Polish Perfection Somewhere inside an industrial railway building in Warsaw, there’s a garage that turns dreams into reality. Christian Boosen, the man behind 86 Gear Motorcycles, is specialised in building café racers, street trackers, brats, scramblers, you name it. So when a customer walked in to ask for a period correct […]

Dakar Legend In the past 5 years we have only covered builds that were based on a Yamaha XT. Far too little if you ask us. It is one of Yamaha’s biggest success stories and an absolute Paris-Dakar legend. Yamaha introduced the first XT, the XT500, in 1976 with a 500cc […]

It was a first for the BikeBrewers team. As a concerted effort four members tested a great variety of Rusty Stitches gear and gave our honest and unadulterated opinion. Pictures paint a 1000 words and video does the rest. We decided to go Full Monty on this one with ‘both unboxing and review videos. Don’t watch those, we're awful at video's!

    The new Royal Enfield HNTR350, aiming to win over a younger audience With this model, Royal Enfield tries to make motorcycling and commuting by motorcycle accessible and attractive to a younger audience. Think new riders, students, young working professionals, perhaps even as a second, lighter motorcycle. The lines remind […]

Some time ago we received a care package from Rusty Stitches. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, we suggest you start reading this first. The now Dutch band of misfits is working hard to make a name for themselves in the custom and urban motorcycle riding gear […]

Ready. Set. SCRAM! I had some time, I just wanted to ride. No frills, no haste, no frustration. And then I got the email. ‘We still have the Scram for you to ride and review if you like?’ And that was it. As you can imagine, this isn’t a powerhouse. It […]

Gear Up! When it comes to motorcycle gear, we have a pretty good idea of what works, and what doesn’t. It really helps that our entire editorial team are petrol-heads of the highest order. This also means that we test out gear to the absolute limit. But sometimes, you want something […]

While Northern European countries were being terrorized by the winter storm ‘Eunice’, a group of motorcycle journalists from the Netherlands, Belgium and France were whisking around in the sun and 20° degrees Celsius.

Superlative To top off three consecutive weeks of riding big (or should I say GIANT?) bikes I was offered the opportunity to test the 2021 Triumph Rocket 3R for a full seven days. And what a week it turned out to be! The prelude to this week was composed by the […]

Dressed to stay alive We all have our preferences when it comes to dressing up for a ride. What you wear depends on a variety of parameters dictating the outcome. ‘Full on’ motorcycle gear will serve the best protection against weather conditions and when gravitational forces cause you to involuntarily part […]

The Ducati Panthah Let’s first rewind to the year 1976. When Ducati’s 350 cc and 500 cc parallel twins could hardly be called a marketing success, their fabulous engineer Fabio Taglioni set tout to develop a replacement. The Pantah 500 originates from the last of the GP500 racers of 1973. The […]

Mokum* Moto Depot’s Mission: Make Ownership Easy Recently BikeBrewers’ editor Ron Betist interviewed our buddy Dan (Nubbs) Sugrue about his plans to create a much needed space for motorcyclists and likeminded people. But before we go into that first a little bit of history from Ron’s perspective. Birth of the Amsterdam […]

Madrid to Barcelona Last winter, I set out on a road trip for work cutting through Spain. If you have to travel and you work for BikeBrewers, what else can you do than ‘always ride in style’? Departing from rainy Madrid and headed for sunny Barcelona, followed by even sunnier Valencia […]

From Amsterdam to Madrid Several years ago, I rode across Europe on a modified Triumph Bonneville T100 while moving from Amsterdam to Madrid. Shortly after my arrival, I discovered a ‘just opened’ local motor shop called ‘Irons Café Racer’ ran by Miguel and his wife Natalia. Their little helper being an […]

After a personal riding experience a while back, two members of the MotoShedcrew decided they wanted to sink their teeth into an Indian Scout Sixty and rebuild it according to their own personal taste. Nothing wrong with that taste we say. The guys created stunning bike! A key element to this […]