The Ride: New Custom Motorcycles and their Builders

It’s about making, transforming, or designing something with your own hands. The motorcycle is back! Similar to the fresh contemporary scene that has established itself around bicycles in the last few years, the motorcycle is currently undergoing an aesthetic rebirth. Following in this historical tradition, The Ride focuses on those who are creating customized motorcycles that come as close to one’s own vision of how pure riding should be as possible. Decked out with state-of-the-art disk brakes, LED lights, gears, and drive components, these machines are more agile, faster, more radical, and therefore more fun than anything produced in the past.The Ride features transformations such as a boring plastic motorcycle made in Japan in the 1990s turned into a slick café racer with an Italian feel, a soulless neo-baroque machine turned into an in-your-fac

Nothing so far compares to wonderful literary effort If your soul is attached to the wings of two wheels with a motor this is the master tome. No other printed work combines the efforts and artistic ability of the builders with the inspired flawless photography. A must have for the hardcore and the newbe biker. Worth twice the price, a true bargin !. "Exceeded my expectation" according to Ljupco. BIKEEXIF is a web site I check almost daily for few years now and I love it from the day one so it was logicalI give this book a try.It fulfills and exceeded my expectations.Very good job done Mr. Chris (and others involved).. The Ride Mitchell Excellent photography and design/layout. Write ups are informative but dont meander. Only real downside I found is the intro from the editor is a bit condescending. Degrades/mocks the chopper/custom scene in the late 90's to mid 2000's. Granted, not my favorite period in motorcycle customizing but it still comes off as a little childish. Other than that a good read and great photography

The Ride features transformations such as a boring plastic motorcycle made in Japan in the 1990s turned into a slick café racer with an Italian feel, a soulless neo-baroque machine turned into an in-your-face scrambler, or an old find from grandpa’s barn turned into a absolutely comfort-free hardtail with the coolest of sounds.. From the Inside Flap The Ride explores motorcycle riding as it is meant to be: as a means of getting around with attitude, as an extension of one’s own body, as an expression of personal freedom, but also as a significant c

It's now the world's most popular showcase of custom bikes, with millions of pageviews every month and a passionate global following. After a twenty-year career as a creative director, Chris Hunter quit the advertising industry to run the motorcycle website Bike EXIF. Hunter has traded the bright lights of London and Sydney for the solitude of rural New Zealand, where the lack of decent broadban