Your complete guide to Honda cafe racer motorcycles, from modern-day specials to classic bikes like CB750 cafe racers. Here you’ll find everything from 1970s inline-four CB customs to the latest builds based on newer motorcycles like the CB1100. Discover the parts, seats and performance upgrades that’ll take your own Honda cafe bike to the next level.
This week we’ve got a pair of very different classic Hondas: a CB550 rebuilt in lockdown, and a feisty lil’ NSR50 pocket rocket. Plus a new BMW concept aimed at Gen Z, and a limited production run of custom Ducatis from NCT in Austria. Honestly, we’d take ’em all.
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There’s never a quiet moment for Tom Gilroy and the team at Purpose Built Moto in Queensland, Australia. Tom started his career fixing up old bikes in a shed on the family farm; today he runs a bustling custom business with a prodigious build output, a store full of parts, and he’s even made a…
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Something for everyone this week: The classic perfection of a Moto Guzzi café racer, a stealthy R18 commissioned by BMW, and a slinky CB650R from Honda’s European dealer build-off. Plus a look at BMW’s very, very radical new CE 04.
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When this sleek Honda popped up on our email, it stopped us in our tracks. And then we got an extra surprise—it’s based on a police bike. We just had to find out more. We got talking to builder Irwann Cheng, who intrigued us with his tiny bōsōzoku-style custom a couple of years ago. And…
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Read more »We’re suckers for retro sportbike style. And if it’s married to classic Honda build quality and engineering, you’ve got an intoxicating mix.…
Read more »In stock form, the Honda CL350 is a mild-mannered street scrambler with 33 horsepower and oodles of vintage charm. The kind of…
Read more »Against all odds, the eternally goofy Honda CX500 has become a popular choice for custom projects. But it’s hard to get ‘right,’…
Read more »Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. After all, it’s the foundation of business for brands such as Harley-Davidson and Indian, and model lines…
Read more »The early 80s Honda CB900C is one of the most unusual bikes Honda ever made. It has a ten-speed gearbox: five ‘normal’…
Read more »Fredrik Pål Persson has faced a few challenges in his time. First, he switched careers from chef to bike builder. Then he…
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