What a year it?s been for the custom scene. With so many great bikes crossing our radar, it?s almost impossible to pick out any personal favorites.
So it?s just as well that our annual Bike Of The Year roundup is purely data driven. It?s based on page views, incoming links, and the number of social media shares. As always, it?s also weighted according to how long ago the bike was featured.
A couple of interesting points to note: If we weren?t dealing with customs here, two factory bikes would have made it into this list: the Indian FTR 1200 and the Husqvarna Vitpilen. Interest in these machines, which look as good as many ?full customs,? is intense amongst our readers.
The café racer style, so dominant five years ago, has drifted back into the genre soup. Only one CB café racer made it into our list this year. Flippant categorization in general has dwindled away: we?re seeing more and more bikes that can?t be pigeonholed, and the rise of the tasteful restomod. And that?s fine by us?especially if it means we can say goodbye to ridiculous terms like ?brat tracker.? (Or indeed ?Ducati Scrambler Café Racer.?)
So here are the ten bikes that revved up our servers and social media channels in 2018. Enjoy.

10. Honda CB750 by Caffeine Custom Just as we were thinking the days of the classic CB café racer were over, along comes this low-slung CB750 from Brazil. Caffeine Custom is run by a couple of friends from a shed in the mountains, but the clue is in their backgrounds: on...