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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Introducing our new correspondent on the West Coast of the USA. We recently shared the first part of Daan Stafhorst’s Alaskan adventure. Daan is the Dutchman residing in New York from where he shares his motorcycles stories with all of us. On a recent motorcycle road trip between San Francisco and [...]

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 [...]

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Suzuki Inazuma GW250 motorcycle variants have very few populations here Indonesia, so rarely seen on the streets. Especially Inazuma that has been totally custom like this may be the only one that exists. It all started from the friendship of fellow custom motorcycle enthusiasts. David, the owner of this Inazuma, work [...]

You’ve read that right: no build thread, building tips, bike photos. No. I thought it was time to write a cool article about the essence of motorcycles: riding them. Enjoying freedom. We all know the Route 66 or Highway 1 route in the US or the Oxley in Australia. And we [...]

Hi My Name is Lars Schau, I’m 46 years old and I live in Bramming, Denmark. My earlier project, (a Honda Goldwing Cafe Racer), was a huge success, and it won first price, at a Allingåbro Motor Festival, back in may 2015. http://www.motorcykelgalleri.dk/galleri/70622-honda_goldwing_gl_1100_cafe_racer_edition_solgt In September 2015, I began my project with [...]

Swedish Design Meandering along the dark alleys of the Internet you sometimes pass the most unexpected sheds. We all know Scandinavians have a knack for brilliant design. No, I am not talking about the stuff you have to put together with an ‘allen key’ produced in mass quantities by the big [...]