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.
If you’ve ever thought the Royal Enfield Himalayan 450 would make the perfect rally bike, this week’s opening act is for you. Our Sunday salvo also includes a Triumph Thruxton from Tamarit, an off-road racing-inspired Harley-Davidson Pan America, and a stylish RGNT electric café racer.
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We don’t usually go in for themed bikes around here—but once in a while a custom builder nails a concept and piques our interest. Case in point; this Moto Guzzi California 1100, which takes inspiration from the hit zombie apocalypse TV series, The Walking Dead. It’s the work of Matteucci Garage, run by Marco Matteucci…
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Based in Caxias do Sul, a town in Brazil’s hilly Serra Gaúcha region, Caffeine Custom is fast becoming a regular on these pages. They celebrated their tenth anniversary last year, and wanted to celebrate in style with a special custom build. The stars aligned when a customer approached them to create a slick Honda CB500F…
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Six cylinders, 1,649 cubic centimeters, 113 liters of storage space, and more electronic aids than you can shake a stick at; the BMW K1600 GTL is a high-tech behemoth, built to devour miles in supreme comfort. It’s the first bike we’d pick for a cross-country trip, grinning widely as its six inline pistons spool up…
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Once I’ve completed the arduous task of poring over our statistics to compile our list of the year’s most popular custom motorcycles,…
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The mid-sized street bike market is one of the hottest on the planet, and the Triumph Street Triple is near the top…
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Headquartered in India, TVS Motor is one of the biggest motorcycle manufacturers that you may not have heard of. They sell a…
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On the first weekend of December each year, the Pacifico Yokohama convention center is filled to the brim with highly imaginative machines…
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High-end custom motorcycles are a joy to ogle, but owning them is often beyond the reach of us mere mortals. Not everyone…
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Since they first hit the scene, Auto Fabrica has flirted with the concept of motorcycles as art pieces. The machines they build…
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With roughly 2.7 million people living in Brooklyn, New York, the serendipitous tale of this BMW R100R café racer stands out as…
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The smell of two-stroke oil lingers in the air, courtesy of Roland Sands Design’s razor-sharp custom Yamaha RD400. We also profile a…
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