Kawasaki kz500. My cafe racer project.

Over the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to test ride almost every new modern classic, retro sports and heritage style motorcycle that’s hit the market. Whether it’s been a Husqvarna Svartpi...

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...

The Kawasaki KX500 is one of the most iconic two-stroke machines ever produced. On the professional racing level, this bike dominated off-road and outdoor motocross championships but was never a wi...

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...

Behind every bike there is a cafe racer, of course, some models are easier to transform, but if there are people who are not looking for easy ways and this is a story about Matteo, who never ceases...

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,...

This is a rare Rau Kawasaki race bike from 1983. “Rau” is the surname of Manfred Rau, a German motorcycle frame designer and engineer who built many race-winning bikes in period....

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...

Legendary 4 piston Japanese classic bike with a modern cafe racer twist to it. Arguably the best sounding bike in the world....

Here are some more pictures of how the bike looked before the rebuild....

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