Your complete guide to BMW cafe racer motorcycles, from classic bikes like the R80 to modern-day specials. Here you’ll find everything from traditional airhead cafe racers to the latest builds based on newer models. Discover the parts, seats and performance upgrades that’ll take your own BMW to the next level.
A few years ago, building a cafe racer usually meant imbuing it with a sense of nostalgia. But these days, the custom scene is just as much about modernizing older motorcycles. So we’re seeing more and more builds that combine sharp lines and a sense of minimalism, with performance upgrades matched to ‘neo-retro’ looks. This…
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Eastern Spirit Garage is probably Poland’s premier custom workshop. But they focus on quality over quantity, with fewer than a dozen builds over the last seven years. Shop boss Sylwester has picked up the pace a little recently, though. Three months ago he revealed an amazing XS650 bobber, and he’s now just thrown the wraps…
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We’ve gone global this week, with a brutal BMW K100RS from Poland, a Triumph Scrambler with a desert sled vibe from Italy, a Honda Elsinore with CR250R power from the US, and a classy BMW R80 from Portugal.
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Ever heard of analysis paralysis? It happens when you’ve got so many ideas, your project stalls because you can’t make your mind up. Tomoyuki Soeda at Deus Ex Machina‘s Japanese outpost had a dose of it when he designed this R100RS—but then he hatched a plan to overcome it. Soeda-san managed to distill his ideas…
Read more »Like many things from the early 90s, the BMW R100R suffers from an identity crisis. BMW released it as a sort of…
Read more »A new limited production BMW R NineT from Germany, a slammed Sportster built by two of Jakarta’s top custom shops, and a…
Read more »There’s a special place in the custom motorcycle scene for motorcycles that eschew practicality, in order to push boundaries. This BMW R…
Read more »A very slick BMW K100 from Lithuania, a funky Honda Monkey from California, and a Harley-Davidson sidecar rig built in Poland—up for…
Read more »There are pros and cons to picking a K-Series BMW as a custom donor. On the up side, Ks are more readily…
Read more »The BMW that took home the Best In Show award at Verona’s Motor Bike Expo, plus a Kenny Roberts-inspired XS650 from Japan…
Read more »In the lore of motorcycle racing, Battle of The Twins has few equals. First staged in the US at Daytona in 1981,…
Read more »We don’t see much custom work from the Baltic state of Lithuania. But judging by what we have seen, we suspect that…
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