Motorcycle Art by Bike Style
Every bike style has its own line. The cafe racer reads as a gesture, the bobber as a silhouette, the adventure bike as a plan. Pick the style you ride, and each page covers what that shape looks like as art and how a photo of yours would come out.
Which motorcycle style are you?
Five quick questions. Answer for how you really ride, not the bike you wish you had.
These pages are organised by style, not by manufacturer. That was deliberate. Two riders on the same model can want completely different pictures, because they've built and ridden it differently. A roadster run as a stripped-back cafe racer wants the single-line ink treatment. The same base bike built as a bobber wants a low, heavy silhouette instead. Match the art to how the bike is put together, not to the badge on the tank, and it lands.
Where the style names come from
Nobody official, is the short answer. There's no standards body for motorcycle styles, so every name on this page is a word the sport settled between itself. The types of motorcycle page goes into that properly, including the one categorisation UK law does make, which is by power rather than by shape. Read it if you want to place a rider's machine before choosing a picture of it.
Ten styles, one process
The mechanism is the same on every one of them. Send one photo of the bike through the Paint Shop, choose a style, and the preview is free and watermarked so you can judge it before spending anything. The photo guide covers the two minutes before you press the shutter, which matter more than the camera does. Where a style has original artwork of its own in the collection, the page says so and links it.
Keep reading
- Next Cafe racer
If you had to draw a motorcycle from memory, it'd probably come out as a cafe racer. Clip-ons, a long tank, a humped single seat and nothing it doesn't need. The shape reads as a gesture, which is exactly why it suits ink.
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