Yamaha RD400 Cafe Racer
Cafe Racer TV approached both Lossa Engineering and Garage Company before filming season 2 and asked the well-known custom bike builders to collaborate on…
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Yamaha XS650 Café Racer by Chappell Customs
The Yamaha XS650 is a bike that gets a lot of love on the custom motorcycle scene, the parallel twin is renowned for reliability and a solid power to weight ratio and so it seems a little strange that most of the customs based on the model have been hardtail chopper/bobbers rather than café racers or flat trackers.
Yamaha XS500 by Karnage Kustoms
The team at Karnage Kustoms pulled the XS500 to pieces and went over each element, reducing weight and tossing unnecessary elements, the bike is fitted with R-1 rear sets, a stack of cafe racer equipment from Dime City Cycles, the carburettors have been rebuilt and the engine has been thoroughly sorted.
Moto Guzzi by Matt Machine
This Le Mans Moto Guzzi is quite easily one of the most famous Guzzi cafe racers in the world, it was released to the public last April to rapturous global applause and now, a year later, Matt has decided to list the bike for sale.
KaffeeMaschine 5 Moto Guzzi
The Moto Guzzi based KaffeeMaschine 5 is one of those cafe racers that comes along every now and then and totally lights up the motosphere, KaffeeMaschine 5 has so far been featured on Pipeburn, Southsiders MC, Design Inspiration and The Cafe Racer Cult, not to mention a slew of other more obscure sites.
Harley Café Racer
This Harley Café Racer by Italian garage Passion 4 Custom is a great example of what can be achieved with a v-twin and a little patience, the style of the finished bike is a little reminiscent of Shinya Kimura’s work although it’s also quite distinctly Italian.
2SRD by Analog Motorcycles
The 2SRD is a unique take on the classic Yamaha RD350 although with the amount of work and the sheer number of major changes,…
Kawsaki KZ1000 Cafe Racer
One of my favourite things is to discover men like Albert “The Chief” Hurt, he’s a retired Coast Guard officer who lives in Spokane and…
Honda CB400T Café Racer
Steel Bent Customs based out of Tampa, Florida, build some of the most approachable and affordable café racers you’ll find anywhere in the USA. This is their latest creation, it started life as a stock Honda CB400T however she now has the rear end of a CB650 and the front end of a CB550…
1974 Honda CL360
This great little 1974 Honda CL360 Café Racer is another in the recent crop of outstanding motorcycles to pop up on eBay under the “vintage” tag, the current owner is also the builder and by the sounds of things, he’s gone all out and created an almost perfect around-town-belter.
Honda CB350F-CB400F Café Racer
This unique café racer is a hybrid of sorts, not the Priusy kind of hybrid that smells like lentils, but a hybrid in the…
Lunacy by Garage Project Motorcycles
Garage Project Motorcycles is a fantastic Perth based custom motorcycle garage run by a chap named Rex, they turn out custom café racers with a healthy dose of approachability and clean, aesthetically pleasing design.