2014 Honda XR650L Enduro – Hill Moto

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New tools customising old bikes. If you had to be blunt about it, that’s probably how you’d surmise the current custom bike scene. You need only to look at the old guard with their thinly veiled cries denigrating the beards and beanies to see that a ‘new tool’ generation has taken over from the old one. But today’s bike flips that equation on its coiffured head. With tools that date back to New York in the 1880s and a bike that’s barely out of diapers, today’s Honda XR650L from Hill Moto, still ticks all the cool custom boxes.

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Hill Hudson was in a philosophical mood when we caught up with him.“I’ve spent the last four years questioning the meaning of life under failing fluorescent lights, in the back of a cinderblock industrial building with no windows. I had no idea I would end up here, working as a metal fabricator or building motorcycles for clients. But when I was in art school a handful of years ago, my Brooklynite Grandfather passed away leaving behind an odd but inspiring legacy.”