The KTM 390 Duke is pure fun machine; light, agile, torqy 1 cylinder and cool looks. But as it is with stock bikes: it’s not unique. Esteban & Gustavo Pasquale from Garaje 57, based in Colombia, took this 390 Duke a part and created this out of it:

No list of specs, no long story, just some shots of another great build by Kott Motorcycles: Also check out this CB750 from Kott Motorcycles.

My first bike was a 2007 Suzuki SV650s, I really loved the engine of this torqy 2 cylinder which gave the bike a huge fun factor. But there where a lot of things I did not like: It had an awful riding position, sloppy suspension, simply no brake power at all and [...]

With the awesome creation they’ve showed in Paris some weeks ago (this awesome Kawasaki Vulcan S Café Racer), Oficina MRS got my attention. It was very clear to me that these guys take motorcycle customization very serious, so I took a peek in their portfolio and one bike stood out: This [...]

The BMW R NineT is real modern café racer. From day one it’s meant to be customized. And why not? It’s a great bike with a powerful engine and a wide range of custom, aftermarket, bolt on parts. And if you say custom and aftermarket parts, one name pops up: Rizoma. So [...]

[su_button url=”http://bikebrewers.com/9-best-custom-bmw-r-nine-t/” style=”flat” size=”5″ wide=”no” center=”yes” icon=”icon: mail-forward”]The 9 Best BMW R nineT’s[/su_button] The boys from Lucky Custom from Argentina sure know how to build a custom motorcycle. I’ve recently featured one of their latest builds, a slick CB550 Café Racer. Digging into their impressive list of creations, I’ve stumbled upon this [...]

The BMW R80(rt) was a common used police (or better “polizei”) bike for the German law enforcers in the 80’s and 90’s. MotoAlex from Germany found two of them and decided to turn these twins into café racers. There are not many specs revealed yet, but we can see that these guys made [...]

Honda is one of the most popular base bikes for a café racer. But most of the times we see a customized CB or CX. But the Honda Shadow is a bike we don’t see that much in the custom motorcycle scene. So this Honda Shadow Café Racer deserves to be [...]

Building your own café racer is beautiful, but for some of us it’s a project without an ending or it’s simply not possible due to other reasons. In that case you can buy a modern café racer or if you don’t want a new bike, you buy a custom (classic) project [...]

The builders of Steel Bent Customs get a brief and clear assignment: build me a café racer based on a CB750 with a big USD fork and spoke wheels. All other details and designs where up to the choice of the builders. Nothing to fear when you take a look at [...]

BMW classics are a common choice for custom motorcycle builder. Recently we’ve featured an awesome BMW R100R Café Racer by Diamond Atelier, now the Austrian guys from Vagabund Moto showed us their version of the R100R Café Racer. It’s a healthy mix of a scrambler and café racer in one bike. Vagabund has [...]

Custom motorcycle enthusiast Alex from Piston Trigger loves Japanese classics and already had a cool custom bike, based on a KZ400. Unfortunately, he crashed that one into a van and destroyed (most of) it. So he was desperate in need of a new ride. On Craigslist he found a ’79 Kawasaki KZ650 in [...]