Custom bike show season is in full swing. Austin’s Handbuilt Show and Portland’s One Moto Show recently went down Stateside, the Bike Shed Show is going down in London as we speak, and there’s a Los Angeles running of the Handbuilt Show happening in July. Wedged in between them is a brand new fixture on the custom moto calendar; the Moto Craft Show in Toronto, Canada.
Less than two weeks away, the inaugural Moto Craft Show takes place from June 7 until June 9, in the Queen Elizabeth Building?a 63,000-square-foot exhibition space in Toronto. Visitors will have a carefully curated selection of around 100 motorcycles to ogle throughout the weekend, with a 50-50 mix of vintage and custom machines. Most notably, a quarter of the machines on show are being shipped over from the prestigious Haas Motorcycle Museum in Dallas, Texas.
Before his untimely death in 2021, Bobby Haas, who had previously found success as an investor and then a National Geographic photographer, had made a name for himself as not only a discerning collector of custom motorcycles, but as a true patron of the art. The Haas Museum houses an impressive collection of mind-bending creations?many of which Bobby had a direct hand in financing.
The contingent of Haas bikes coming to the Moto Craft Show includes multiple hits from Max Hazan, Cristian Sosa, Jay Donovan, Craig Rodsmith, Origin8or, GT Moto, Chabott Engineering, Mark Atkinson, and more. We’ve cherry-picked just five stunning cu...