Built

Built magazine is dedicated to the burgeoning world of retro-styled custom motorcycles and the lifestyle that surrounds them. We meet the world’s best custom bike builders, take silly trips on unsuitable machines and visit the best of the globes custom biking events. Built is the guide to the hot bikes, gear and events in the custom biking world.

SIMPLE CAN BE CLASSY

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MASTER PEACE • KENGO KIMURA WON AT THE MOONEYES SHOW TWO YEARS ON THE TROT. HE TELLS BUILT HOW HE DID IT

Dirty Pigeon

FOREVER TWO WHEELS JAPAN STYLE • THE BREEZY BIKER CAMP IS A JAPANESE CELEBRATION OF COUNTER CULTURE. WE GET THE LOWDOWN ON THE LOWRIDERS

BUILT HAS A NEW HOME ON INSTAGRAM!

BEAT THE CISTERN • A Brittany-based plumber had a pipe-dream to create his own custom bikes. He was flushed with success

YAMAHA XS650

HONDA 600 SHADOW

YAMAHA XJR1200

HONDA XL600M

ROOT BEER FLOAT • Rhett Holley’s stretched and hard-tailed Shovelhead is an esay in the art of chopper minimalism

Drop the dead donkey • Bullita has transformed a 750 virago donkey into this pedigree stallion

Full tilt action • Meet the French custom builder who prefers a more modern take on his cafe racer customs

SkyFin • Siderock Cycles turn a 1990 Guzzi SP1000 into a stunning cafe racer. Boss Pete Hodson explains how

HOLY DEATH • Dubsters in France go mad for So Cal style in a fury of wheelies, stoppies and burn-outs

EXTREME-NESS • Cory builds a showstopping V4 that lives up to the family legacy

black cherry • BUELLS ALWAYS HAD A REP FOR BEING STRIPPED DOWN, HOTROD MOTORCYCLES BUT THIS EXAMPLE FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC TAKES THE NOTION TO ANOTHER LEVEL

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Enfield Elegance • You don’t have to throw fortunes at Enfield’s twins to create a sleek look. Here’s the proof

ENFIELD DIRT • ROYAL ENFIELD ARE TAKING FLAT-TRACK SERIOUSLY. NOT ONLY ARE THEY TAKING ON THE US GIANTS, BUT NOW THEY WANT YOU TO HAVE A GO TOO. BUILT’S GARETH ASHMAN INVESTIGATES

SNARLING SIX • HOW THE LOUIS MECHANICS CREW UNCAGED THE BEAST LURKING WITHIN A SOFA OF OPULENCE

I'LL KEEP IT STOCK • ANDY BROWN TRIED HIS BEST, BUT AFTER NINE MONTHS RIDING HIS DYNA, HE KNEW THINGS HAD TO CHANGE

Start at the end • WHEN AN EXHAUST COMPANY WANTED TO SHOW OFF ITS NEW CLUB-STYLE EXHAUST, THEY NEEDED A CLUB-STYLE HARLEY TO FIT IT TO…

ROBUST AND REFRESHING • BELGIANS LOVE THEIR CRAFT BEER AND BRUSSELS-BASED TOMA CUSTOMS CRAFT BIKES WITH THE EXACT SAME PASSION

Win this Weise leather jacket and Duchinni helmet!

SCRAM TRACKER • YEP, THAT’S RIGHT: A BSA VICTOR SPECIAL WHERE SCRAMBLER MEETS TRACKER

JAKE ROBBINS VINTAGE ENGINEERING LTD • APART FROM THEIR PEUGEOT-POWERED BIKES OF THE EARLY 1900s, NORTON NEVER PRODUCED A V-TWIN. BUT IF THEY HAD, WE BET IT WOULD HAVE LOOKED SOMETHING LIKE THIS