1/8-mile Ducati Sprint Racer from Mike Matamorr… Our friends at Rocket Race Club have continued in the tradition of the old Sultans of Sprint series, bringing together 1/8-mile sprint racers to run at high-profile […]
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Neo-Retro Nébula: BMW R100 Café Racer
For a man who only works on his builds three days per week, Jérémie Duchampt of Jerem Motorcycles consistently turns out some of the most well-executed projects on the planet. The Frenchman began his bike-building […]
Senna Superbike: Honda CB1000 Super Four
CB1000 Big One from Cus’Tom Motorcycle… Over the years, motorcycle culture has been blessed with a handful of hilarious and highly entertaining comic strips and series. In English, we’ve had everything from Ogri to Andy […]
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 […]
Torakusu XT: Yamaha XT500 Street Tracker
Jean-Michel Atlan’s street tracker, reimagined 40 years later… In 1877, Japanese entrepreneur Torakusu Yamaha, the third son of a samurai of the Kishu-Tokugawa family, founded Nippon Gakki Company in order to manufacturer reed organs. Torakusu’s […]
Retro Roadsters: Triumph “Ride and Chrome” Twins
FCR Original’s Triumph Speed Twin and T120 Bonneville… These days, the café racers and scramblers of the world seem to get the lion’s share of the limelight, but the roadster remains one of the most […]
Ducati ST3 Café Racer
Modern Ducati Café Racer from Jerem Motorcycles… In 2003, Ducati gave their sport touring series a kick in the pants with the introduction of the ST3, which boasted a new and unique three-valve L-twin […]
Streetfighting Machine: Buell XB12 Custom
Matao Buell: From Bike Shed London to Wheels & Waves… In 2002, Buell Motorcycles stopped production of their tube-framed bikes and introduced a new set of bikes, the Firebolt XB9R / XB12R and Lightning XB9S […]
Super 6 II: Honda CBX Café Racer
Lys Motorcycles builds a six-cylinder café racer… For the 1979 model year, ten years after the introduction of the revolutionary CB750, Honda released another two-wheeled marvel of engineering, the CBX1000 Super Sport. The mighty CBX […]
Modern Super Sport: Ducati 749 Café Racer
Ducati “749SS” by Jerem Motorcycles… Introduced in 2003, the Ducati 749 was the middleweight SuperSport version of the Ducati 999 superbike — one of the most polarizing and controversial designs of the modern era. Though […]
