- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 7, 2016
Usually when I feature a bike from South America it’s a small sized machine (like this cool Yamaha RD135 cafe racer) but today there’s a real beast from Brazil: a Honda CBX750 Cafe Racer, built by a small workshop called Zucconi Projetos. The first thing that stands out are are the main […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: November 2, 2016
I have to admit: I’m always a bit proud if a cool custom motorcycle is built in Holland. There is a lot going on in the Dutch scene and it seems that the overall build quality is getting better and better. This machine is built by 14Cycles, a small workshop that emerged […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: October 24, 2016
With a background in the aviation industry and a boyhood passion for custom wheels, the guys from Brogue Motorcycles know what craftsmanship is. Not long ago they’ve started their own shop and this 1982 Honda CB750 is their latest build, with a full list of modifications! Engine Low mileage donor engine Adjusted valves – […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: October 10, 2016
The Honda CB is from day one a very popular bike for cafe racer builders. The bikes are reliable, have great proportions, are easy to work on, have a massive after market and are pretty easy to find since Honda produced tons of them. The CB-series contain an extensive list of models, from […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: October 3, 2016
I’m always happy to see creations from The Netherlands, and with all the talent lined up, we can expect some real cool machines the coming time. We’ve seen some amazing bikes from workshops like Wimoto, Ironwood Custom Motorcycles and Wrench Kings. This Honda CB750 Super Sport Café Racer comes from the […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 10, 2016
This creation might look a little bit odd, but I thought it was worth sharing with you. What this is? Well, it’s a Honda Zoomer Cafe Racer, or at least inspired by a cafe racer. Never heard of the Honda Zoomer, or Zoomer X? It’s one of those machines built for a […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 2, 2016
The Honda CBX was the flagship bike of Honda during 1978 to 1982 and has a 1047cc six cylinder engine that puts out an impressive 105hp. At today’s standards, that’s pretty descent, but remember that this is more than 35 years ago! The high RPM six inline produced an impressive sound […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: June 9, 2016
Unless the fact that I’ve listed the Honda CB as one of the best cafe racer base bikes, it was months ago since I’ve featured one here. So I was glad that I found a great CB build. This CB550 Bratstyle is built bij Jerikan Motorcycles from Nice in France. Honda CB550 […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: April 8, 2016
To be honest: I personally prefer the bigger displacement bikes and I always say that “real” motorcycles begin at 500cc. But that doesn’t say that smaller bikes can be cool and fun too! Last months several small sized bikes got featured here like: a Yamaha RD135 Café Racer, a custom Kawasaki Estrella 250 and […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: March 22, 2016
The Honda CB750 is also known as the worlds first superbike. It’s first version came out in 1969 and Honda released tons of models up to 2003. This beautiful creation is the Ad Hoc #15, based on a 1995 Honda CB750 SF. David Gonzalez, owner of Ad Hoc, started in 2012 and this […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 29, 2016
The shortest month of the year is behind us, days here in Holland are getting longer, the sun becomes stronger and we can almost take out our rides without freezing off… For this month we’ve also made a selection of, in our opinion, the best custom motorcycles around the web. This […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: February 11, 2016
Grzegorz Korczak from Poland is the owner of Unikat and he builds custom motorcycles on behalf of his customers. The owner of this Honda CB550, Pascal, a Frenchmen who now lives in Poland, had a clear description: build me a café racer and use some of the leather of an old Mercedes SL300. […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 29, 2016
$350 dollar for the base bike, or better: frame. And parts from 9 other bikes to create this cool custom Honda CX500. Josh Deardorff always dreamed of his own café racer, so he decided to build one. No experience at all, but almost everything is done by himself. Last year Josh […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 20, 2016
CX500 Café Racer by Sacha Lakic Unless the fact that we’ve chosen Sacha Lakic’s Honda CX500 Café Racer as the most beautiful custom motorcycle of 2015, and the fact that we’ve seen a lot of cool custom CX500’s last year, it’s been a while since we’ve posted one. Luckily we did not […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 19, 2016
One of the reasons to start with BikeBrewers is to get and give inspiration on building custom motorcycles. One of our Dutch readers, Oz, got his hands on a ’79 Honda CB550 and turned it into a one-off machine: Oz takes his hobby very serious and overhauled the complete motorcycle. Every […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 15, 2016
We know Ed Turner from his amazing Custom Honda CX500 “Japan Style” he built in 2015 (check it out here). This cool bike was all over the web and social media and gained a lot of positive feedback. This time, Ed built a cool Honda Scrambler, based on a parallel CB125 K5 […]