Custom Bikes Of The Week: 8 March, 2020
A beastly CB750 from Belgium, a vintage Ducati worth over half a million dollars, a Honda Dominator with geometric bodywork, and an Enfield GT650 from Tasmania.
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Your complete guide to Honda cafe racer motorcycles, from classic bikes like the CB750 to modern-day specials. Here you’ll find everything from traditional CB cafe racers to the latest builds based on newer motorcycles. Discover the parts, seats and performance upgrades that’ll take your own Honda cafe bike to the next level.
‘Friday’: A sharp Honda CB550 from Cardsharper Customs
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a classic Honda CB café racer. The custom scene has splintered and grown a lot over the past few years, and Honda inline fours are no longer ubiquitous. But occasionally a good example of the type pops up, and this example from Poland is very good indeed. The…
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Tokyo Nights: Upgrading the classic Honda CB900F
Unless you can identify a motorcycle just by its engine, you’ll have a hard time pinning down the exact year and model of this muscular Honda four. We’ll clue you in: it’s a 1981 CB900F. But it’s wearing parts from so many different donors, it’s hardly recognizable. Calling it a ‘bitsa’ would be highly unfair…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 2 February, 2020
A beautifully modified Honda Dominator from Spain, a CB1000R commissioned by Honda Italia, a $58,000 Laverda SFC, and news of a collaboration between Zero and Filson.
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Candy Crush: The last CB750 Origin8or will ever build
When Bike EXIF lit a fire under the custom scene ten years ago, Honda CB750 cafe racers showed up everywhere. And there…
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Hot stuff: A Honda CBX 750 built by a firefighter
The annals of motorcycling history are filled with ‘tweeners’—motorcycles that improved upon outgoing models, but eventually fizzled out to make way for…
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Better than new: A TÜV approved CB550 cafe racer
If there’s a style of bike resistant to trends, it’s the classic Honda CB café racer. If you keep it simple, avoid…
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Chopper Rescue: A classic Honda restoration by HB-Custom
With clean lines and timeless styling, the Honda CB500 Four is one of the most fetching machines the Japanese marque has ever…
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Swedish twins: A pair of vintage café racers from PAAL
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…
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Silver Dream Machine: 2LOUD’s Honda CB1100
Based in Taipei City in northern Taiwan, 2LOUD Custom is a small workshop run by Ma ‘Max’ Yicheng. Despite emerging onto the…
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The Misfit: When building a CB750 becomes therapy
Mike LaFountain has been working on vintage motorcycles since he was 17, and he’s a perfectionist. His creations are nut-and-bolt perfect; they…
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Custom Bikes Of The Week: 30 June, 2019
We’ve got an electrifying selection this week, with the debut of the £90,000 Arc Vector and a look at BMW’s surprise Vision…
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