“A vintage race bike without fairings…but for the street.” This was the vision Jesse Crane (@crane_moto) had for the 1975 Yamaha RD350 café racer you see here. You might remember Jesse from his ’71 Yamaha […]
Tag: Cafe Racers
Bloodred Bombshell: Ducati 750SS Café Racer
Polish Passion: Ducati Cafe Racer from Versor… In 1972, Paul Smart took victory in the first Imola 200 on a Ducati 750, breaking the Italian factory into the big-bike brotherhood of leading European, Japanese, and […]
Joy Machine: Kawasaki ZR-7 Cafe Racer
“I decided to build a café racer with knee-down potential.” Introduced in 1999, the Kawasaki ZR-7 (aka ZR750F) hit the market as an affordable naked bike that harked back to the inline-four UJM machines of […]
Four-Valve Boxer: BMW R100 Café Racer
Devil in the Details: 4V Krauser Airhead from Warkot Motorcycles… We see a lot of customized BMW air-cooled boxers (“Airheads”) coming out of workshops across the world, but this BMW R100 out of Poland’s Warkot […]
For You, Old Fox: Yamaha RD350 Custom
Cus’Tom Motorcycles rebuilds his father’s RD… The Yamaha RD350 was one of the great giant-killers of the two-wheeled world, a two-stroke street machine with a race-bred bloodline. In AMA Class C racing, the RD racers […]
El Monstro: Honda CBX750 Café Racer
NO FEAR: A Cancer Survivor’s Honda Café Racer… There’s no doubt that building a custom bike is one of the best ways to free your mind from the stresses of daily life. It’s a process […]
Sanzoku: Suzuki Bandit 1200 Café Racer
Japanese for Bandit: Moto Milo’s Suzuki GSF1200… The Suzuki Bandit 1200 is one of the most beloved muscle bikes of all time, an air/oil-cooled beast that earned a global following that continues to this day. […]
Triple Time: BMW K75 Custom Roadster
WiMoto’s BMW K75… Introduced in 1986, the BMW K75 was the triple-cylinder 750cc version of the Flying Brick, featuring dual chain-driven overhead camshafts, two-valves per cylinder, liquid cooling, and Bosch LE-Jetronic injection like the […]
Main Force Patrol: Mad Max KZ1000 “Kwaka”
Goose’s “MFP1000” from Unik Edition… Mad Max (1979) remains one of the most influential films of the 20th century, as powerful today as it’s ever been — perhaps because a post-apocalyptic future seems a more […]
Undaunted: “Impávida” BMW K100 Café Racer
K100 Café Racer from Oveja Negra… Surely the BMW Motorrad engineers developing the original K100 in the late 70s and early 80s never expected their four-cylinder “Flying Brick” to become a darling of the custom […]
