Arxaperiment designer Ndikol started his first build in 2011 with some guidance from a local mechanic and metalworker. Using his...
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.
I love Fridays. As beer o’clock draws closer (4pm) my concentration disintegrates and I begin my weekly ritual of trawling...
Jeremy Bumpus owns ‘The Hot Rod Shop’ in Corinth, Mississippi, and co-hosts Motortrend’s CarFix series. Alongside fellow host Bryan Fuller...
California based Airtech Streamlining are manufacturers of “the world’s largest selection of motorcycle fairings and bodywork”, producing parts for land...
The Wrenchmonkees have just won themselves a trophy without even trying! The boys took one of their newest builds, a...
Automotive manufacturers have been using wood in their cars for more than a century. In the twenties, entire car bodies...
Rob Chappell of Canada’s ‘Origin8or’ workshop is no stranger to customising Honda’s CB900F. A few years back he built one...
For anyone who enjoys tinkering with motorcycles, there will come a day when you’ll need to invest in some real...
Right now Australia’s most prolific custom builder would have to be Tom John of the Gold Coast based workshop, Purpose...
When Honda finally joined the new wave modern retro movement with the CB1000R Neo Sports Cafe we knew it was...
I never get tired of seeing Honda CB750‘s converted into Cafe Racers. Not only is the CB750 a magnificent base...
Marco, a tattooist from Toulouse France well aware of the risks when buying a secondhand motorcycle. Since his teenage years...
October! What the hell happened to September!? More amazing home built Cafe Racers from our readers. This time round it’s...
For the US release of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, actress Rooney Mara has done away with...
This Honda GB400TT is a JDM-exclusive motorcycle that draws inspiration from the iconic British bikes that competed in the renowned...
As you can imagine I spend a lot of time staring at photos of custom motorcycles. I don’t know if...
Andy Megerle’s CB750 cafe racer project was a rollercoaster ride of challenges and setbacks. In the end, he managed to...
Starting life as a 1989 Honda CG125, the “De Palma 05” is the latest machine to roll out of their...
When it comes to motorcycles, there are certain makes and models that can work their way under your skin. Be...
After months of hard work and seemingly endless nights of writing, issue 2 of Tank Moto is ! Just like...
Along with the shots of the fairing Junior also sent a couple of detail images to reveal even more...
This project centers on a 1980 Honda CX-500 that has been fully rebuilt into a cafe racer. The builder focused on...
Is there such a thing as a factory built cafe racer? If you ask a purist they’ll tell you no...
Remember the first time you swung a leg over a bike? Mathias Wiese does. At the tender age of eight,...
The cafe racer you see here was built over a four-year period by Wisconsin Honda specialist Jeff Stephens at Godffery’s...
This 1990 Honda GB500 Cafe Racer was the pioneering retro bike from a Japanese manufacturer, a significant moment in automotive...
Tom Gilroy and his Purpose Built Moto workshop on Australia’s Gold Coast have risen through the ranks to become one...
Despite Honda’s categorisation, we think the CB1000R Neo-Sports Cafe is anything but standard. With 143bhp on tap and radical neo-retro...
I wasn’t able to make it along to the event last weekend at Deus Ex Machina in Camperdown, Sydney and...
“I’m a carpenter by trade and have always worked with my hands. I started riding a motorbike in March 2014...
Daryl Villanueva, the main man behind Bandit9 got in touch to tell us about this exclusive limited edition machine. “It’s...
The Honda CB400 Super Four is the embodiment of Universal Japanese Motorcycle Design. It’s a general-purpose standard motorcycle built to...
No more riding for me until the new year! (no this isn’t my bike…I wish!) My two wheel fix will...
Let’s take a closer look at them… Kawasaki Z900RS Café Kawasaki had already unveiled their stunning new Z900RS at the Tokyo...
Some of the best stories have the most humble and unexpected beginnings. Little did Zane, Adam and Jake English of...
“My very first motorcycle was a 50cc Honda Cub. It was more of a scooter but it didn’t matter. My...
Makes me want to tear down the freeway tonight… lossaengineering.com...
Well, that wraps up yet another year of amazing cafe racer builds from custom workshops and backyard builders around the...
Throughout the late eighties and early nineties, 600cc sportbikes dominated the sales charts of Japan’s big 4 manufacturers. Leading the...
Spain’s Dragon’s Motorcycles created a massive stir with just one build. Their debut creation, a glorious six-cylinder BMW KL1100LT trimmed...
Since moving to the States from Japan Kiyo has played an important part in the Californian custom scene working on...
In recent years we’ve seen a spate of new motorcycles inspired by classic bikes. Models like the Kawasaki Z900RS and...
Having to endure cancer is something we all dread. Without having experienced it, it’s hard to imagine the physical and...
Chris, the owner of this Honda CX500 Cafe Racer built the bike after deciding it was time to have...
We knew that this Honda project would be a challenge for us. When we received the motorcycle it was almost completely disassembled....
Much like the ASK Motorcycles 2014 Yamaha SR125 ‘Material Woman’, Rad has continued his “very skinny, low and long” theme...
When someone says they’ve been bitten by the motorcycle bug they usually mean that they have developed an obsession with...
“It started out as a 1969 (70?) Honda CB350. It had the upswept CL pipes on it but the engine...
