Written by Tim Huber.
Building custom motorcycles allows for an immense amount of creativity and self-expression, though with so many new builds appearing each week, it?s become increasingly difficult to produce something that?s truly unique, thereby greatly mitigating the individuality aspect. When a concept has been employed by countless customs shops, the style becomes less representative of the builder and their tastes and preferences, and is hard to view as anything other than just more of the same. And it was this desire to create something thoroughly different that served as the core ethos behind the latest two-wheeled work from the Netherland?s Beekhof Motorcycle Builds.

Founded in 2016, the Dutch customs outfit is headed up by Boaz Beekhof, who, after cutting his teeth in his teen years customizing and tuning mopeds, moved on to churning out full-size custom motorcycles under the Beekhof Moto Builds banner. ?After building some custom choppers and bobbers, I wanted to make something different, so I bought a cheap Yamaha XV750 to start with. I honestly, hadn?t done much research into the model, but when looking around online I came across a shit-load of cafe?d XV?s, leading me to take things in a more novel direction.? Boaz tells us. 
Wanting something more modern that would be unique and super clean, while still offering solid performance, Boaz ultimately settled on a cafe fighter. Though, with a relatively small budget and limited access to tools and equipment...