Cafe Racer

A near perfect Honda GL500 café racer, an even brutal as rare Benelli streetfighter, a cool concept bike from Honda, a sexy BMW R80 from Holland, another BMW café racer based on a R100 and as a bonus something very special based on a Belgian FN (a bike which I actually own!). [...]

It’s always cool to see great build from your own country and with a constantly growing scene, there is a lot of cool stuff coming from Holland. This bike is from Moto Adonis and based on a ’79 BMW R100RS. This awesome BWM R100RS is not a typical café racer, scrambler [...]

As you maybe know; the custom motorcycle scene is growing and growing. There are tons of professional builders and a whole lot more yard builders around the globe (all, which I’m trying to display here ;)). But next to all these custom builds, motorcycle manufacturers are also answering on this huge [...]

The Honda CB750 is also known as the worlds first superbike. It’s first version came out in 1969 and Honda released tons of models up to 2003. This beautiful creation is the Ad Hoc #15, based on a 1995 Honda CB750 SF. David Gonzalez, owner of Ad Hoc, started in 2012 and this [...]

November 2015 we got surprised by an amazing conceptbike of Husqvarna; the 701 Vitpilen. An incredibly cool, out of the box design, as a result of the successful launch of the smaller 401 Vitpilen. The 701 Vitpilen recently won the IF Design Award 2016. An award that recognizes (overall) outstanding design [...]

Found a great Yamaha XV750 Virago Café Racer by VTR Customs. This is one of the builds they’ve displayed at Swiss Moto 2016. I really like what these guys are doing, remember the awesome BMW R NineT we’ve featured earlier.  

The “Motorbeurs Utrecht” is the general motorcycle show of the Netherlands and always worth a visit. I was exited to see the new Yamaha XSR900 and the new Triumph classic line, especially the Thruxton R, but it was also great to see some of the builds back that got featured here. This [...]

With the Yamaha Yard Build program, the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer is aiming his arrows at the booming custom motorcycle scene. The program seeks for inspirational ideas on how to transform modern Yamaha bikes to something “special”. It’s “Faster Sons” philosophy, where modern bikes are inspired by there ancestors gave us the already [...]

Donny Ariyanto from Studio Motor is a well known custom motorcycle builder in Indonesia and he’s getting more and more exposure in the rest of the world. But if you become more noticed, you’ll have to come up with more cool custom bikes. So Donny is spending a lot of hours in [...]

A lot of us started our 2-wheel hobby on a loud, smelly and smokey 2-stroke (I certainly did!). Too bad that youngsters here in Holland are more and more skipping this cool phase. Due to the fact that they can start with (car) driving lessons on the age of 16. It’s also [...]

Grzegorz Korczak from Poland is the owner of Unikat and he builds custom motorcycles on behalf of his customers. The owner of this Honda CB550, Pascal, a Frenchmen who now lives in Poland, had a clear description: build me a café racer and use some of the leather of an old Mercedes SL300. [...]

If I think of a Kawasaki ER6N, the first thing that pops up in my mind is “driving lessons”. Second is “entry level”. But what the heck: why not use is as a base for a modern café racer? That’s what the guys from Smoked Garage Customs must have thought. So [...]

Yamaha has a long history of building powerful sport bikes. Back in 1978, when the XS1100 was introduced (also called XS Eleven or XS11), it was the most powerful and largest displacement Japanese motorcycle on the market with an amazing 95hp, which is transferred to the rear wheel trough a shaft drive. [...]

$350 dollar for the base bike, or better: frame. And parts from 9 other bikes to create this cool custom Honda CX500. Josh Deardorff always dreamed of his own café racer, so he decided to build one. No experience at all, but almost everything is done by himself. Last year Josh [...]

CX500 Café Racer by Sacha Lakic Unless the fact that we’ve chosen Sacha Lakic’s Honda CX500 Café Racer as the most beautiful custom motorcycle of 2015, and the fact that we’ve seen a lot of cool custom CX500’s last year, it’s been a while since we’ve posted one. Luckily we did not [...]