The CB360, a successor to Honda’s renowned CB350, boasted a slightly larger engine and was equipped with a 6-speed transmission....
The sale came about after Flo was approached by Evy and Andy of Hermanus workshop in Bruges, Belgium. After attending...
Once upon a time, there were two brothers, Marc and Phillip. They grew up doing all the things two brothers...
Take two Honda 360’s. Rebuild motor, brakes, forks, carbs, swingarm with combination of parts from two said bikes. Custom...
After recently featuring AdHoc’s 3rd Cafe Racer build it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t take a quick look back...
Dave Skogerson is a nostalgist. He believes that the motorcycles made by today’s manufacturers have numbed the experience of riding,...
An unsavoury nickname can be hard to shake. After its release in the late seventies, the Honda CX500 was rather...
With a life long passion for bikes and an endless desire to create custom motorcycles using “hand made” techniques, Oficina...
The results are out and the winners have been announced but what bikes were our favourite custom motorcycles from the...
Ironically, this journey began with a puncture. A nail to the rear tire a few weeks into owning my Honda...
Back in 2012, I was contacted by Vaughan in Sydney who had just finished hammering out the bodywork on his...
These Honda CB 750 Cafe Racers were built by Garage Company. I’m not sold on the rainbow paint on the...
Andy who is an Architectural Draftsperson by trade, built Express Post to compete in an annual event organised by a group of...
Living with a classic bike is like being in a relationship. If you’re not prepared to make compromises it’ll never...
In 2012 Scott Halbleid left his career as a graphic designer to focus his efforts on building custom motorcycles. As...
Kristy Nadine is a busy lady. When she’s not hunched over a customer tattooing their skin you’ll find her sketching...
The project and the donor bike arrived at the Kerkus workshop via Singapore. After an artist from the Lion City...
The Honda Cafe Racer which started out as a rather sad looking scrapyard find, underwent a ground up custom rebuild...
It’s no walk in the park for a custom workshop to stay fresh and original. Constantly pushing boundaries, reinventing styles...
Fast forward several decades and the Bol d’Or has become a relatively affordable alternative to the now, highly collectable and sought after...
In the early eighties, I had a series of t-shirts that featured vinyl, metal flake prints. They varied in subject...
A second attempt at anything in life usually results in a better outcome than the first. Whether it’s sitting for...
1978 Honda CB550 Cafe Racer customized by Jeff Stephens of Godffery’s Garage. More images, video and specs after the jump…...
Can you imagine the horror at Moto Guzzi’s HQ when Honda unveiled their first CX500 in 1978? A Japanese manufacturer...
Established in 2006 the 7Seven Custom workshop in Slovenia is all too familiar with the late model CB750’s. Back...
After my post a few days ago the Honda Fury was officially launched in New York. To coincide with this...
Siberia. 13 million square kilometres of the most sparsely populated land on Earth and as it turns out, home to one of...
A few weeks back I posted the Ellaspede custom Honda CB350 and it went down a treat. Today we this...
The CM series motorcycle, preceding the Honda Rebel series, embodied the classic flat-seat style of the 1960s and 1970s. This...
On the dawn of the premiere of Discovery HD Theatres Cafe Racer TV series a production studio called “The Second...
Unlike many of the Honda CB750’s I see converted in to Cafe Racers this one started out as a mid...
Let’s face it. We don’t all possess the ability to rebuild an engine, to hand form steel or to even...
This October 13 you can watch as the guys at Dime City Cycles transform this banged up, sludge filled Honda...
I will be the first to say that this isn’t going to be a top performing vehicle. This 1986 Honda CG125...
Earning a customer’s trust is worth more to a custom workshop than simply getting customers in the door. Without trust,...
What is it about Benjie’s Cafe Racer parts that make every bike their fitted to look stunning? These two Honda...
As the world’s largest producer of motorcycles, it comes as no surprise that Honda cafe racer builds are commonplace here...
This modified 1981 Honda CM400T features a light blue finish adorned with Gulf livery over an orange frame. Powering the...
“For years, I had watched all the motorcycle builder shows on TV and had always wanted to build my own...
“We have been so consumed with customer work that we haven’t been able to build a shop bike since we...
At first glance you could mistakably name this bikes donor as a CX500, which is wrong, but not far off....
It’s no secret that Honda’s CX series from the late 70’s has gone through a resurgence in the last five...
Honda is continuing to expand their modern-retro segment, or as they call it ‘Neo-Sports”, with the addition of the 2022...
Earlier this month I ventured to Indonesia with Luke from Fuel Tank. This was our 5th year attending the Kustomfest...
Having the luxury of being able to build motorcycles at your own pace isn’t something most professional workshops enjoy. For...
In late 2015, a project transformed this 1975 Honda CB750 Super Sport into a cafe racer. The heart of the...
“They don’t make them like they used to!” When you hear those words uttered it is generally with disdain. A...
This insectoid-looking CB750F Turbo is easily one of the most unusual Honda cafe racers featured here. It’s the work of...
“The Natural” built by Portland based workshop The Tarantulas. It’s a bike that’s had plenty of mentions around here but...
We’ve all seen the listings on eBay. “Perfect project bike”, “Needs some attention”, “It’s all there, just requires reassembling!”. The...
