Cafe Racer

The Honda CB is and always will be a great base bike for a café racer. Especially the 4 cylinder bikes with the CB750 and CB550 being dominant. Pretty obvious, since these were real sales canons in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. But Honda also produced CB’s with a parallel [...]

2017 still is a cold start with another bike from the end of last year. Here are some pictures of a cool café racer based on a Suzuki GSX400 Inazuma (Japanese version), built by GiaMi Motorcycles from Italy, called “The Return”. PS: Don’t forget to vote for the best custom of 2016! [...]

First of all I want to wish you all the best for 2017 and let us make one simple new years resolution: ride more! I just want to start of with a bike that was built last year (new builds are on their way!). This is a beautiful Honda CB750 called “Bad Seed” [...]

When an e-mail begins with the sentence “I’m not a mechanic” with these pictures attached, I thought I was loosing it. What I see, is a perfected creation of somebody with taste, vision and a set of skills to die for. The e-mail came from Marco Matteucci and he opened up like [...]

This cool BMW RT100, called “Coffee Racer” is built by Georg Trilety from Austria. Georg is a technical illustrator by day and a custom bike builder by night, just like a lot of us here. I always love it when a one-man show finished his creation to show the world. A couple [...]

The Ducati Hypermotard was something out of the box when it was introduced at the 2005 EICMA and instantly won the award for “best of show”. The name Hypermotard really did the job because the bike was offering a combination of a supermotard look and riding position and a serious +1000cc [...]

Sometimes customizing a bike is more than just switching some parts and changing some colors. Sometimes it’s not. But it’s too simple to give this BMW R NineT, built by Mr. Martini from Italy, the tag “easy, thirteen in a dozen”. It’s te combination of parts and colors used, which makes this bike [...]

Since day one I’m a big fan of Jose Rosell’s (a.k.a. “Pepo”) work. Usually Pepo focusses on Ducati’s, but this time he took a ’92 BMW R100R as a base bike for another awesome creation. His goal was to build a real classic racer, stuffed with only the best parts and [...]

When I started with BikeBrewers back in 2015, I never realized that the custom motorcycle scene would become such an interesting world for me. I met a lot of great people around Europe and made new friends. Finding cool builds still is one of the biggest challenges for me, since I [...]

Dealer build off’s seem to be hot lately. Last week we’ve featured a custom Victory Octane as a result of a dealer build off and brands like Ducati and Indian also had their competition among dealers earlier this year. Now it’s time for Triumph to get their dealers building customized versions and they’ve [...]

I’m sorry that I don’t have much to tell about this Honda CB550 Cafe Racer yet, only that it’s build by our friends of NCT Motorcycles and that it got a lot of views, likes and comments on our social media channels. It’s one of those machines that has something special, but it’s [...]

The successful Moto Guzzi V7 series are updated for MY 2017, and are the 3rd real update since the introduction of the “new” Guzzi V7 (the actual V7 is almost 50 years on the market). The V7 Mark III can be summarized as: more power, more technique, more differences between the models. [...]

Usually when I feature a bike from South America it’s a small sized machine (like this cool Yamaha RD135 cafe racer) but today there’s a real beast from Brazil: a Honda CBX750 Cafe Racer, built by a small workshop called Zucconi Projetos. The first thing that stands out are are the main [...]

I have to admit: I’m always a bit proud if a cool custom motorcycle is built in Holland. There is a lot going on in the Dutch scene and it seems that the overall build quality is getting better and better. This machine is built by 14Cycles, a small workshop that emerged [...]

Oh yes! It’s official! Husqvarna confirmed the production models of the 401 Vitpilen and 401 Svartpilen concepts. Bikes that really melted down the internet earlier when Husqvarna revealed the concepts at the EICMA 2015. Owner KTM didn’t gave an exact introduction date yet, but it confirmed that Husqvarna will debut the [...]

This radical machine is built by our friends of NCT Motorcycles (you may remember their cool BMW R100RS Classic Racer) and is based on the legendary Ducati 996. It’s called “Desmofighter 2.0”. No details about the bike, so just some eye candy. But expect are seriously fast machine with a weight (far) [...]