A pause on motorcycle shows has been one of the many disappointments of the COVID-19 pandemic. But rather than sulk, the organizers of Indonesia’s Sekepal Aspal custom show took the event online for the second time in a row this year.
Officially titled the Sekepal Aspal Indonesia Motoart Exhibition (or SAIME), the nine-year-old show is one of the biggest fixtures on the Indonesian custom scene. This year, SAIME offered up the goods via a specially-designed website that included hand-picked custom motorcycles, art, and live-streamed music acts. We’re big fans of the Indonesian scene’s creativity and ingenuity?so we took a peak inside, and rounded up our favorites.

Yamaha XS650 by Flying Piston Garage This gleaming Yamaha XS650 is a friendly reminder that the Indonesian scene can build choppers with the best of them. It’s the work of Flying Piston Garage in Bandung, and it’s loaded with handcrafted parts. The build’s powered by a freshened up 1979 XS650 motor, complete with custom velocity stacks and straight-through pipes.

The motor’s wedged into a handmade hardtail frame, with a springer front end handling suspension duties. There’s no brake on the 21? front wheel, but the 18? rear uses the stock XS650 drum brake.
The XS650’s bodywork has been scalped from all over. The fuel tank’s off an old German-made moped, while the rear fender’s old British stock. Flying Piston also made the foot controls, and the...