Boss Level: A BMW R100 café racer with carbon leaf spring suspension
Jérémie Duchampt is a dab hand at building slick café racers—a fact that he’s proven time and time again. The proprietor of…
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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.
Speed Read: A BMW R nineT Racer with retro style and more
This week’s bikes are all about looking fast and going fast. Pier City Cycles gives the BMW R nineT Racer a massive…
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Speed Read: A rare Honda Monkey Gold Edition and more
One bike sticks out like a sore thumb this week; a rare Honda Monkey Gold Edition, currently for sale through Iconic Motorbike…
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K-Speed strikes again with a menacing Honda Dax café racer
When the Honda Dax was brought back into production a couple of years ago, K-Speed wasted little time getting their grubby paws…
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Four-cylinder Fury: A Honda Hornet café racer from France
On paper, the late-2000s Honda CB600F Hornet is a great bike; a lively four-cylinder middleweight, widely praised for its rideability and reliability.…
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Icon remixed: A custom Ducati Monster 821 by Jerem Motorcycles
Before Ducati took the Monster in a lamentable direction by removing its signature trellis frame and swathing it in plastic, the Ducati…
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Fujara: A wispish Yamaha Virago café racer from Slovakia
They say that you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, but no one bothered telling Earth Motorcycles that.…
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Period Incorrect: A Norley café racer with a vintage Ironhead motor
Ben Schmitt’s name first appeared on these pages three years ago, when the legendary NYC Norton built him a Norton Commando race…
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Built not bought: A custom-framed Yamaha XS400 with patented forks
With its inch-perfect frame, OEM-style bodywork, and period-correct graphics, you’d be forgiven for mistaking this Yamaha for a forgotten 90s factory prototype.…
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Speed Read: A neo-retro BMW R nineT café racer from New York and more
Two very different BMW boxers set things off this week; a BMW R nineT café racer from New York, and a BMW…
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Speed Read: A timeless Royal Enfield Continental GT café racer and more
Metallic green is the flavor of the week, with our first two bikes—a Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 café racer and a…
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Speed Read: A razor-sharp BMW R1300GS from Switzerland and more
The Swiss maestros at VTR Customs deliver the first custom BMW R1300GS that we’ve seen, while Radical Speedshop builds a bespoke Moto…
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