Horizontal 923: Le Mans II Café Racer from Vienna’s horizontal moto… Lino Tonti was an Italian motorcycle engineer who developed sport and racing bikes for such companies as Aermacchi, Benelli, Bianchi, F.B. Mondial, and […]
Tag: Cafe Racers
Dinostyle Honda CX500 Custom Roadster
Custom CX500 from Dinostyle Garage… We’re nearing 50 years since the Honda CX500 was introduced. Who expected this strange middleweight V-twin street bike, which earned the nickname “plastic maggot” during its heyday, would become […]
Black Bullet: Royal Enfield Bullet 500 Café Racer
Prize-Winning “Black Bullet” from Nicolas Baux of MCNC… The Royal Enfield Bullet is nearing a century of continuous production — the longest of any motorcycle model in history. Introduced in 1932, the four-stroke single-cylinder machine […]
Night Fury: Honda CB750 Neo Café Racer
GIT Night Fury 750 from Goldie Innotech Designs… In The Batman (2022) starring Robert Pattinson as the masked avenger of Gotham, a Honda CB-based “Drifter” bike serves as Bruce Wayne’s main mode of transportation […]
Stay Gold: Honda GL1200 Goldwing Café Racer
Aspencade to Café: Black Cycles Australia’s Goldwing Cafe Racer… Today we think of the Honda Goldwing as the quintessential big touring bike — a roadgoing La-Z-Boy loaded with creature comforts of every kind, capable of […]
Top 10 Café Racers of 2024
We’re following up our list of the Top 10 Custom Motorcycles of 2024 with the most popular café racers we featured this past year, based on traffic and social engagement. Your visits, likes, and engagement […]
Vintage CB-R: Honda CB500/550 Café Racer
15th Anniversary Build: Retrofitted CB500 from Cafe Cycles… In 1969, the Honda CB750 howled onto the scene as the fastest and most sophisticated motorcycle ever to come out of Japan…and for a price that undercut […]
Sixty2 Street Racer: Ducati Scrambler 400 Custom
399cc L-twin Ducati from Hardheads Motostudio… The Ducati Scrambler is one of the major success stories in recent motorcycling history. Much like the Monster several decades earlier, the Scrambler aimed for mechanical simplicity and […]
The DocR: Ducati 996 Café Racer
A Real Monster: Dan Benson’s Ducati 996SPS Café… We’ve talked about how certain motorcycles or marques seem to imprint themselves on a young motorcyclist. For Dan Benson of Newport, Rhode Island, there was one […]
HRC Eurosport: Honda CX650E Café Racer
From Aircraft Carrier to Café Racer: A “Cus’Tom Motorcycle” from France… The CX series was quite the departure for Honda. The first prototype of the CX V-twin was built as early as 1973, designed to […]
