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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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.
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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Starrider: A CB750K with a street-legal nitrous kit
The CB750 is one of the most customized bikes of the past half-century. But just when we thought we’d seen every possible…
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Building a Honda CBR600F for the road trip of a lifetime
The Honda CBR600F is one of the great bargains in the motorcycling world. It’s fast, reliable, and beautifully engineered—and able to handle…
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A Honda CB350 restomod built by a jet aircraft mechanic
It’s quite rare for a CB cafe racer to land in the Bike EXIF inbox these days. And we politely turn down…
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This CB750 cafe racer roams the capital of Pakistan
There are around 2.5 million motorcycles on the road in Pakistan. Which sounds impressive until you learn that the population is over…
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Little Ripper! K-Speed’s Honda Monkey cafe racer
K-Speed is one of the greatest success stories of the modern custom scene. Like a hit factory from the golden era of…
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The Honda CB500 cafe racer that staved off bankruptcy
Building custom motorcycles can be a tough game. And the Swedish builder Fredrik Pål Persson was ready to throw in the towel,…
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Two Scoops: Federal Moto’s gelato-inspired Honda CX650
Milwaukee’s Mama Tried Show is one of the most eclectic shows on the calendar. Choppers, flat trackers and café racers all vie…
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The modern classic, Honda style: Bolt’s 1995 Seven Fifty
By the time the nineties rolled around, the reputation of the Honda CB750 was losing its luster. The iconic straight four had…
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