- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 4, 2015
BMW classics are a common choice for custom motorcycle builder. Recently we’ve featured an awesome BMW R100R Café Racer by Diamond Atelier, now the Austrian guys from Vagabund Moto showed us their version of the R100R Café Racer. It’s a healthy mix of a scrambler and café racer in one bike. Vagabund has [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 30, 2015
Not a new build, but worth the share: a BMW R80 Scrambler by Down & Out. We know them from their great custom bikes, just like this Triump T100 Bonneville custom. Check out the full story behind the bike here.
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 20, 2015
Just some random pics of a beautifully customized 1979 BMW R60/7 called “The Baron”. Pictures taken by Ton van Damme.
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 16, 2015
Founded in the summer of July 2013, Diamond Atelier had a clear vision on the custom motorcycle scene: they want to build the next generation of café racers. Their third build was this awesome looking BMW R100R Café Racer and we have to be honest: it looks damn good! Their first build, a [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: October 21, 2015
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 30, 2015
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 29, 2015
That the new BMW R nineT is a great platform for custom bike builders was already a fact, shown by Shiro Nakajima a couple of weeks ago. Italian brewer Luis Bertelli from LuisMoto was inspired by the legendary R80G/S Paris Dakar when turning this BMW R nineT into a amazing cool scrambler.
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 24, 2015
With a daily job sitting behind a desk in the IT-business you can create a lot of cool stuff. But still: it’s behind a desk… These Belgian bike brewers wanted to do something more than just clicking their mice and ticking on their keyboards. So it all started with a passion [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 31, 2015
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 [...]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 1, 1970
BMW Cafe Racer is one of the most sought-after custom motorcycles. Google it and you’ll find tons of results. Since the custom bike scene got his big revival, the BMW R-series or “Airheads” are one of the most popular base bikes for cafe racers. And that’s for multiple reasons. They’re extremely reliable, [...]