- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 1, 2016
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 15, 2016
A couple of weeks ago I was looking into one of the many cafe racer groups online and I stumbled upon a cool BMW R100R Cafe Racer posted by Paulo Pereira from Portugal. I instantly fell in love with his bike, and so did others regarding to the many likes and share’s I [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: June 30, 2016
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: June 27, 2016
Since Vagabund Moto thrilled the scene with their amazing BMW R100R Scrambler (with a some café in it), I kept a sharp eye on them. This amazing creation finished #2 in the top 10 custom motorcycles of 2015. A couple of weeks ago they’ve started with some teasers on Facebook, announcing their latest [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: June 23, 2016
Today I received an e-mail from Mauricio Tavares (friends call him “JT”) from Johannesburg, South Africa. Together with a friend he created something very cool, based on a 1999 BMW R1100R. Really worth to share this bike and it’s story! Mauricio worked for many years in the “corporate jungle” and a couple [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: June 12, 2016
Our friends from VTR Customs are 100% BMW fanatics and we’ve seen a lot of cool builds leaving their shop. Remember this cool BMW R1200R Café Racer? Or what about this brutal custom R NineT? So you’ll get it that I’lI keep a close eye on them. This is their latest [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: May 24, 2016
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: April 27, 2016
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: April 13, 2016
Garage Sherrif, based in Montréal, Canada is a small motorcycle workshop with a preference for wood. So when they started customizing this BMW R90, it was clear that it would have wood all over it. Next to the cool wooden mudguards and other details, the overall look of this BMW R90 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: April 11, 2016
VTR Customs from Switzerland is known for their great work on BMW’s and it seems that they have a slight preference for the already legendary R NineT (check out this cool R NineT Café Racer build by them). So to add a little variety in their builds they took another base bike. Since VTR [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: March 29, 2016
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: March 14, 2016
The BMW R1200R is not the most famous BMW around. But as a base bike for a custom motorcycle it’s even less famous… But the French guys from Motorieep saw that as a challenge and turned this ugly duck into a great looking, fun to drive R1200R Scrambler. For a more classical [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 14, 2016
Random found custom BMW R80 Café Racer by Craig Jones. Beautiful clean design.
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 4, 2016
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 15, 2015
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 11, 2015
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 [...]