Café Racers are something not everyone will ever own, and that’s okay. These are special bikes, and should be built in a way that shows how special they are. To get the best out of them from a ...

One of the more interesting offshoots of motorcycling and motorcycle building is that of café racers. A café racer is best described as a motorcycle, usually an older bike, that has been modified for ...

A few years ago, if you wanted a good-looking cafe racer–style motorcycle, you either had to find a custom bike shop to build one within your budget, or buy an old, used bike and wrench it yourself.

Ryca Motors co-owners Casey Stevenson (near right) and Ryan Rajewski design and build most of the parts found in their CS-1 café-racer conversion kit. (Photographs by Chris McPherson) Take a look ...

William Tisnes isn’t a professional custom bike builder, nor does he indulge in fully-fledged projects on a regular basis. Hailing from sunny Florida, the man is a huge car-tuning aficionado who ...

Olivier Ortolani is known for building some truly wild machines over at his shop in Nice, France, where he operates as Ortolani Customs. If you’ve somehow not seen his work before, the bike we’re ...

We just reported on the fact that Suzuki filed a patent for a cafe racer, and now it seems that Honda could be working on a similar motorcycle. According to the Japanese publication Young Machine, ...