Moto Lanna are a parts fabricator based in Chang Mai, Thailand. They recently got in touch regarding a link swap...
Honda Cafe Racer
Honda is currently the largest motorcycle manufacturer in Japan. In the 1960s they became a household name in the USA thanks to their “You meet the nicest people on a Honda” advertising campaign. By the 1980s, they produced upwards of 3 million bikes a year. The Honda CB750 has been credited with being the world’s first superbike and has become the poster child of the modern cafe racer scene.
Honda CB750 “Cold bitch” More home built Cafe Racers sent in by our talented readers. Thanks for sharing your motorcycles...
The 2018 Bike Shed show has been and gone. For those who were lucky enough to attend the London based...
This Honda 1971 CB450 Cafe Racer titled Bonita recently appeared on Cafe Racer and custom motorcycle Blog, Pipeburn. After getting...
Custom motorcycles straight out of the seventies by Bodyline Customs. Long, Low and full of style. ...
Back in 2012, I was contacted by Vaughan in Sydney who had just finished hammering out the bodywork on his...
Since moving to the States from Japan Kiyo has played an important part in the Californian custom scene working on...
Dave Skogerson is a nostalgist. He believes that the motorcycles made by today’s manufacturers have numbed the experience of riding,...
On the dawn of the premiere of Discovery HD Theatres Cafe Racer TV series a production studio called “The Second...
There are only a handful of automotive films that I regard as truly great. Sitting at the top of the...
Bandit films and Fuel Tank TV have released the full version of their profiler video showcasing the work of custom...
A few weeks back I posted the Ellaspede custom Honda CB350 and it went down a treat. Today we this...
Yet another beautiful bike from the incredibly talented Danish Wrenchmonkees. This time is a Honda CB750 Cafe Racer they’ve named...
Rickman Honda CR750 Brothers Derek and Don Rickman established Rickman motorcycles in 1960 from which they manufactured motorcycles up until...
The 1979 Honda CX500 Deluxe underwent modifications to adopt the style of a cafe racer. The fuel tank, headlight nacelle,...
Let’s take a closer look at them… Kawasaki Z900RS Café Kawasaki had already unveiled their stunning new Z900RS at the Tokyo...
Deus ex Machina came on the scene around about the same time I set up Return of the Cafe Racers...
Much like the ASK Motorcycles 2014 Yamaha SR125 ‘Material Woman’, Rad has continued his “very skinny, low and long” theme...
Brisbane based industrial designers, mechanics and tinkerers Steve Barry and Leo Yip are the driving force behind Ellaspede custom motorcycles...
It’s Monday and the motorbikes parked out the front feeling neglected. All I want to do is ride....
Honda’s journey into the world of 90-degree v-twins may have only be a short one, but their CX500 still gains...
The Honda CB400 Super Four is the embodiment of Universal Japanese Motorcycle Design. It’s a general-purpose standard motorcycle built to...
“I have a habit of going cheap at the start of a project and then blowing it out of proportion.”...
The motorcycle above it’s a custom Kawasaki Ninja 250r from Donny in Jakarta, Indonesia. The time it takes to build...
Some kids grow up around cars and bikes. Sofi Tsingos grew up literally stuck to them. “Dad used to own...
Building one of the only Cafe Racers in your country is no mean feat, especially when you live in a...
Straight from one end of Honda’s CB range to the other. Yesterday it was a CB125 Cafe Racer from the...
Former world champion racer ‘Fast’ Freddie Spencer was a force to be reckoned. Spencer’s professional racing career started in 1978...
“We find insurmountable joy in taking a bike that has long since past its last mile and reviving it to...
After acquiring the poor condition Bol D’Or in January of 2015 the brothers spent 2 months planning the build of...
I will be the first to admit I’m hopelessly nostalgic. So when I come across a story of a father...
Sean of Roc City Cafe Racers in Rochester, NY has just finishing putting together this very tidy Honda CB350 coined...
Some of the best stories have the most humble and unexpected beginnings. Little did Zane, Adam and Jake English of...
We have been receiving some stunning Cafe Racers from our readers. If you have a Cafe Racer you’ve built in...
What is it about Benjie’s Cafe Racer parts that make every bike their fitted to look stunning? These two Honda...
Late in 2019 three friends in the Spanish town of Almoradí joined forces to launch Plus 3 Motors. Each with...
I wonder if it goes as hard as it sounds?...
“My bike, Paula Dean, was based on a ’76 Honda CB550k that cost us $500 in May of 2015. Work...
“It is a Honda XLR250R that has been in the works for about 3 years now,” says Rad. “I have...
As far as timeframes go David says the Ad Hoc CB750 has been a hard one to wrap up. “Due...
“My name is Nils J. Ksienzyk and I’m a 28 year old bike builder from Germany. From the age of...
No one is ever going to stand in front of a Honda NX650 Dominator and exclaim “look at the clean...
Honda’s Moto Guzzi-Esque CX500 has been enjoying a huge resurgence in the custom scene. It seems that ever since the...
What once was old is new again. Rather than looking for new materials to shape the bodywork of...
I’ve been a huge fan of Spanish photographic rockstar Kristina Fender for some time. Not only does she take a...
The Honda was built by Andy Megerle, a German car enthusiast who’s had his heart set on building this Honda...
This little beauty of a bike from Simon and Singapore. He built the bike in the car park outside his...
