Pandemonium Attachment: F84 Engineering's "Triple Bike"... The earliest motorcycles weren't much more than bicycles with internal combustion engines attached. In fact, William S. Harley's initial idea in 1901 was to motorized a bicycle, and some of the earliest Harley-Davidson prototy| BikeBound
Guinness World Record Holder: "Tinker Toy" by Simon Whitelock... Recently we showcased the 7-cylinder Kawasaki two-stroke built by the UK's Simon Whitelock, who's been building custom motorcycles specials since 1985. He says the Kawasaki Triples Rally is where he caught the bug| BikeBound
The Yamaha RD350 remains one of the most storied two-stroke street bikes of the 1970s. It might not be as a notorious as the widow-making triples of Kawasaki lore, but it was in most respects a better bike. It had similar dimensions as the TZ road racers, handled and braked well for the era, and bec| BikeBound
Kawasaki "KH606" from Simon Whitelock... Unless you've been living under a rock of late, you know the name Allen Millyard -- the tea-drinking retired British Ministry of Defence engineer who builds some of the maddest motorcycles on the planet. Truly, few builders would even contemplate s| BikeBound
120-bhp 1000cc 4-cylinder Widowmaker from Allen Millyard... Introduced in late 1971, the Kawasaki H2 Mach IV 750 was the fastest-accelerating, scariest production machine money could buy. The 748cc air-cooled two-stroke triple-cylinder engine made 74 brake horsepower in factory trim, and drag ra| BikeBound
Bolt Motor Co. builds a 500cc weapon... The Yamaha RD350 is one of the most iconic sporting motorcycles ever produced. The original air-cooled 350cc two-stroke parallel-twin was produced from 1973-1975, and the RD quickly became a darling of club racers around the world. It earned a reputa| BikeBound
350-lb, 100+hp RZV500R from Championship Cycles... In 1984, Yamaha unveiled the world's first two-stroke V4 production motorcycle, the RD500LC -- a 500cc road-going replica of the YZR500 that King Kenny Roberts rode to the 1983 GP World Championship. Known as the RZ500 in Canada and Austra| BikeBound
A Smokin' Two-Stroke Tracker from DubStyle Designs... There are workshops who turn out a kaleidoscopic range of custom bikes, always experimenting with a style or era or make they haven't yet explored, often at the behest of a client. Then there are those lone builders operating out of sm| BikeBound