Tracker Articles
Custom: Ride for Kids CBR250 tracker
This Honda CBR250R was built for Ride for Kids by Gregg’s Customs. It’s difficult to pigeonhole the bike since it combines clip-ons with 19-inch flat track wheels and tires, but what it really demonstrates is how nice the little Honda can look shorn of its fairings and complete with a little cosmetic cut and paste. The best part? You could own this for just $5. Photos: Sean Smith Ride for...
12 December 2011
Re-imagining Ockelbo
Tasked with reviving the historic Ockelbo brand as a maker of motorcycles, ATVs and snowmobiles, transportation design students at Sweden’s Umeå Institute of Design came up with these seven concepts. The results are one part KTM, one part Harley and one part pure imagination. Produced between 1962 and 1989, Ockelbo was a Swedish brand of remarkably nicely designed snowmobiles. Like KTM or, f...
27 April 2011
Custom: Deus Ex Machina 225 Scorpio
The Yamaha 225 Scorpio is, rightfully, the kind of bike none of us would look at twice if we passed one on the street. Retailing for around $2,000 in places like India, Indonesia and Thailand, it’s just basic transportation in places where people ride in flip flops and t-shirts because that’s all they own, not because they don’t know better. But look at this bike, it’s absolutely beautiful...
21 April 2011
From MotoGP to the Indy Mile: Roland Sands' Desmo Tracker
Exclusive to Hell For Leather, this render and these photos show what the finished Roland Sands Design Desmo Tracker will look like. If you haven’t heard yet, Roland’s finally lost his marbles, building a flat track racer based on the limited-to-1,500-units, MotoGP-replica, 197bhp Ducati Desmosedici RR. With permission from his doctors, we asked Roland what the hell he was thinking. HFL: What...
06 April 2011
Buell can still kick Harley ass
So this is just a Harley XR1200, right? No. Where that bike weighs 260kg and makes 85bhp this Bott XR-1 will weigh just 170kg and make 100bhp. How’s it do that? Why Buell parts of course. The XR-1 will take its wheels, suspension, brakes, engine and swingarm from a Buell XB12, housing them in a custom steel spine chassis. Looks, like the XR1200, are inspired by Harley XR 750 trackers of yore. ...
07 March 2011
Custom: Cobra RS750 Tracker
As David Edwards said in his letter to Honda about the Cobra RS750 Scrambler, most of the parts you see on these bikes aren’t available and Honda has no plans to make anything like them. The point, then? Cobra wants to encourage people to customize their bikes (and hopefully buy an exhaust or two from them in the process.) We can’t think of any better encouragement than this Cobra RS750 Tracke...
17 December 2010
Cobra turns Honda Shadow RS into proper lemonade
While the 2011 Honda Shadow RS is finally acceptable enough to ride without wearing a brown paper bag, the 45hp Japanese V-twin still verges dangerously close to uncoolness. Working directly with Honda, aftermarket accessories maker Cobra Engineering has released 5 concepts to show the Shadow's potential, 2 of which are knockouts. The CL72-based high-pipe Scrambler and especially the Bubba Shober...
08 September 2010
News
Deus Ex Machina "The Mono" SR542: headed to Hollywood
This Yamaha SR500-based street tracker will be the first Deus Ex Machina custom to make it Stateside. Befitting the flashiness of its new home, the SR542 is running some seriously expensive hardware in the form of one-off Öhlins suspension and many hand-fabricated parts. We love seeing an older bike given a fresh lease on life with a mix of old and up-to-date parts, click through for a full descr...
30 May 2009