Cafe Racer Passion

Rob Jarvis introduced the Ducati 750SS cafe racer at the Cafe Racer Cup show, held a few weeks ago on the Lydden Hill racetrack in Kent, UK. It was a race prepped motorcycle, when Rob came across i...

This V9 Gannet Moto Guzzi is a pure racer with tight stance and proportions.It is a radical transformation from a relaxed cruiser configuration of the Moto Guzzi V9 "Roamer" donor bike, which g...

Founded in the tail-end of the 1950s before eventually going under in the mid-‘80s, Bultaco was an iconic motorcycle brand headquartered out of Barcelona, Spain. And while almost four decades have...

Custom motorcycle projects have a funny way of snowballing. Simple commissions for minor modifications can often balloon into elaborate and wildly transformative one-off works — as evidenced by Kin...

It’s getting easier and easier to build a cafe racer. It used to be that you’d either have to pay someone a lot of money to do it for you or you’d need to sink a heap of time into learning fabricat...

Trevers father, John Scales, was a 2 stroke road racer during the 1970s. “I heard so many stories from my Dad about the incredible fun he had on his RD350 back in the day. He cut his pistons down,...

The 1974 Honda CB360 is powered by a four-stroke SOHC parallel-twin mill that packs a displacement of 357cc and two valves per cylinder. At around 9,000 rpm, the air-cooled engine summons 34 ponies...

The GB400 TT you see here has been significantly modified from new, it now has a new fairing and a slew of new parts to further evoke race bikes from the golden age – it was built in Sydney and thi...

The photos, reportedly taken at a dealer event in India, clearly show a CB350 with slightly different components. In this case, the new parts create a classic cafe racer motorcycle....

The Cerra GT 865 is the custom Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 built by Skunk Machine. The project had multiple development phases, and most importantly, it was done in collaboration. You can read...

Any café racers on the Tampa bay area?...

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The Honda CX500 debuted in the late 70s and was manufactured into the early 1980s. Featuring a 497cc transversely-mounted v-twin making 50 horsepower, it would eventually develop somewhat of a cult fo...

The base of the seat is made of 4-mm Alucobond and pillows from furniture latex....