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It’s always cool to see great build from your own country and with a constantly growing scene, there is a lot of cool stuff coming from Holland. This bike is from Moto Adonis and based on a ’79 BMW R100RS. This awesome BWM R100RS is not a typical café racer, scrambler [...]

Found a great Yamaha XV750 Virago Café Racer by VTR Customs. This is one of the builds they’ve displayed at Swiss Moto 2016. I really like what these guys are doing, remember the awesome BMW R NineT we’ve featured earlier.  

The BMW R NineT keeps attracting custom bike builders. No news at all, since it was build as a modern café racer and comes with an extensive list of aftermarket parts. Big brands like Rizoma have an entire catalogue, just for the R NineT. This brew comes from Switzerland and is created by [...]

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 [...]

Diamond Atelier is know for their clear vision on custom motorcycles and created some real masterpieces (like this BMW R100R we’ve featured earlier). Build number 5 (codename DA5) is based on a ’92 Suzuki DR650, which was the daily ride of co-founder Tom Konecny. The Suzuki DR650 is a real dirt bike [...]

A modern cafe racer is the solution for those who can’t/won’t build there own cafe racer or just don’t want to have the maintenance of an old bike. Building your own bike is awesome, but also requires a lot of time, effort, skills, knowledge, space etc. Since the scene for cafe [...]

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 [...]

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 BMW R nineT is supposed to be a litte ‘caferacerish’ by itself, but Shiro Nakajima from 46Works didn’t find that enough so he has built his own concept of this BMW R nineT. An incredible creation! This bike is also listed in our 9 best custom BMW R nine T‘s. Check also this walk [...]

Polish brewers Marcin & Marcin from Ratbikes did a great job on this Honda CB350 Café Racer. Their passion for rebuilding 60’s and 70’s motorcycle classics started with an old and rusty ’74 BMW R60 / 6 which they found in an old barn and transformed in their very first custom bike. [...]

A café racer project all starts with one simple question: which bike should I use as a donor / base motor? In this post we list some of the most popular models which are very suitable to turn into a café racer and are affordable for the most of us. Classic icons [...]

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 [...]

A near perfect Honda GL500 café racer, an even brutal as rare Benelli streetfighter, a cool concept bike from Honda, a sexy BMW R80 from Holland, another BMW café racer based on a R100 and as a bonus something very special based on a Belgian FN (a bike which I actually own!). [...]

Alfonso is an extraordinary custom, based on a BMW R100RT, built by Wido Veldkamp of WIMOTO. Wibo built this beemer as a tribute to his late father, but it's certainly also a showcase of his craftmanship. Featuring a handmade girder front fork, a completely re-imagined rear fork of elegantly curved tubes, and a one-piece body like no other, plus a plethora of other custom pieces, Alfonso is quite the exceptional custom bike.