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. […]

Cool! You’re looking for a café racer building plan? Want to start with your café racer project or maybe you’ve already started? Off course you don’t want your project to end up as an “unfinished project” on a classifieds website… It may be a little cliché but remember: if you’re failing […]

If I think of a Kawasaki ER6N, the first thing that pops up in my mind is “driving lessons”. Second is “entry level”. But what the heck: why not use is as a base for a modern café racer? That’s what the guys from Smoked Garage Customs must have thought. So […]

$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 […]

Donny Ariyanto from Studio Motor is someone who knows how to design and build a custom motorcycle. This is not the first creation that we’ve featured, so please be sure to check out this awesome CB1000 Café Racer and the tiny Yamaha Scorpio Café Racer. This time Donny took the challenge […]

With the awesome creation they’ve showed in Paris some weeks ago (this awesome Kawasaki Vulcan S Café Racer), Oficina MRS got my attention. It was very clear to me that these guys take motorcycle customization very serious, so I took a peek in their portfolio and one bike stood out: This […]

Building your own café racer is beautiful, but for some of us it’s a project without an ending or it’s simply not possible due to other reasons. In that case you can buy a modern café racer or if you don’t want a new bike, you buy a custom (classic) project […]

The builders of Steel Bent Customs get a brief and clear assignment: build me a café racer based on a CB750 with a big USD fork and spoke wheels. All other details and designs where up to the choice of the builders. Nothing to fear when you take a look at […]

Yet another cool Honda CB750 Café Racer by MotoHangar based on a ´75 CB. MotoHangar is specialized in customizing and restoring Japanese classics. For customization, they offer different “packs” to choose from with a fixed price and a standard set of modifications. Summary of the works: A 1975 Honda CB750 featuring, custom […]

Yet another cool Honda CB750 custom. This CB750 Bratstyle one is based on the both loved and hated ’91 Nighthawk by Wesley Hannam from Hong Kong. Wesley teamed up with a mentor: Geoff Giles of ET Custom Motorcycles. This hobby project took almost 2 years and the bike is named “Soichiro”, after the […]

Although we’ve listed the Suzuki GS-series on our list of popular cafe racer base bikes, we don’t see them that much. A lot of brewers pick the Honda CB750 instead of the Suzuki when turning the bike into a café racer. OK, with all the aftermarket parts, proven engine upgrades and […]

Small displacement motorcycles gain in popularity in the custom motorcycle scene (check out this Honda CG125 and this Yamaha Scorpio). In some parts of the world they are simply used to ride cheap and efficient from point A to B. But Buds Motorcycles from Brazil wanted to build something special. The result is […]

The choice for modern classics is not limited to “real” motorcycles: Honda now has a cool retro 50cc concept which fits the label scooter or moped. These cool looking bikes where revealed at the Tokyo Motorshow: the Honda Grom 50 Scramber. Small bikes, based on the legendary Honda Monkey. They came […]

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 […]

The, relatively new, Dutch brewers of Wrench Kings, did an crazy cool job on this Honda GL500 (based on the CX500). With this bike they definitely put The Netherlands on the map in de café racer scene. They took this baby for a complete strip down in their workshop based in Utrecht […]

Dutch brewer Tom Mes from ‘Bold Garage‘ was infected by the classic and custom bike scene due to his friends. He did a great job on this Honda CX500 (check this one from Ironwood Custom Motorcycles too) with some cool custom mods like: Custom subframe Custom seat by RachelSarah (who unfortunately is […]