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.
This week’s bikes come in all shapes and sizes. We’ve got a Ducati Scrambler Cafe Racer from Poland, a Suzuki Thunder 125 chopper from Indonesia, and a custom mini-bike from a small Hungarian village. Plus we take a look at BMW Motorrad’s fourth Pure&Crafted show.
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They say if you do what you love, you’ll never work a single day in your life—but they also say never to mix business with pleasure. After a few years in the custom motorcycle industry, Lithuania’s Two Wheels Empire is calling it a day, and switching their business to e-bikes. And this brooding BMW K1100…
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Tom Simpson is a busy man. As the only pair of hands at Foundry Motorcycle, he’s usually in the workshop six days a week, with the next two years of his diary blocked off. So when a project came in with a limited budget and an eight week lead time, he had to change tack.…
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Triumph’s new Speed Triple 1200 RR got the internet fizzing this week, so we’ve added our thoughts. We’ve also stumbled across a cute SYM Wolf custom from Taiwan, a gorgeous Colorado Norton Works Commando on eBay, and a Tonka-tough electric utility bike that’s just gone on sale in the US.
Read more »I’ll admit, my knowledge of vintage Ducatis is rudimentary at best—so I always feel a little out of my depth when talking…
Read more »We’re launching into this week’s round-up with a radically reworked Moto Guzzi Bellagio, and finishing off with a look at the upcoming…
Read more »The phrase ‘renaissance man’ is thrown around too loosely these days, along with ‘legendary’ and ‘iconic.’ But there’s no other way to…
Read more »The Yamaha XJR1300 is a relic from a bygone age, and we say that with a tinge of regret. It’s a big,…
Read more »When a major OEM releases an anniversary edition motorcycle, it’s typically an existing model with a new livery and a numbered plaque.…
Read more »We’ve always had a thing for the machines that roll out of the deBolex Engineering workshop: they’re sleek, fast and exceptionally well…
Read more »There’s never a quiet moment for Tom Gilroy and the team at Purpose Built Moto in Queensland, Australia. Tom started his career…
Read more »Something for everyone this week: The classic perfection of a Moto Guzzi café racer, a stealthy R18 commissioned by BMW, and a…
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