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Road Tested: Retro full face helmets from DMD, Shoei, and Biltwell

It used to be that if you wanted a retro-styled helmet to match your retro-styled motorcycle, your choices were a handful of open face lids from a small pool of manufacturers. But given the proliferation of modern classics in recent years, having feature

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Forever Young: An overgrown mini-bike with a Yamaha snowmobile engine

The last time we heard from Sean Skinner, he’d just built a Yamaha XS650-powered replica of the 1960s Schwinn Stingray Orange Krate bicycle. The oddball creation was a far cry from the tidy restomods that his shop, MotoRelic, is best known for—but

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Living Legend: A meticulously restored 1972 Ducati 750 Sport ‘Z Stripe’

The legend of Paul Smart, Ducati, and the Imola race track is deeply entrenched in motorcycle history. Ducati’s groundbreaking 750 GT was barely a year old when Fabio Taglioni introduced the revolutionary desmodromic valve timing system, paving the

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Elegant Ingenuity: A custom 1990 BMW R100RS by Wedge Motorcycle

Many feel that BMW boxer customization has become a tedious paint-by-numbers affair. It’s a fair argument—after all, most BMW R-series customs follow the same formula so closely, that you’re probably already picturing them in your head. This

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