- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 5, 2016
Yet another scrambler this week! This bike is based on a Ducati Scrambler (no we won’t call it Scrambler Ducati…), and is more of a facelift than a real custom. Ducati has a clear vision on todays motorcycle market where everybody wants something unique and personal. So the Ducati Scrambler comes […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 6, 2016
The Dutch team Moto Puro set themselves on the map about two years ago with the Ducati Elite II; a custom build café racer based on the 1199 Panigale (check it out here). At the end of 2015, Ducati started a worldwide challenge for Ducati dealers to build their own interpretation […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 11, 2015
It’s not a typical café racer nor a street fighter, so Andreas Fougner from Eze Visuals called it a “Custom Café Fighter”. I think that is the name that comes closest to this superb design. It’s an aggressive looking naked bike, based on the legendary Ducati 916. Andreas is a professional 3D designer […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 5, 2015
It are not only pure hardcore custom bike builders we see with great designs. Designing a motorcycle is much more seen as a form of art. Remember the cool CX500 Café Racer by Sacha Lakic? Pure art! Gessato is a small company that celebrates exceptional art, architecture, style and design and they’ve shown […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: October 21, 2015
A modern cafe racer is the solution for those who can’t/won’t build there own cafe racer or just don’t want to have the maintenance of an old bike. Building your own bike is awesome, but also requires a lot of time, effort, skills, knowledge, space etc. Since the scene for cafe […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: October 12, 2015
Spanish bike brewer Jose “Pepo” Rosell from XTR, former “Radical Ducati” or RAD is know for his awesome and brutal Ducati builds. They announced to stop in 2014, but the brand was bought by the French Ducatiamo, so RAD could still build on. This Ducati 1198 is stripped from a lot of weight […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 21, 2015
If I think of Switzerland, I think of banks, chocolate, purple cows and snowy mountains. Custom bikes are not in that list… But Andreas Fraefel of Motobene changed that list forever with this gorgeous Ducati Monster Café Racer. They designed this bike for a female customer and modified the whole ride: Custom gas […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 9, 2015
The Swedish bike brewers of 6/5/4/ Motors have been working on this Ducati 860 GTS and turned it into a real vintage and sporty looking café racer. The Duc had the remarkable 90 degrees V-twin we still see on Ducati’s. Owner Johan Orrestedt found this Ducati in a barn, where it was slowly […]