Ironwood’s new BMW Boxer goes with the grain
There’s a trend that’s picked up speed amazingly fast this year: wood on motorcycles. It’s tricky to pull off, but when it’s…
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Your complete guide to cafe racer motorcycles, from classic bikes to modern-day specials.
Here you’ll find everything from traditional Triumph and Honda cafe racers to the latest BMWs, Ducatis and Yamahas from new wave builders. Discover the cafe racer parts, seats and performance upgrades that’ll take your own cafe racer bike to the next level.
KM22: Every great custom Guzzi, distilled into one
If there was ever a blueprint for the ultimate Moto Guzzi cafe racer, this is it. Kaffeemaschine’s latest build has the perfect…
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Back In Black: A Bonneville cafe racer resurrection
It’s a familiar story: a treasured bike, a crash, and then a rebuild. Except this isn’t a streetfighter: it’s a low-slung Triumph…
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Long Live the Zed: AC Sanctuary’s ‘new’ Kawasaki Z1
The new Kawasaki Z900RS had barely broken cover when custom examples started popping up. First Kawasaki Japan commissioned three builds from local…
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Every Cloud: A new life for a written-off Buell XB9S
There’s nothing more depressing than checking the damage to your bike after dropping it—or worse, after a crash. But for mildly damaged…
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Stone Cold Crazy: A Ducati Monster Wrapped in Basalt
We’ve seen builders manipulate steel, aluminum, titanium, fiberglass and carbon fiber. But this creamy smooth Ducati Monster 400 cafe racer features a…
Read more »Heavy Breather: A KTM RC8 with the mother of all filters
A lot goes down at EICMA every year. For father and son Dino and Marios Nikolaidis, it’s a chance to travel from…
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White Hot: A cafe racer CB750 from New York
It takes a healthy imagination to create a good custom motorcycle. You need the ability to look through a stock bike and…
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Escape Vehicle: Building a BMW R80RT To Stay Sane
Using a motorcycle as a coping mechanism is nothing new. For most of us, that means clearing the head with a ride…
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Beyond Z: The Kawasaki Factory Z900RS Custom Project
It looks like Kawasaki has hit a home run with its new Z900RS retro standard, and no-one in the press corps has…
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Gareth Roberts’ Ducati MH900e Superlite cafe racer
We’re suckers for fast, classic Italian machinery, and it doesn’t get much better than this: a sleek Ducati MH900e worked on by…
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Rosso Corsa: A Honda Cafe Racer Inspired by a Ferrari
Looking for a motorcycle to complement your classic Ferrari? Most guys would opt for something that’s also Italian and red—like a Ducati.…
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