- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 19, 2016
One of the reasons to start with BikeBrewers is to get and give inspiration on building custom motorcycles. One of our Dutch readers, Oz, got his hands on a ’79 Honda CB550 and turned it into a one-off machine: Oz takes his hobby very serious and overhauled the complete motorcycle. Every […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 15, 2016
We know Ed Turner from his amazing Custom Honda CX500 “Japan Style” he built in 2015 (check it out here). This cool bike was all over the web and social media and gained a lot of positive feedback. This time, Ed built a cool Honda Scrambler, based on a parallel CB125 K5 […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 22, 2015
No list of specs, no long story, just some shots of another great build by Kott Motorcycles: Also check out this CB750 from Kott Motorcycles.
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 16, 2015
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 […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 14, 2015
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- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 9, 2015
Honda is one of the most popular base bikes for a café racer. But most of the times we see a customized CB or CX. But the Honda Shadow is a bike we don’t see that much in the custom motorcycle scene. So this Honda Shadow Café Racer deserves to be […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 8, 2015
Building your own café racer is beautiful, but for some of us it’s a project without an ending or it’s simply not possible due to other reasons. In that case you can buy a modern café racer or if you don’t want a new bike, you buy a custom (classic) project […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 7, 2015
The builders of Steel Bent Customs get a brief and clear assignment: build me a café racer based on a CB750 with a big USD fork and spoke wheels. All other details and designs where up to the choice of the builders. Nothing to fear when you take a look at […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 25, 2015
I stumbled upon a great bike which is shown on this page. But when I did some research on the project, I saw an even greater story behind the build: Sofi Tsingos from GT-Moto practically grew up in an aircraft maintenance shop with her father. The shop was full of old cars […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 23, 2015
Building a café racer always starts with a passion and a plan. Oscar Axhede from Sweden had a plan to build his own café racer and bought a CB750. But after a while he could not give this bike the styling he was looking for. So he sold the CB750 and bought […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 18, 2015
Yet another cool Honda CB750 Café Racer by MotoHangar based on a ´75 CB. MotoHangar is specialized in customizing and restoring Japanese classics. For customization, they offer different “packs” to choose from with a fixed price and a standard set of modifications. Summary of the works: A 1975 Honda CB750 featuring, custom […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 13, 2015
The custom motorcycle scene in Indonesia is booming! Despite the fact that importing motorcycles and parts is very expensive, the creators of Studio Motor use their skills and creativity to create awesome looking café racers. The owner of this ’98 CB1000 had simple and clear instructions for the builders: create a […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 12, 2015
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: […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 10, 2015
Yet another cool Honda CB750 custom. This CB750 Bratstyle one is based on the both loved and hated ’91 Nighthawk by Wesley Hannam from Hong Kong. Wesley teamed up with a mentor: Geoff Giles of ET Custom Motorcycles. This hobby project took almost 2 years and the bike is named “Soichiro”, after the […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 6, 2015
Small displacement motorcycles gain in popularity in the custom motorcycle scene (check out this Honda CG125 and this Yamaha Scorpio). In some parts of the world they are simply used to ride cheap and efficient from point A to B. But Buds Motorcycles from Brazil wanted to build something special. The result is […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 3, 2015
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 […]