The German scooter specialist SIP Scootershop has built a bonkers custom Vespa to celebrate three decades of business. On the other side of the world, K-Speed has turned the new Triumph Speed 400 into a svelte café racer, while a pro fabricator from down under has built a retina-searing Sportster chopper. We conclude the weekend’s proceedings with news of the 2025 KTM 1390 Super Adventure S EVO.

Vespa ‘Tribute’ by SIP Scootershop Spend five minutes anywhere in Europe or Asia and you will realize that it?s scooters?not motorcycles?that rule the roost. They are incredibly convenient, cheap to buy, cheap to run, and easy to ride. We have a few scoot-curious members on the Bike EXIF team, so it?s about time we featured another sexy step-through. This custom Vespa comes from SIP Scootershop, which has been supplying myriad scooter parts to the world for over 30 years. Based in Germany, the team has been hard at work on a 30th birthday present to themselves; the Vespa ‘Tribute.’

When ideas were being thrown around the SIP Scootershop office, co-founders Alex and Ralf originally set about shoehorning a larger engine into a small-frame Vespa. But thanks to the limitless options available to the team, they thought it would be better to just punch out the smaller Vespa Sprint engine from 150 cc to 260 cc. (That’s almost the same capacity as the engine in the larger Vespa GTS 300.)
They went to town on the engine (inside and out), finishing i...