We’re following up our list of the Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2025 with the most popular café racers we featured this past year based on traffic and engagement. Your visits and likes served as […]
Tag: Cafe Racers
Coming in 2026: Triumph Thruxton 400 Café Racer
Modern Café Racer, Scaled Down… With the recent discontinuation of the beloved Thruxton 1200, many riders assumed Triumph’s long-running café racer lineage had reached its conclusion — we among them. However, Triumph just announced that […]
Classy Nuisance: Yamaha Virago 535 Café Racer
Rusten Smith’s Lightweight V-Twin Café Racer… Released in 1988, the Yamaha Virago 535 (XV535) would remain in production for nearly two decades. It was actually the most successful of the Virago V-twins, and remains […]
Soul and Steel: Harley XL1200 Evo Café Racer
American Hot Rod Meets British Café Racer… The Harley-Davidson Sportster has remained one of the motorcycling world’s most popular platforms for customization ever since the release of the original model in 1957. In 1986, the […]
Stronza Bella: Ducati Monster S4
Super Roadster from Never Ending Cycles… In 2001, Ducati unleashed the Monster S4, a weaponized version of the brand’s beloved naked roadster. Gone was the old air-cooled SOHC two-valve twin. In its place went a […]
Paul Smart Tribute: Ducati ST2 “Paolo Accorto”
Paul Smart-Inspired Ducati from Rindperformance… English racer Paul Smart wasn’t well known in international road racing circles until the 1972 Imola 200, where he piloted a Grand Turismo (GT) 750 — the first Ducati with […]
Glory Daze 2025: Cafe Racers & Drag Bikes
We’re back with more coverage from the 2025 Glory Daze Motorcycle Show in Pittsburgh, PA. Organized by Kurt Diserio of Pittsburgh Moto, the show hosted more than 100 bikes of all varieties on the to […]
Poor Man’s Vincent: Yamaha TR1 “Silver Arrow”
The Silver Arrow: Japanese engineering meets English spirit and Italian ingenuity… In 1981, Yamaha released their first “American-style” V-twin cruiser in the form of the XV750 Virago, featuring a new 75-degree V-twin specially developed for […]
Homage to Friendship: Suzuki Katana 1100 Café Racer
Tribute to a Lost Friend from Germany’s Enno Moto… The original Suzuki GSX1100S Katana made quite the splash in 1981. While the radical space-age styling remains one of the most polarizing designs ever to emerge […]
Ride the Lightning: 1700cc Moto Guzzi “Saetta Racer”
940 No More: Radical Speedshop’s “Saetta Racer” 1700… The Moto Guzzi Bellagio 940 appeared in 2007 as the company’s new cruiser, sporting a fuel-injected 935cc Guzzi V-twin with 74 brake horsepower and 57 foot-pounds of […]
