Roaring into 2017: a reborn Suzuki T500 Titan cafe racer, a naked Ducati Panigale, and Christini’s new snow bike?complete with tracks front and back. We’d happily put all of them in our garage.

Ducati 899 Panigale by Benjie?s Café Racer It?s a slightly less dangerous weapon than its bigger brother, but in capable hands the Ducati 899 Panigale is still as sharp as a scalpel. Hitting the track can be a tricky proposition, so the lads at BCR decided to go with a more upright route for this former weekend warrior.
Beaten but not broken, the middleweight Duc was quickly parted from its scarred plastics. That meant designing and fabricating multiple enclosures to reroute spaghetti, and conceal what was previously hidden by the stock bodywork. To go with the new naked aesthetic, the low-slung clip-ons were swapped for a set of MX bars clamped by a custom triple tree. Up front the newly fab?d fork gaiters give the bike some serious shoulders, and a single ?daymaker? style headlight finishes things nicely. The look is arguably on-point and had Bologna gone closer to this route with their Streetfighter, it?d undoubtedly still be around. [More]
Suzuki T500 by Steve Baugrud With an ability to run the ton (somewhat under the radar), the Suzuki T500 Titan remains a high water mark for big-bore, two-stroke engineering. Its excellent road manners and low-end grunt helped the oil burner snag victories in the 500cc class on the Isle of Man. Twice.
With a relatively cheap ...