- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 4, 2015
Beautiful creation of Knuckleupspeedshop this ’74 CB550:
- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 2, 2015
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!
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 29, 2015
A beautiful Moto Guzzi Café racer by Moto Nero, Bristol UK:
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 27, 2015
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. [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 25, 2015
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
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 23, 2015
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 22, 2015
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 20, 2015
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 20, 2015
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 19, 2015
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. [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 15, 2015
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. [...]
- By NHWSPublished On: January 1, 1970
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- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 1, 1970
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 [...]