Despite the long winter nights and unforgiving climate, Sweden has a thriving custom industry. It’s what we’d call an ‘underground chopper’ scene—with the most famous graduate being BMW designer Ola Stenegärd. But there’s a new wave of modern alt-moto builders coming through, and at the forefront is the small Stockholm shop 6/5/4 Motors. Their bikes are beautifully finished and fun to ride—like this thoroughly revamped Yamaha XT500. “The XT500 is one of our favorite old school bikes,” says…

Bold Motorcycles is the creation of two long-time friends, Pedro and João, who live in Sertã, Portugal -- located in the middle of the nation's longest, most mythical road: the Nacional 2. We were fortunate enough to feature their first build, a 1996 CB500 cafe racer dubbed "B001".Now th

Thailand's K-Speed is a house of many talents. But there's one particular trick that they excel at, and that's turning small-capacity motorcycles into custom machines with big attitudes. So we're not the least bit surprised to see them apply their signature style to the freshly minted Triumph Scrambler 400 X and Speed 400. Created in collaboration with the massive Indian marque Bajaj, Triumph's new 398 cc singles exist to offer potential customers a lower point of entry into the brand…

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