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Wild Ride: The Isle of Man TT, Motorcycling's Greatest Test of Machine

Wild Ride: The Isle of Man TT, Motorcycling's Greatest Test of Machine

You have likely never watched a missile travelling over 300km/h hurtle past at ground level. To know how it feels, stand at Bray Hill on the Isle of Man for the jaw-dropping Tourist Trophy races.

5 Aug 2016 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Push Forward: How CR&S and the Duu Reinvent the Motorcycle
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Push Forward: How CR&S and the Duu Reinvent the Motorcycle

Founded in 2004 by four Italian enthusiasts, Milanese boutique manufacturer CR&S set out to surprise and transform motorcycling. Their latest model, the Duu, looks set to make the marque genuinely unforgettable.

12 Jan 2016 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Riding Away: The Midual Type 1 and Its Six-Figure Justification

Riding Away: The Midual Type 1 and Its Six-Figure Justification

Can a motorbike really command a six-figure price? At 140,000 euros, the Midual Type 1 manages it, not through gold plating but through two decades of patient perfection and genuinely original, innovative engineering thinking.

11 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke 2 min

A Mixed Bag: How Longchamp's Le Pliage Folded Its Way to Fame

A Mixed Bag: How Longchamp's Le Pliage Folded Its Way to Fame

Foldable, adaptable and bought by more than thirty million owners, Longchamp's Le Pliage has triumphed since 1993. Inspired by Japanese origami, its light, water-resistant nylon body and Russian leather trims made it an enduring everyday classic.

8 Jan 2015 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Easy Rider: Surrendering To The Open Road On A Harley-Davidson

Easy Rider: Surrendering To The Open Road On A Harley-Davidson

On the outside, it seems you never truly own a Harley-Davidson; rather, it owns you. So immersive is the culture that even the motoring press gets swept up, as our writer discovers astride a Heritage.

24 Oct 2014 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Technical Knockout: Ducati's 899 Panigale Brings The Superbike Down To Earth

Technical Knockout: Ducati's 899 Panigale Brings The Superbike Down To Earth

Now under Audi's ownership via Lamborghini, Ducati appears unchanged, following its mind-blowing 1199 Panigale with a scaled-down, more affordable sibling. Yet that is where the resemblance ends, for the 899 is something altogether different.

13 Jun 2014 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Can One-Off Custom Motorcycle Commissions Ever be Considered Art? Certainly if They’re by Chicara Nagata

Can One-Off Custom Motorcycle Commissions Ever be Considered Art? Certainly if They’re by Chicara Nagata

Many of us are passionate about things. Machines, electronics, mechanical and material things. Things that make our lives easier. Or more exciting. Cars, planes, computers, dishwashers, hairdryers, even high-heeled shoes; somewhere there’s someone with a passion for almost anything you …

6 Apr 2014 By Official Bespoke 4 min

City Slicker: Harley-Davidson's New Street Platform and a Woman Rider's Reluctant Conversion

City Slicker: Harley-Davidson's New Street Platform and a Woman Rider's Reluctant Conversion

Thirteen years after its last all-new platform, Harley-Davidson's Street series marks a bold new direction. President Matthew S. Levatich calls it less intimidating and more inviting, a claim tested by one Arab woman biker.

24 Jan 2014 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Chop It Up: The Kuwaiti Builder Crafting Motorbikes From Scratch

Chop It Up: The Kuwaiti Builder Crafting Motorbikes From Scratch

It is five o'clock on a Thursday outside Kuwait City, and while locals head home, Hussein Salmeen's work is just beginning. This weekend the thirty-eight-year-old is building a motorbike from metal, chassis, fuel tank, wheels and welding torch.

7 Feb 2013 By Official Bespoke 4 min

Off the Beaten Path: The Rumbler, a Custom Triumph Scrambler for Tridays Rumble

Off the Beaten Path: The Rumbler, a Custom Triumph Scrambler for Tridays Rumble

Our 2013 Ultimate Bike is no record-breaker, but the Rumbler is an accomplished all-rounder with retro good looks. A customised Triumph Scrambler, it was built to race Austria's grass-track Tridays Rumble each June.

29 Jan 2013 By Official Bespoke 2 min

Easy Rider: The Harley-Davidson Softail Slim, a Welcoming First Big Bike

Easy Rider: The Harley-Davidson Softail Slim, a Welcoming First Big Bike

You may prefer four wheels to two, but Harley-Davidson's new Softail Slim is a welcoming machine for riders moving up to a large-engined bike for the first time, equal parts retro objet d'art and motorcycle.

8 Jul 2012 By Official Bespoke 3 min

Man power

Man power

While the rugged GS and super-fast RR motorcycles fly the flag high for the German brand’s motorcycle division, BMW is not however a company you’d immediately associate with bicycles. The truth of the matter is that any such assumption is misplaced; the Bavarian firm has been dabbling in p

30 Dec 2010 By Official Bespoke 1 min