Cafe Racer

Beautiful creation of Knuckleupspeedshop this ’74 CB550:        

This is a great example of what Benjie’s cafe racer parts can do with a Honda CB550:     The modifications are minor: Benjie’s tank Benjie’s seat & tail CB200 gauges Buell headlight Clubman bars New rear shocks Painted & polished engine Painted & polished forks Painted frame The result is beautiful!

A beautiful Moto Guzzi Café racer by Moto Nero, Bristol UK:

Israeli Lior Baruch, better knowns as Back On Two or BOT, has brewed this awesome CB350 Café Racer in late 2014. The fact that this project was built in Israel meant that every single part on this machine had to be imported or made by Lior himself. The result is awesome. [...]

Not bad for a first build by Mike Meyers (no, not the one from Austin Powers). Also check out the movie of his first ride. For privacy reasons YouTube needs your permission to be loaded.I Accept

If you want to make a café racer on a budget, this CB750 is a great inspiration. A lot of the original parts are still on the bike and the changes are minor. But when you see this bike you still get a 100% café racer feeling. This is an ideal [...]

A Yamaha Virago has an ankward standard lining, so turning it into a cafe racer takes some courage. Bike brewer Greg Hageman did an outstanding job on this XV750. Front fork is from a 2008 Yamaha R1. Öhlin shocks on the rear, and as you can see, the big v-twin caches [...]

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 [...]

Our very first post starts with a gorgeous bike from top brewer Cognito Moto: the CB550 Café Racer. It’s maybe not new on the web (the bike was build in 2013), but it’s still one of the better cafe racer build of the Honda CB550. Certainly one of our favorite designs. [...]

UPDATE: due to the huge success of Sacha’s CX500 Café Racer, they’ve decided to build a small number of limited “copies” of this awesome bike. Under the label of Blacktrack Motors Sacha and his team are building 25 copies of the so called BT-01 and offer 2 models: 5 Race Editions and 20 Sport Editions. [...]

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It all started in 1992, when BMW developed the R1100RS which developed 90hp and 95 Nm of torque. The engine was a 1085cc air-cooled boxer with a top speed of 218 kph for 239 kg. It was a half-faired naked machine which at that time was very aerodynamic. As the years [...]

Introducing our new correspondent on the West Coast of the USA. We recently shared the first part of Daan Stafhorst’s Alaskan adventure. Daan is the Dutchman residing in New York from where he shares his motorcycles stories with all of us. On a recent motorcycle road trip between San Francisco and [...]

Looking for a cafe racer kit for your very own cafe racer project? You’ve come to the right place! No, I don’t sell cafe racer kits, but I’ll put you in the right direction! The cafe racer scene may be established back in the 50s and 60s. It’s more alive than [...]

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, [...]