Performance and utility are the words of the week. We kick off with a 1100 cc Kawasaki endurance racer, followed by a farm-built Honda mashup, a street-legal electric utility bike from Cake, and a Ducati Scrambler turned dreamy café racer from Motocrew.

Kawasaki Zephyr 1100 by 72 HKG Performance This Kawasaki café racer project began just like so many before it, with the simple question of ?what else ya got"? Jorge and Antonio, the builders behind the Spanish workshop 72 HKG Performance, had taken a small road trip to pick up a project car, when they found this Kawasaki tucked away in the garage, covered with a blanket of unrealized potential.

The machine that started its life as a Kawasaki Zephyr 1100 was taken to a shop years ago for a full custom transformation?but it never reached a point that the owner was satisfied with. So after purchasing the project car, Jorge and Antonio loaded up both machines and took them home. Picking up someone else?s custom build is rarely easy, but it often begins the same way: by stripping everything off. So the guys got to work undoing, unbolting, and bringing the Zephyr back to its bare bones.

HKG worked with the bike?s owner, going back and forth before deciding on classic endurance racer style for the build, which meant a full fairing. So once the bike was stripped down, the guys fabricated a custom frame to house the bodywork, which would determine the width and remaining lines of the build. All of the hand-formed alumi...