Your complete guide to cafe racer motorcycles, from classic bikes to modern-day specials.
Here you’ll find everything from traditional Honda and Triumph cafe racers to the latest Ducatis, Yamahas and Moto Guzzis from new wave builders. Discover the parts, seats and performance upgrades that’ll take your own cafe racer bike to the next level.
With clean lines and timeless styling, the Honda CB500 Four is one of the most fetching machines the Japanese marque has ever produced. If you had one on the bench, you might be tempted to restore rather than modify it. Unless it’s already been converted into a hideous chopper—in which case, all bets are off…
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Triumph’s previous generation air-cooled modern classics are true sleepers, with stacks of potential waiting to be unlocked. Pick up a neat secondhand model, throw the right mods at it, and you’ll soon be giving newer machines a run for their money. That’s exactly what France’s FCR Original have done here. Starting with a 2015-model Triumph…
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Quality over quantity this week, with four rather than five new builds: two Beemers, and two Triumphs. All are surprisingly practical, finely finished, and eminently rideable—and we’d happily put any one in the EXIF garage.
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We’d love a glimpse inside Max Hazan’s head. His machines are elegant and visceral, and we’re left wondering how he actually builds these functional sculptures. But what’s really mind blowing, is that he usually makes them up as he goes along. The latest Hazan Motorworks creation has the lines of an Italian sportbike, classic race…
Read more »For some people, building custom bikes is a sideline—an after-hours escape from the daily grind. For others it’s purely a business, with…
Read more »Based in Taipei City in northern Taiwan, 2LOUD Custom is a small workshop run by Ma ‘Max’ Yicheng. Despite emerging onto the…
Read more »There’s no denying the BMW R nineT’s hit status. It’s fun to ride, comes in six great flavors, and lends itself well…
Read more »If you want to earn a living in the custom business, scale is everything. Reinventing the wheel with every build will be…
Read more »Most custom enthusiasts refine and tinker with their bikes. Sometimes it’s to keep them in line with changing tastes and styles. Sometimes…
Read more »A brutal new Kawasaki restomod from AC Sanctuary, a Crocker Small Tank about to go under the hammer, and a slick Krämer…
Read more »The Ducati Monster is one of the best-selling motorcycles in Europe. It’s been around for over a quarter of a century, and…
Read more »At some point in their career, every good custom motorcycle builder sees a client point at a bike in their portfolio and…
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