Your complete guide to cafe racer motorcycles, from classic bikes to modern-day specials.
Here you’ll find everything from traditional Triumph and Honda cafe racers to the latest BMWs, Ducatis and Yamahas from new wave builders. Discover the cafe racer parts, seats and performance upgrades that’ll take your own cafe racer bike to the next level.
High-end custom motorcycles are a joy to ogle, but owning them is often beyond the reach of us mere mortals. Not everyone has the skill or time to build pinnacle-level custom, nor the money to commission one. The average rider is more likely to see a custom bike they like, and then look at how…
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Since they first hit the scene, Auto Fabrica has flirted with the concept of motorcycles as art pieces. The machines they build often feel like elegant concept bikes, but stop short of being so abstract that they become useless ornaments. This Ducati Scrambler 1100 embodies that philosophy. Labeled ‘T23,’ this is, remarkably, the first Ducati…
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With roughly 2.7 million people living in Brooklyn, New York, the serendipitous tale of this BMW R100R café racer stands out as something truly extraordinary. It all began when Tobias van Schneider—a German multi-disciplinary designer living in Brooklyn—spotted a custom BMW R80 on the street. Enamored, he nabbed a photo of it and sent it…
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The smell of two-stroke oil lingers in the air, courtesy of Roland Sands Design’s razor-sharp custom Yamaha RD400. We also profile a Triumph Bonneville T100 café racer, the new Triumph Rocket 3 Evel Knievel Limited Edition, and a collection of nine Kawasaki Z1R-TC turbos.
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As the founder of Spain’s 72 Cycles Performance, and one-half of the collaborative outfit 72 HKG Performance, Antonio Rodriguez has developed an…
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With its casual bobber styling and easygoing twin-cylinder motor, the Royal Enfield Shotgun 650 isn’t the type of motorcycle you’d expect the…
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Who would be deranged enough to commission a custom café racer with a Harley-Davidson V-Rod as a base? Only Mark ‘FKN’ Hawwa.…
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Known for his classy café racers, Dustin Kott threw the rule book away to build a Triumph Daytona bobber for Born Free.…
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For the last few years, the modern custom motorcycle scene has presented major OEMs with a whole new market in which to…
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The Norton Atlas has always been one of my forever dream bikes. This story started quite a long time ago, with the…
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Diamond Atelier impresses with an uber-slick BMW boxer built for the race track, while Japan’s Infiniti Motorcycle builds a stunning Harley-Davidson bobber.…
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Building a café racer with an older motorcycle usually involves two phases; getting the bike running, and customizing it. And if the…
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