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Ruckus – Tokyo Extreme

22. March 2009

Check out some more amazing work from the TokyoParts crew. No holds barred!

Imagine if you will… BMW returning to the scooter market

4. February 2009

Here’s a very detailed rendering from our old friend Oberdan Bezzi . He’s charmed us before with his dreamy designs, he had recently done work for Massimo Tartarini (Italjet) and now it looks like he’s got his sights set on BMW with what he is calling the SCT800. This “what-if” design uses a twin cylinder, 4 […]

Pimp my Beluga

4. February 2009

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The Yamaha Beluga or as we call it in the USA, the Riva, is a modest beast… quite flashy during its 80′s heyday, but considered by some to be just flat out ugly today. It’s not often that you see someone take the time to gussy up their Riva to make it a real eye […]

Leave it to Malaysia – The Vespa Trailer

28. January 2009

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Here’s a cool shot from Satu Lagi’s Flickr collection. If you’ve ever kept tabs on the Malaysian mod scene you’d know this is pretty mild (and tastefully done). They’ve got some crazy mods out that way. I think they are responsible for the rolled back legshield look (ick). Thank’s for sharing! You can click the […]

Wooden Vespa = Pure genius

21. January 2009

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This came to me from my wife while I was on the road, then over the course of the next 24 hours I received a flood of emails, IMs, text messages, and twits telling me to check out this wooden Vespa. I finally got to see it this morning and now I see what all […]

Indonesia does lowriders – The Yamaha Mio "Naughty Bike"

6. January 2009

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Can you believe THIS came from this: That’s one funky transformation. Ardi Kupret has put the moves on this previously tame little scooter from Yamaha. The Google translation isn’t all that great, but from what I could understand it looks like Ardi was going for an American styled low-rider. He calls it the Naughty Bike; […]