Where the name “cafe racer” may refer to racing and speed, the most builds we see are not able to compete with modern day +200hp machines. But what if you take one of the most powerful modern street bikes and turn it into a caferacerisch machine? Well, the best way to describe this: [...]

Sometimes I just stuble upon a cool ride online, with or without a story. This Cool Honda CB450 Café Racer built by South Monkeys is called “Café puro” and has no long story behind it’s existence.

About a year ago I’ve stumbled upon a custom motorcycle from Meat and Grease. A small workshop in Belgium owned by two IT guys who needed some time off the desk. So they’ve decided to start building motorcycles next to their day jobs. In september I’ve featured one of their first bikes, [...]

The Honda CB is from day one a very popular bike for cafe racer builders. The bikes are reliable, have great proportions, are easy to work on, have a massive after market and are pretty easy to find since Honda produced tons of them. The CB-series contain an extensive list of models, from [...]

Yes: BMW is one of the largest motorcycle brands. Yes: they build great machines. And yes: the BMW R nineT is one of their finest modern classic motorcycles. From day one, BMW aimed on a big slice of the retro/vintage/hipster market R nineT BMW . Just like Triumph did for years with [...]

Summer is over and in Sweden you’re always sure that you can expect loads of snow. So for that reason it’s time to adjust your bike if you live in the Nordics. 6/5/4 Motors (you may remember their awesome Ducati 860 GTS Cafe Racer) created this cool Yamaha XT500 Scrambler for [...]

I’m always happy to see creations from The Netherlands, and with all the talent lined up, we can expect some real cool machines the coming time. We’ve seen some amazing bikes from workshops like Wimoto, Ironwood Custom Motorcycles and Wrench Kings. This Honda CB750 Super Sport Café Racer comes from the [...]

A BMW from the Bavarian mountains, an undefined but complex engineered 3 cylinder 2-stroke from Ukraine, a Kawasaki Vulcan S from Germany and an out of the box Suzuki GS550 from Holland. Meet our best custom bikes of September 2016. BMW R100R Café Racer “DA#7” by Diamond Atelier Since the guys [...]

Do yo remember this cool RD135 Café Racer? A real dapper 135cc 2 stroke machine. This little machine produced an impressive 18hp. But what if you take the engine of his bigger brother, the RD350, and redesign the engine to a 555cc triple cylinder? Well, that’s exactly what the guys from [...]

With this post I’ll try to inspire cafe racer enthusiast to start working on their own Low Budget Cafe Racer. Café racers come in a lot of different setups and prices, from bikes under $1000 and even up to $60,000 (like the CX500 Café Racer from Sacha Lakic). I think it’s not necessary to [...]

The BMW R100GS is an evolution of the legendary R80GS and is likely one of the most toughest bikes from the 80’s. But in the custom scene it still goes strong. This R100GS Scrambler is called “The Elegant Escape” and is built by Officine Sbrannetti from Italy. The name is a direct [...]