We’re following up our list of the Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2023 with the most popular café racers we featured this past year, based on traffic and social engagement.
Your visits, likes, and engagement served as votes, meaning these bikes were selected according to their popularity among our readership. This is the most objective ranking we can achieve.
Some of these bikes were darlings of social media, accruing thousands of likes on Facebook and Instagram, while others had “long legs,” continuing to garner search traffic month after month. Some are classic, while others stretch the “café racer” label to its very limit. Some are showstoppers, while others boast performance numbers that would stagger the Ton-Up Boys of the 1950s.
Interestingly, Geoff Hawksley’s ’71 BSA Lightning (“Not a Café Racer“) even made the list. Geoff’s bike, attitude, and riding style actually captures the café racer spirit better than most of today’s café builds — we highly recommend giving his story a read if you missed it.
Without further ado, here are our Top 10 Cafe Racers of 2023, presented in alphabetical order by builder.
Black Cycles Australia: Dyna Super Glide
Chattahoochee Skunkworks: Honda CB400F
Crane Moto: Yamaha RD350
Geoff Hawksley: BSA Lightning
MacVittie Motorcycles: Honda CB350
MCafeGarage: Honda CX650
Motorelic: Honda CB400F
Neverending Cycles: Honda CB750 Super Sport
Radical Speedshop: Moto Guzzi 1700
Versor: Ducati 750SS
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Those are nothing I know someone that has a 6 cylinder Cafe racer one of two in the world someone in Japan owns one and its not in great shape the other is in massachusett and it’s pristine back in 1990 it was worth like 350.000 thousand dollar’s I can’t imagine what it’s worth now 44 year’s later it got to be worth a couple million or maybe a few million futhermore my uncle has a cb750 blue he got brand new
My friend has a 6 cylinder Cafe racer one of two in the world Japan has one okay and the one in massachusett is pristine its probably worth millions
Rich Harwood….capital. , Massachusetts….s ending letter after Indian chief
Great bikes!,rode a few way back