For those who don’t want/will/can build there own custom bike, Down & Out Café Racers from the UK now offer these brand new Triumph T100 “Limited Edition Spirit Bonneville” with the Down & Out conversion kit, which consist of: Custom Polished Alloy Mudguards Front and Rear Down & Out Head Light and [...]

That the Honda CX500 is gaining popularity in the café racer scene is obvious. We see a lot of cool customized “poor mens Guzzi’s, these days. Check out this one, and this one, and this one. This creation is from Wrench ‘n Wheels, based in Portugal, and they call it “Wind [...]

A random bike we found on Facebook by Italian brewers Simone Conti Motorcycles (SCM). They customized a Buell XB12 into this awesome ride. Too bad we couldn’t find any specs or list of mods, but we can see that they’ve put a lot of effort in this bike. Like the design [...]

That Honda is a popular pick for custom bike projects is not new. But normally we see a lot of CB’s and CX’s. This bike by Strange Coast Moto is something else. First of all: it’s a Honda VT500, we don’t see them often. Second: it looks awesome, detailed, fast and mean. [...]

Marcin & Marcin from Ratbikes did an awesome job on this Honda CB350 Café Racer, so we kept a close eye on them. They took this BMW R65 LS a part and turned it into a great custom ride. It’s hard to recognize the original ride in this one, and we [...]

That the new BMW R nineT is a great platform for custom bike builders was already a fact, shown by Shiro Nakajima a couple of weeks ago. Italian brewer Luis Bertelli from LuisMoto was inspired by the legendary R80G/S Paris Dakar when turning this BMW R nineT into a amazing cool scrambler.

KTM is not a huge brand in the custom bike scene, but Roland Sands Design is not afraid to think out of the box (check out this great Indian Scout). So they took a KTM 690 and converted into a very cool street/dirt bike. Every single part has been worked on, with [...]

The Honda CX500 or “poor men’s Guzzi” is getting more and more popular in the custom bike scene. Just as the Honda CB-series, there known for their great reliability and nice proportions. The big difference is that the Honda CX500 has a lovely and high torque, water cooled 2 cylinder engine with [...]

With a daily job sitting behind a desk in the IT-business you can create a lot of cool stuff. But still: it’s behind a desk… These Belgian bike brewers wanted to do something more than just clicking their mice and ticking on their keyboards. So it all started with a passion [...]

Yes, we also like LISTS! Especially when it comes to café racer bikes. So here’s a list of the 17 best café racer bikes you can grab for building a café racer. Please note: this is a list of vintage motorcycles, because we like the old timers best: All Honda CB-series from [...]

The, relatively new, Dutch brewers of Wrench Kings, did an crazy cool job on this Honda GL500 (based on the CX500). With this bike they definitely put The Netherlands on the map in de café racer scene. They took this baby for a complete strip down in their workshop based in Utrecht [...]

If I think of Switzerland, I think of banks, chocolate, purple cows and snowy mountains. Custom bikes are not in that list… But Andreas Fraefel of Motobene changed that list forever with this gorgeous Ducati Monster Café Racer. They designed this bike for a female customer and modified the whole ride: Custom gas [...]