- By Ron BetistPublished On: January 4, 2016
The BMW R NineT keeps attracting custom bike builders. No news at all, since it was build as a modern café racer and comes with an extensive list of aftermarket parts. Big brands like Rizoma have an entire catalogue, just for the R NineT. This brew comes from Switzerland and is created by […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 15, 2015
The BMW R NineT is real modern café racer. From day one it’s meant to be customized. And why not? It’s a great bike with a powerful engine and a wide range of custom, aftermarket, bolt on parts. And if you say custom and aftermarket parts, one name pops up: Rizoma. So […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 14, 2015
[su_button url=”https://bikebrewers.com/9-best-custom-bmw-r-nine-t/” style=”flat” size=”5″ wide=”no” center=”yes” icon=”icon: mail-forward”]The 9 Best BMW R nineT’s[/su_button] The boys from Lucky Custom from Argentina sure know how to build a custom motorcycle. I’ve recently featured one of their latest builds, a slick CB550 Café Racer. Digging into their impressive list of creations, I’ve stumbled upon this […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 11, 2015
The BMW R80(rt) was a common used police (or better “polizei”) bike for the German law enforcers in the 80’s and 90’s. MotoAlex from Germany found two of them and decided to turn these twins into café racers. There are not many specs revealed yet, but we can see that these guys made […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: December 1, 2015
Diamond Atelier is know for their clear vision on custom motorcycles and created some real masterpieces (like this BMW R100R we’ve featured earlier). Build number 5 (codename DA5) is based on a ’92 Suzuki DR650, which was the daily ride of co-founder Tom Konecny. The Suzuki DR650 is a real dirt bike […]
- 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: September 30, 2015
Marcin & Marcin from Ratbikes did an awesome job on this Honda CB350 Café Racer, so we kept a close eye on them. They took this BMW R65 LS a part and turned it into a great custom ride. It’s hard to recognize the original ride in this one, and we […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: September 23, 2015
Yes, we also like LISTS! Especially when it comes to café racer bikes. So here’s a list of the 17 best café racer bikes you can grab for building a café racer. Please note: this is a list of vintage motorcycles, because we like the old timers best: All Honda CB-series from […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 31, 2015
The BMW R nineT is supposed to be a litte ‘caferacerish’ by itself, but Shiro Nakajima from 46Works didn’t find that enough so he has built his own concept of this BMW R nineT. An incredible creation! This bike is also listed in our 9 best custom BMW R nine T‘s. Check also this walk […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: August 20, 2015
Polish brewers Marcin & Marcin from Ratbikes did a great job on this Honda CB350 Café Racer. Their passion for rebuilding 60’s and 70’s motorcycle classics started with an old and rusty ’74 BMW R60 / 6 which they found in an old barn and transformed in their very first custom bike. […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 27, 2015
A café racer project all starts with one simple question: which bike should I use as a donor / base motor? In this post we list some of the most popular models which are very suitable to turn into a café racer and are affordable for the most of us. Classic icons […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: July 20, 2015
A Cafe Racer motorcycle is a customized motorcycle based on an existing model or one that has been specifically built from scratch to mirror the style and feel. The goal is to make the bike more lightweight, stripping the bike down to its bare essentials, to give it better handling and […]
- By Ron BetistPublished On: March 31, 2016
A near perfect Honda GL500 café racer, an even brutal as rare Benelli streetfighter, a cool concept bike from Honda, a sexy BMW R80 from Holland, another BMW café racer based on a R100 and as a bonus something very special based on a Belgian FN (a bike which I actually own!). […]
- By Casper van der VenPublished On: January 12, 2024
- By Jaco ZijlstraPublished On: April 11, 2023
‘Retrorides By Lourenço’, who have a 30-year history of designing and building award-winning custom motorcycles, have decided to follow their desire to play their part in creating a cleaner and smarter future for humanity, and founded RTR Electric motorcycles. Their first model, the 799e, is an electric scrambler targeted at urban use. Its design is inspired by the iconic Scramblers of the 1970s - and it looks the part!
- By Jaco ZijlstraPublished On: December 17, 2022
They say it’s the largest fair for custom bikes in Europe, and after visiting the Custom bike-show in Bad Salzuflen the first weekend of December, I’d say they are right! As you can expect from our German friends it is well organized, from parking to lay out of the halls to […]