When I was a kid I thought being a game designer would be just as cool, and perhaps even cooler,...
Supercharged and Nitrous Oxide aren’t words you often hear muttered by builders of Cafe Racers when they are running off...
Why is it that when you really want to focus on something life throws a constant stream of distractions at...
At first glance you could mistakably name this bikes donor as a CX500, which is wrong, but not far off....
Jas Babalija is a mechanical engineer and Automotive Vehicle Examiner in Melbourne, Australia. For years his work focused on the...
Many of 2020s most significant motorcycle shows have been cancelled due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Amongst them was the...
Last year the Cafe Racer scene was buzzing with the news that Dime City Cycles were building a custom motorcycle...
If you don’t already have Le Container in your bookmarks or on your Blog roll you soon will. This is...
Mark Twain once postulated, “There is no such thing as a new idea“. This can definitely be said of the...
I’m back on the W650 again! Got loads of time in the saddle this weekend, but it’s never enough!...
One of Edi’s latest achievements is this 1981 Honda CB900 cafe racer. It’s one of two new builds to roll...
Thankfully the F2’s engine was its saving grace. Even though the bike used a detuned version of Honda’s air-cooled inline...
It’s been a while since I featured anything from BCR (Benjie’s Cafe Racers) on the blog but when I came...
Alchemy Motorcycles is a tidy little shop that makes tidy little bikes. Based out of downtown San Diego, Michael Valle...
During the sports bike boom of the 1980s Japanese motorcycle manufacturers were in their prime. In 1982 Honda released a...
Dual Sport motorcycles have very different proportions to your average cafe racer, so Isidore set about salvaging and retro-fitting the...
The ‘Roadrunner’ concept motorcycle was developed as a final project out of university. Suhann’s passion for motorcycles meant it was...
Since I recently paid a visit to Deus Ex Machina in Sydney I thought it pertinent to feature one of...
“The Natural” built by Portland based workshop The Tarantulas. It’s a bike that’s had plenty of mentions around here but...
Back in 2007 I came across a Honda Dream on display in a motorcycle store in Leederville, Western Australia. I...
By the early 2000s Honda had diluted its once iconic CB series so much that any connection to the original...
Huge events like Verona’s Motobike Expo offer custom builders the opportunity to try something different. After all, how else are...
The Honda CB750 was for many years the poster child of the “new wave” cafe racer scene. These days however...
When someone says they’ve been bitten by the motorcycle bug they usually mean that they have developed an obsession with...
Someone wittier than me once said “It’s more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than to ride a fast...
In Singapore, you can be sentenced to jail for selling chewing gum… imagine what they do to people whose exhaust...
Daryl Villanueva, the main man behind Bandit9 got in touch to tell us about this exclusive limited edition machine. “It’s...
Ironically, this journey began with a puncture. A nail to the rear tire a few weeks into owning my Honda...
Earning a customer’s trust is worth more to a custom workshop than simply getting customers in the door. Without trust,...
As Sofi explains it… “This Honda CB450 was brought to us earlier this year after an interesting encounter. A couple...
We’ve always found video to be one of the most inspiring forms of media. Over the years we’ve seen some...
After 2 years of running his business after hours, Wido managed to turn Wimoto into his full-time career and now, 2.5...
The Death Machines of London (aka DMOL) never do things by halves. Their workshop has produced some of the most...
Established in 2006 the 7Seven Custom workshop in Slovenia is all too familiar with the late model CB750’s. Back...
Throughout the late eighties and early nineties, 600cc sportbikes dominated the sales charts of Japan’s big 4 manufacturers. Leading the...
The decision whether to customize a pre-eighties Honda CB750 or not is becoming a tough one to make. There was...
We’ve all seen the listings on eBay. “Perfect project bike”, “Needs some attention”, “It’s all there, just requires reassembling!”. The...
Ahh Google Translate, how I love your ability to allow me to converse with people whose native tongue is 100% indecipherable to me! Which...
We just received images of this outstanding 1974 Honda CB750 Cafe Racer from photographer Phil Foss. The bike was put...
I wasn’t able to make it along to the event last weekend at Deus Ex Machina in Camperdown, Sydney and...
We just received this great set of photos from Chin on the Tank. They feature Nina keeping it real on...
If you saw my post recently about the Tidy Triumph Bobber I’m sure you’d like to see more about the...
The 1982 Honda CB900F underwent a café racer-inspired modification, featuring various enhancements. These include a solo bump seat, clip-on handlebars,...
Like most Swedes Oscar started his 2 wheeled life on a moped at age 15. After spending a few years...
Arxaperiment designer Ndikol started his first build in 2011 with some guidance from a local mechanic and metalworker. Using his...
“My bike is a 1976 Honda CB750K6. I have been working on it on and off for about a year...
The Honda Cafe Racer which started out as a rather sad looking scrapyard find, underwent a ground up custom rebuild...
The Honda CB400 Super Four is a run of the mill naked UJM which first hit the streets back in...
Scales Studio is 2 man workshop that specialises in fabrication work and high-end paint. Based in Houston, Texas their list...
Earlier this month I ventured to Indonesia with Luke from Fuel Tank. This was our 5th year attending the Kustomfest...
Thanks to a huge increase in the popularity of the custom motorcycle scene many hobby builders have turned a passion...
Built by Preachers Hot Rod Cycle Design in 2012, this 1971 Honda CB750 appeared on four episodes of the television...