As Seen at The Bike Shed: Makai Wink’s Garage-Built Monoshock Sportster… In 1998, Harley-Davidson introduced the XL53C Sportster, a “Custom” variant of the 883 Sportster designed for the European market. Named for the 53 cubic-inch […]
Tag: Cafe Racers
Red Devil: Moto Guzzi V7 Café Racer
The Bike Guzzi Should’ve Built: Shaun Boulter’s Le Mans-Style V7… In the last two decades, there’s been a huge upswell of interest in retro-style bikes that bring classic styling from the 60s and 70s to […]
Little Italian Rocket: Moto Guzzi V50 II “Saga Racer”
Lightweight Guzzi 500 Café Racer from Revel Customs… In the mid 70s, Moto Guzzi decided they needed to add a midsize bike to their lineup. The resulting machine, the V50 II, featured a Tonti frame […]
Straight Fazer: Yamaha Fazer 600 “Blackjack”
Reborn Fazer 600 from Blackout Custom Design… The Yamaha FZS600 Fazer — aka the Fazer 600 — was revealed to the public at the 1997 Paris Auto Show. The 599cc 16-valve 95-bhp inline-four came […]
The Onyx: Norton-Harley “Norley”
Cédric Camiade’s Harley-powered Featherbed… When Norton introduced the featherbed frame in 1950, it quickly earned a reputation among circuit and street racers as the best handling chassis on the market. The design originated with brothers […]
Soul of a Sprinter: Triumph Trident 660 RS Café Racer
From FCR Original: Triple-Cylinder Triumph Café Racer… Introduced in 2020, the Triumph Trident 660 is a middleweight naked bike / roadster with an 80-bhp triple born from the Daytona 675 supersport engine. The engine […]
One Moto Show 2025: Best Cafe Racers & More!
The One Moto Show bills itself as “the world’s largest, best-known, and most fun custom motorcycle show in the universe” — and we can’t disagree. Hosted by the good folks of Portland’s See See Motorcycles, […]
50th Anniversary 400 Four: Honda CB400F Resto
From The Chattahoochee Skunkworks: Tastefully Modified Honda 400 Four… When the Honda CB350F appeared in 1972, it was the smallest-displacement four-cylinder motorcycle ever produced. While it was a neat engineering exercise that showed off Honda’s […]
Handbuilt Show 2025: Best Café / Road Racers
The last weekend in March marked not just the running of the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin, Texas, but also the 2025 Handbuilt Motorcycle Show — simply one of the very best […]
Mistress of the Dark: “Elvira” BMW R100/7 Café Racer
From Wolfsmiths: Slash 7 Tribute to an 80s Hot Rod… If there’s one thing we love, it’s hearing stories of bikes that guys hot-rodded back in the day when they weren’t vintage, but of […]
