amount of custom BMWs recently and I especially like the composition of the seat and tank on this one.

I stumbled across an image of one of these machines a while back but was unable to find the source or the builder of this machine. I finally tracked it down to being a gentleman by the name of Chicara …A Japanese native from Kyusyu Island, Chicara doesn't use any fancy machines to build these works of art, but simple hand tools.

Tank prepped and ready for paint In between non-bike related work we've managed to keep things ticking over, thanks to bike night our weekly ritual.The progress on the Blossom the SR tracker is coming along nicely with most parts …We also managed to pop out a rather large ding from the Sweet Honda tank by spotting a couple of pieces of my old CD stand, we could probably thank Spotify for that.

It's been 16 years since Go Takamine first opened up Bratstyle. Something which has changed the world of custom motorcycles forever.