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Summer is over and in Sweden you’re always sure that you can expect loads of snow. So for that reason it’s time to adjust your bike if you live in the Nordics. 6/5/4 Motors (you may remember their awesome Ducati 860 GTS Cafe Racer) created this cool Yamaha XT500 Scrambler for [...]

Summer is on and the motorcycle season is on full throttle here in the Netherlands (in between the rain…). In the bikes of the month for July we have: 2 KTM’s, 2 BMW’s and a Ducati/Cagiva. BMW R100R Café Racer by Curteskin Atelier A couple of weeks ago I was looking into one of [...]

A lot of beautiful custom motorcycles around the web this month: we’ve selected the most outstanding bikes for you. This month we have another amazing bike from (Ducati) legend XTR Pepo, a radical BMW R nineT from Australia, a BMW S1000R from Switzerland a Honda NX650 from South Africa and last [...]

The BMW R-series is one of the most used cafe racer base bikes, and that’s for different reasons. They are cool, reliable, stand out for (German) quality, are rideable and powerful. And those air cooled  2 cylinders just sound awesome. Not forget the fact that there are tons of them still [...]

Smoking advertisments & motorsports go way back. Who does’t remember the red & white Marlboro F1 McLarens and Ducati’s or the blue Gauloises Yamaha’s? But since smoking isn’t healthy anymore, the advertising of tobacco was prohibited. But especially the Marlboro marked cars and bikes where the most recognizable. Luis Bertelli from [...]

The “Motorbeurs Utrecht” is the general motorcycle show of the Netherlands and always worth a visit. I was exited to see the new Yamaha XSR900 and the new Triumph classic line, especially the Thruxton R, but it was also great to see some of the builds back that got featured here. This [...]

The Yamaha Virago is a becoming more and more popular as a base bike for café racers. Despite the odd lines of the original machine, it can be turned into something beautiful. And one of the best parts of the Virago is the powerful V-twin engine. Good for us is that [...]

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 [...]

Don’t forget to check out our Top 10 Honda CB Cafe Racers. Inspired by the “Superstrada CB750” from Classified Moto, BBCR Engineering from St. John (Indiana, US), worked almost a year on his own Honda CB750 Café Racer. He did an amazing job and the list of custom parts modifications is thorough: [...]

The choice for modern classics is not limited to “real” motorcycles: Honda now has a cool retro 50cc concept which fits the label scooter or moped. These cool looking bikes where revealed at the Tokyo Motorshow: the Honda Grom 50 Scramber. Small bikes, based on the legendary Honda Monkey. They came [...]

Modern classics are very popular these days so motorcycle manufacturers all want a piece of this growing market. Just like Yamaha: they revealed a cool concept bike at the AIMExpo last week, the Yamaha DT-07 Flat Track. Yamaha’s US Racing Division worked together with Jeff Palhegyi Design (JPD) and created a custom frame and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Totally not capable of pronouncing their name, but the brewers Thanh Đa Tự Garage, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, put this nice ’71 CB750 together. Found this one on Facebook with the following specs: Kawasaki ZX-6R forks Yamaha R6 brakes Ducati 1098 handlebars Classic Firestone tires Open air filters Custom gas tank [...]

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 [...]

The Scrambler motorcycle is a type of bike which isn’t easy to place in a box. So, to give the scrambler bike a clear explanation isn’t easy either. But one thing is for sure – it’s a bike built for off-road and street use. The term “scrambler” has been in common [...]