Oh yes: the cafe racer scene is booming! Last week we’ve posted our modern cafe racer top 5, but now we have a problem since Triumph announced the complete new Triumph Thruxton R. This is a serious candidate for becoming number 1 in that list. Triumph revealed a whole new line of modern […]

What are your first thoughts when thinking of Sweden? I know, it has something to do with safe cars and furniture… But there is more than that! The guys from Rewheeled are building awesome custom bikes. Just like this amazing Honda CB750 Cafe Racer. They are inspired by the design of the […]

The Yamaha Virago is a very popular base bike for a cafe racer project. The creator of this bike, David Bailey, not only wanted a “head turner” but also a bike which can be ridden daily. He found a XV920 in poor state and took it under his wings. He completely […]

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 […]

The UK based bike brewers from Auto Fabrica like things clean and simple. So when building a cafe racer, they go down to the bare essentials. The design task for this Yamaha SR500 was also simple: create a one-off bike with a timeless appearance. The result is a slick and simple looking Yamaha […]

When I think of a café racer I usually think of a custom bike based on one of these models. The Yamaha Scorpio is not on that list. It’s actually far away from it. This commuter-oriented motorcycle is not your typical pick when you want to build a café racer. But […]

If you take a look at the collection of South Garage Motorcycles you’ll see that these guys have a sharp eye for detail. It’s not surprising that they are located in the fashion capital of Europe (and maybe the world): Milano. In their small shop they offer complete custom bikes an custom built […]

It’s been almost 2 weeks now since the amazing Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride 2015 took place all over the world. More than 37,000 gentlemen (and gentle-girls) collected over 2.2 million US dollars for fighting prostate cancer. There are a lot of cool images and videos around and I wanted to share a small […]

The Yamaha Virago is a great platform for building a café racer. It’s massive V-twin and great proportions makes it a love for the eye when stripped down to it’s bare essentials. I had to share this great peace of work By Diogo Oliveira. I couldn’t find any specs of it, so […]

That the Honda CX500 is gaining popularity in the café racer scene is obvious. We see a lot of cool customized “poor mens Guzzi’s, these days. Check out this one, and this one, and this one. This creation is from Wrench ‘n Wheels, based in Portugal, and they call it “Wind […]

A random bike we found on Facebook by Italian brewers Simone Conti Motorcycles (SCM). They customized a Buell XB12 into this awesome ride. Too bad we couldn’t find any specs or list of mods, but we can see that they’ve put a lot of effort in this bike. Like the design […]

That Honda is a popular pick for custom bike projects is not new. But normally we see a lot of CB’s and CX’s. This bike by Strange Coast Moto is something else. First of all: it’s a Honda VT500, we don’t see them often. Second: it looks awesome, detailed, fast and mean. […]

The Honda CX500 or “poor men’s Guzzi” is getting more and more popular in the custom bike scene. Just as the Honda CB-series, there known for their great reliability and nice proportions. The big difference is that the Honda CX500 has a lovely and high torque, water cooled 2 cylinder engine with […]

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 […]

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 […]

California based bike brewer Dustin Kott from Kott Motorcycles loves to build project for customers, but sometimes he makes time to build a bike for his own. The result is this beautiful Honda CB750 Naked Racer. PS. the bike got featured on Velocity channels Naked Speed and quickly transferred to one of Kott’s […]