The best cafe racer motorcycles

Monza: WalzWerk’s best BMW cafe racer yet?

Most custom builders are low-volume guys. It’s often a sideline to a day job, or part of a wider operation selling parts.…

Despite the fact that motorcycles seem to keep getting bigger, the six-cylinder engine layout has never really caught on. Only a handful…

Even though the Ducati 900 SS is some three decades old, we still see a lot of customs based around the 90°…

For some people, custom motorcycles are just a hobby. But for others, they put food on the table—and that’s when it pays…

A few years ago, building a cafe racer usually meant imbuing it with a sense of nostalgia. But these days, the custom…

Eastern Spirit Garage is probably Poland’s premier custom workshop. But they focus on quality over quantity, with fewer than a dozen builds…

A sleek and sophisticated Thruxton from Massachusetts, a tiny BMW balance bike from the Netherlands, a rare Royal Enfield Interceptor up for…

The year is 1986, and Tom Cruise is playing Maverick in Top Gun—flying an F-14 Tomcat by day and tearing around on…

The Buell X1 gets its turn with the amazingly prolific builders at K-Speed. Plus an impossibly elegant CB550 from Kott Motorcycles, and…

If there’s something missing from Ducati’s current lineup, it’s a modern cafe racer with strong ties to the past. Sure, there’s the…

Arno Overweel builds pretty wild custom motorcycles. He’s not afraid of bolting a turbo onto a Honda CBX1000, for example. But he…

Ever heard of analysis paralysis? It happens when you’ve got so many ideas, your project stalls because you can’t make your mind…