The UK based bike brewers from Auto Fabrica like things clean and simple. So when building a cafe racer, they go down to the bare essentials. The design task for this Yamaha SR500 was also simple: create a one-off bike with a timeless appearance. The result is a slick and simple looking Yamaha [...]

Beautiful Honda CB550 Scrambler by Herencia Custom Garage. Sometimes only pictures say enough…

When I think of a café racer I usually think of a custom bike based on one of these models. The Yamaha Scorpio is not on that list. It’s actually far away from it. This commuter-oriented motorcycle is not your typical pick when you want to build a café racer. But [...]

If you take a look at the collection of South Garage Motorcycles you’ll see that these guys have a sharp eye for detail. It’s not surprising that they are located in the fashion capital of Europe (and maybe the world): Milano. In their small shop they offer complete custom bikes an custom built [...]

Spanish bike brewer Jose “Pepo” Rosell from XTR, former “Radical Ducati” or RAD is know for his awesome and brutal Ducati builds. They announced to stop in 2014, but the brand was bought by the French Ducatiamo, so RAD could still build on. This Ducati 1198 is stripped from a lot of weight [...]

It’s been almost 2 weeks now since the amazing Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2015 took place all over the world. More than 37,000 gentlemen (and gentle-girls) collected over 2.2 million US dollars for fighting prostate cancer. There are a lot of cool images and videos around and I wanted to share a small [...]

The Yamaha Virago is a great platform for building a café racer. It’s massive V-twin and great proportions makes it a love for the eye when stripped down to it’s bare essentials. I had to share this great peace of work By Diogo Oliveira. I couldn’t find any specs of it, so [...]

I know, we featured a Bonneville yesterday, but today I’ve stumbled upon another great T100 Bonneville custom which I’ve had to share with you. This one, the “Macco nr. 20”, is from Macco Motors in Spain, known by their love of Triumph’s (but also other bikes). Great and subtle design with some [...]

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. [...]