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.

WELCOME to a custom bike world tour

THE GOOD THE BAD & THE HARLEY • WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MEXICAN SPANIARD WITH THE BUG FOR BUILDING FLAT TRACKERS DECIDES HIS DREAM BIKE IS A TWO-STROKE HARLEY?

Kengo tracker

COFFEE RACER • IT TOOK JUST SEVEN DAYS FOR THE GUYS AT JIMMY’S TO TURN THIS 1979 CB650 INTO AN ELECTRIC RACER…

Two minutes to midnight • PIER CITY GET READY TO PRESS THE NUCLEAR BUTTON WITH THEIR LATEST BUILD

WORLD’S FASTEST BOBBER

Death to petrol • THE FUTURE OF MOTORCYCLING IS ELECTRIC – WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT – BUT IS THE FUTURE OF CUSTOM BIKES ELECTRIC TOO?

BOB & BIG BOB • IN THE WORLD OF CUSTOM BIKES AND CRAZY BUILDS, THE ARE FEW WHO HAVEN’T COME ACROSS THE SPECTACLES OF MR MARTINI. HIS LATEST TWO BUILDS ARE JUST AS IMPRESSIVE AS THE FAME PRECEDING THE MAN.

FLASH GORDON • WHEN BEN ROWETT NEEDED TO REDUCE THE STRESS IN HIS LIFE HE BUILT THIS BSA A10 BOBBER – A LABOUR OF LOVE THAT HELPED PUT A SMILE BACK ON HIS FACE

Open, sit, ride, repeat • ONE CX500 + TWO UNHAPPY ITALIANS = RIDEABLE ART

NORTHMAN • AFTER FILLING HIS CV FULL OF CGs, IT WAS TIME FOR JONATHAN HULL TO TURN HIS ATTENTION TO A CB

LAM TO THE SLAUGHTER • ROGUE MOTORCYCLES PROVE THAT CUSTOM BIKES AREN’T JUST FOR PEOPLE WHO’VE BEEN RIDING SINCE NOAH STARTED HIS FIRST BUILD

TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLES • AUTUMN WINTER 2022 MENSWEAR LIFESTYLE COLLECTION

NIGHT FEVER • 50 YEARS AGO THE CRUISING SCENE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ERUPTED IN A BLAZE OF CREATIVITY AND COLOUR. A NEW BOOK BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER WHO SAW IT ALL HAPPEN CELEBRATES THIS ASTONISHING ERA

WELCOME TO THE 101 RUN – NOW ONE OF THE UK’S BEST CHOPPER SHOWS

Autumnal gear and bad ideas

THE ORIGINAL OUTLAW • ANDREW ALMOND IS A DIEHARD MOTORCYCLIST WITH A PENCHANT FOR CULTURAL OBSERVATION. HE REFLECTS ON THE CHANGING FACE OF THE CUSTOM SCENE

BOLT ON • BOLT’S NEW CLOTHING COLLECTION IS OUT NOW. BUILT GETS A SNEAK PREVIEW

TWIST & SHOUT • MALLE GOES INTERNATIONAL AS THE RALLY FOR INAPPROPRIATE BIKES SETS SAIL FOR THE MOUNTAINS

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