Cool Beans Blog - How-To's and News You Can Use RSS
Dear Custom73: How Do I Customize a Hudson Blue S-2?
Dear Custom73: I have a stock, Hudson blue S2 that I was looking to do some customization to. I was hoping you could help me decided what would look good on that bike. Please keep in mind I’m not overly handy. 😕. Thanks. -Hudson Rider Dear Hudson Rider: Thanks for the email. We obviously have a lot of ideas for how to customize bikes. Most people take their inspiration from classic motorcycle styles. You could make the bike into a street fighter or into a vintage looking bike or into whatever you imagine. It depends on what type of style you want. Go...
Orange You Something Special?
We find a lot of inspiration for our e-bike builds by drooling over custom motorbikes. Here are a few photos of a bad ass BMW R80 built by Nigel Broughton featuring Roth Flake Tropi Cali Orange. This orange is a staple in hot rod garages - and you can use it on your bike or other projects right out of a spray can! Ed “Big Daddy’ Roth Roth was a key figure in Southern California’s kustom kulture and hot-rod movement of the late 1950s and 1960s. In the mid-1960s Roth began customizing motorcycles. Mainstream motorcycle magazines refused to run his articles and ads,...
