Purosangue: Officine Rossopuro’s Guzzi cafe racer
The custom world is rife with fads and fashions, but there are a few one-marque specialists taking the slow and steady route…
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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.
12 Steps to Building a Cafe Racer
The first feature on ‘How to Build a Café Racer’ struck a chord. Not everybody who read it agreed with the content,…
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Tobias Guckel’s Kawasaki cafe racer
Tobias Guckel is one of Germany’s top custom builders, and a name you’ve probably never heard of. Based in the tiny Bavarian…
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How To Build A Cafe Racer
I’m a car designer by trade: I spend my time working out how to make machinery look as good as it can.…
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From Good To Great: The Wrenchmonkees’ Laverda 750
If there’s one company that symbolizes the style of the new wave custom scene, it’s the Wrenchmonkees. Their motorcycles are raw, simple…
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Yamaha SR500 cafe racer by Chappell Customs
Chris Chappell’s last SR500 was a show-stopper. It was well received when we initially featured it, and went on to earn a…
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RD350 Streak by Brew Bikes
If you like two-wheelers of the pedal-powered kind, you probably know about Reynolds 853 tubing. It’s a seamless, air-hardened and heat-treated steel…
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Kit out your Bonneville: The Metisse cafe racer
If you’ve got a recent model Triumph Bonneville, Thruxton or Scrambler in your garage and want to upgrade it, you’re in luck.…
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Honda Nighthawk by Classified Moto
If there’s a builder entitled to look back on 2013 with a quiet sense of satisfaction, it’s John Ryland of Classified Moto.…
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Yamaha XJR400 by Ellaspede: A budget cafe
Let’s say you’re a relatively new convert to motorcycling. And you want a custom bike, something a little smaller and cheaper than…
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Honda CB cafe racer by ExesoR
Is brown the new black? This highly-caffeinated Honda CB café racer built for a coffee company sure looks good. It’s a creative…
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‘Flipside’: A custom 2008 Triumph Bonneville
Some motorcycles are just brimming with purpose, like this custom Triumph Bonneville on steroids. It looks like it’s poised to shred rubber,…
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