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.

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IRONS IN THE FIRE • IT TOOK SOME SERIOUS ALCHEMY FOR PEPO ROSELL TO CREATE THIS STUNNING SPRINT BIKE FOR GLEMSECK 101

FRISCO BAR-HOPPER • WELL, FRISCO IN STYLE ANY WAY. CHRIS CUDDIHY SPILLS THE BEANS ON BUILDING HIS FIRST HARDTAIL CHOPPER

Kompressor Kustom • WITH A SIEBENROCK BIG BORE KIT AND SUPERCHARGER, BEN NORTON’S BMW PACKS A LOT MORE PUNCH THAN MOST STREET TRACKERS

BROOKLYN’S TON-UP DAYS • NEW YORK ONCE HAD A THRIVING CAFE RACING CULTURE CENTRED AROUND ONE WORKSHOP : WORKS ENGINEERING

Head spinner • TRIUMPH USA SETS DUSTIN KOTT ON A PATH TO REVERSE ENGINEER THE TRIUMPH TWIN – WELL, SORT OF…

COMBAT READY • SEB KUSTOM CREATES A LOW-FLYING OLD SCHOOL KAWASAKI CAFF

SIMPLE EVENTIES PORTSTER • A CHANCE MEET WITH A CUSTOM FAN PERSUADED IAN PALMER TO BUILD THIS COOL IRONHEAD BAR-HOPPER

CX appeal • PICKING A HONDA CX500 AS YOUR FIRST BUILD IS AMBITIOUS. HARRY BLAISE FRYER HAD NO FEAR THOUGH…

DIRT DOMINATOR • DAVE BAKER USED THE LOCKDOWNS TO BUILD HIS FIRST CUSTOM –A HONDA DOMINATOR WITH A PRE-65 SCRAMBLER LOOK

ROAD WORTHY • THIS ’77 HONDA CB550K3 WAS ON ITS LAST LEGS UNTIL SIDE ROCK CYCLES HAULED IT BACK FROM THE DARK SIDE

CHIEF FOR THE BEAST • BIKE BUILDING LEGEND GO TAK AMINE CREATES A BR AT STYLE INDIAN CHIEF FOR X-MEN STAR NICHOLAS HOULT

COX & KEINO CHIEF • TWO OF AMERICA’S LEADING CUSTOM BUILDERS COLLABOR ATE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 15 YEARS AND CREATE A SWEET NEW CHIEF

TOUR YELLOW • HARD NINE CHOPPERS HONOUR MICHAEL JORDAN’S PASSION FOR MOTORSPORT BY BASING THEIR FTR BUILD ON A PAIR OF TRAINERS

NO REGRETS • CAN THE WORLD’S BEST TATTOO ARTISTS PAINT BIKES? INDIAN’S LATEST COMPETITION AIMS TO FIND OUT

SUPER RETRO • CAFEINA GIVE AN OLD CB750 SUPER SPORT THE RESTO -MOD TREATMENT

CULT OF THE CUB • HONDA’S 100 MILLION-SELLING STEP-THRU HAS SPAWNED A CUSTOMISING CRAZE. HERE’S ONE FROM THE UK WITH A DT250 MOTOR

BACK TO THE FUTURE • THE 2022 GOLD STAR 650 IS THE ONE ON THE RIGHT. COULD THIS MODERN CLASSIC BE A HIT WITH CUSTOMISERS LIKE THE ENFIELD TWINS?

“OUR NEW BSA MODELS HAD TO BE HONEST” • ASHISH JOSHI TELLS BUILT WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE REJUVENATED COMPANY

“IT WAS UP TO US TO PICK UP WHERE BSA LEFT OFF” • THE NEW GOLD STAR WAS DESIGNED BY BRIT BAL GHATAORE. HE TELLS BUILT HOW HE DID IT

BLACK ISLE BM • ALAN ROURKE TAPS INTO A WEALTH OF LOCAL CUSTOM BIKE BUSINESSES TO CREATE HIS SHARP STREET SCRAMBLER

SANZOKU • MOTOMILO TAKE AN AGEING AND UNLOVED SUZUKI GSF1200 AND CREATE A CUSTOM CLASSIC WORTHY OF THE BANDIT’S NAME AND REPUTATION

Starship Trooper • THE FORCE IS WITH AMSTERDAM-BASED IRONWOOD MOTORCYCLES AS THEY TAKE A METEOR TO THE DARK SIDE

Mosquito • IT’S AN MZ LIKE NO OTHER: PANIGALE SHOCK, FIREBLADE FORKS, AND A FULL -ON RACE EXHAUST. NOT BAD FOR A FIVE MINUTE PUB IDEA …