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Rejetting carbs can be a real hassle. In this post I’ll explain the process of rejetting your carburetors in 3 simple steps: Main adjustment (main jets) Fine adjustment (gas needle + air adjustment) Stationary adjustment (air screw / fuel screw) Before you start A carburetor has a lot of parts in it [...]

Cool! You’re looking for a café racer building plan? Want to start with your café racer project or maybe you’ve already started? Off course you don’t want your project to end up as an “unfinished project” on a classifieds website… It may be a little cliché but remember: if you’re failing [...]

Guest post by Jason from Caferacerforsale.com Buying a Café Racer with absolutely no Clue where to Start –Comprehensive Guide In the hot summer sun it is more than impossible to look composed and cool in a car. You will be longing for the wind to glide over your face just to [...]

A modern cafe racer is the solution for those who can’t/won’t build there own cafe racer or just don’t want to have the maintenance of an old bike. Building your own bike is awesome, but also requires a lot of time, effort, skills, knowledge, space etc. Since the scene for cafe [...]

Yes, we also like LISTS! Especially when it comes to café racer bikes. So here’s a list of the 17 best café racer bikes you can grab for building a café racer. Please note: this is a list of vintage motorcycles, because we like the old timers best: All Honda CB-series from [...]

Stuck in the middle? Check out my Café Racer Building Plan! Building a café racer means that you strip your bike down to only the necessary functions. The stock wiring harness is one of the things you want to strip down to a minimum. If you take a look at your [...]

A café racer project all starts with one simple question: which bike should I use as a donor / base motor? In this post we list some of the most popular models which are very suitable to turn into a café racer and are affordable for the most of us. Classic icons [...]

Most mainstream types of custom bikes have a few spin-offs – when builders pick-up the baton and run in a slightly different direction, but here we have two main channels for the Tracker motorcycle. First, and certainly the most prolific, is the Flat Tracker and secondly, if slightly more obscure on [...]

The Scrambler motorcycle is a type of bike which isn’t easy to place in a box. So, to give the scrambler bike a clear explanation isn’t easy either. But one thing is for sure – it’s a bike built for off-road and street use. The term “scrambler” has been in common [...]

Just like a Café Racer or Scrambler, the definition of a Bratstyle motorcycle is not a complicated one. And as with a café racer, the bike is stripped down to its bare essentials but with a different styling. The biggest difference being, that a bratstyle motorcycle has a higher steer and [...]

A Cafe Racer motorcycle is a customized motorcycle based on an existing model or one that has been specifically built from scratch to mirror the style and feel. The goal is to make the bike more lightweight, stripping the bike down to its bare essentials, to give it better handling and [...]

BMW Cafe Racer is one of the most sought-after custom motorcycles. Google it and you’ll find tons of results. Since the custom bike scene got his big revival,  the BMW R-series or “Airheads” are one of the most popular base bikes for cafe racers. And that’s for multiple reasons. They’re extremely reliable, [...]

Guest post by Tom from Purpose Built Moto Wiring your bike after customizing it can often be the most daunting part. If you’re a true DIY’er you won’t let anyone else do it either. So what are you to do? You’re going to have to learn a few things. I recommend checking [...]

You’ve read that right: no build thread, building tips, bike photos. No. I thought it was time to write a cool article about the essence of motorcycles: riding them. Enjoying freedom. We all know the Route 66 or Highway 1 route in the US or the Oxley in Australia. And we [...]