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Outlier’s Guild Motorcycle Show Brings the Sexy to DTLA

The OG Show once again lines one of downtown LA’s graffiti-adorned buildings with an impressive variety of custom motorcycles.

Outlier’s Guild Motorcycle Show Brings the Sexy to DTLA

Los Angeles' biggest customs show returns for a second year, this time boasting an even more impressive collection of bespoke builds from a wide range of shops

For the second year in a row, Los Angeles played host to the Outlier’s Guild Motorcycle Show, celebrating the region’s increasingly prevalent customs scene. Like last year, the OG Moto Show, was held in downtown LA at in a sprawling multi-building layout, which was brimming with a diverse variety of one-off two-wheelers from world class customs shops, backyard builders, and everything in between.

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While many of the bikes at the second annual OG Show came from Southern California-based builders, there were a quite a few machines from out-of-state shops, and event organizers did a superb job of filling out the show with a heterogeneous collection of bikes. The OG Show boasted a fairly even number of cafe-racers, bobbers, vintage examples, choppers, scramblers, flat trackers, and quite a few bikes that don’t fit squarely into any one particular genre, class, or category of motorcycle. In addition to the massive bespoke motorcycle spread, the OG Show also included a myriad of vendors and booths, and some cool motorcycle-related art and photography.

Several corners of the venue were divided into a particular genre or theme of bike
The small-wheeled section included some really badass little custom bikes
Fernando Cruz’s Yamaha XS750 Neo Cafe Racer

 

This custom Yamaha RZ350RR was one of several bespoke old-school racers at the second annual OG Moto Show
Skateboard icon Steve Caballero brought two of his Denton Moto-built customs out to the second OG Show

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Steve Caballero's Honda CB cafe racer from Texas's Denton Moto Collective

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Hutchbilt's 1979 BMW R80 sports beautiful details like its exhaust, rear-sets, cockpit, etc
The ridiculously clean, internally routed everything on Hutchbilt's 1979 BMW R80 cafe racer
Our buddy Max Hazan's Aniket Vardhan-built engine powered Musket II was on display at the second OG Moto Show
This vintage Bultaco cafe racer sported an interesting mix of old and new components
This vintage single-cylinder scoot was one of many bikes from the second OG Show that don't really fit into a set category

 

Droog Moto's
This little Honda scrambuild demonstrates the less-is-more approach
This antique-inspired custom boasted a lot of board tracker influence

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The collection of customs poured out into the space behind the building

Top Five Bikes of the Second Annual Outlier's Guild Motorcycle Show

At number five we have the Suicide Machine Company's turbo-charged 2001 Harley sportster build
For the number three spot we have this super trick Harley custom, featuring a one-off frame married to a single-sided swing-arm, Ohlins suspension, custom exhaust, Brembo brakes, some carbon bits, and a lot more
My number two pick goes to JSK Moto Co's wildly unique 1997 Yamaha GTS1000 build entitled
My favorite bike from the show was probably Deus' Michael

 

Photos by Tim Huber

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