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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.

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Bandit9 Honda Bros 400 Hephaestus

  “Our goal here at Bandit9 is to deliver a unique product that’s drastically different from the last. We don’t...
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Back on Two Honda CB350 Cafe Racer

Building one of the only Cafe Racers in your country is no mean feat, especially when you live in a...
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Jerikan Honda CB750

Ahh Google Translate, how I love your ability to allow me to converse with people whose native tongue is 100% indecipherable to me! Which...
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BCR CB750 Urban Scrambler

This bike is the daily commuter of BCR crew member Doinker. It’s a 1978 Honda CB750F Super Sport modified to...
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Krugger Tribute to Japan Honda CB450

Fred Krugger (not to be mistaken with the wrinkly chapfrom the Nightmare on Elm Street movies) builds some fairly “out...
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Honda CT110 custom Postie

Andy who is an Architectural Draftsperson by trade, built Express Post to compete in an annual event organised by a group of...
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Honda CB350 Limited Edition Cafe Racer

“It started out as a 1969 (70?) Honda CB350. It had the upswept CL pipes on it but the engine...
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Rewheeled Honda CB750 Cafe Racer

If Sir Mixalot was here right now his Anaconda would be bitterly disappointed. This is Rewheeled #1, a Honda CB750...
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Honda CBX1000 RAW Cafe Racer

Over the last few years, I’ve seen some amazing things happen in the world of custom motorcycle building, but the...
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Honda CB750 K2 Black Heart

It’s not uncommon to hear people referring to a motorcycle as being bulletproof, but it’s not that often that it...
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Honda CB750 by Moto Hangar

Here’s the latest custom motorcycle to roll out of Moto Hangar’s workshop, a tidy ’76 Honda CB750 Cafe Racer. While...
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HONDA CB750 Cafe Racer

Straight from one end of Honda’s CB range to the other. Yesterday it was a CB125 Cafe Racer from the...
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Honda CB125s Cafe Racer

“This thing (“Bowie” the Honda CB125s) was an impulse buy and was in pretty bad shape the day I took...
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E3 Honda CB750 Cafe Racer

Back in April when I featured E3 motorcycles Honda CB550 Cafe Racer it created a clear divide of lovers and...
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Honda CB175 Twin Cylinder Saints

What is it about small motorcycles that makes me smile so much? This awesome little AHRMA GP200 road racer is the Twin Cylinder...
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Harley Davidson FLH HighSlot

This popped up on the Biltwell facebook page and I felt compelled to share. It’s a heavily customised ’84 Harley Davison...
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DSR GP 250R Cafe Racer

Darrell Schneider of DS Restorations isn’t the kind of guy to shy away from a challenge. With 30+ years of...
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Kott Motorcycles – Honda CB550 Copper Cafe

How many times have you walked into a dealership and been convinced by a salesman that their bike isn’t right...
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T Mobile CB750 Cafe Racer

The Honda Cafe Racer which started out as a rather sad looking scrapyard find, underwent a ground up custom rebuild...
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The Deus Temple of Enthusiasm Bali

  As I mentioned there’s a lot going on at the Temple of Enthusiasm, in fact, there’s even more than...
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CB750 that sweet sound

How many times have you seen photos of a stunning Cafe Racer or custom motorcycle and been left day dreaming...
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Honda CBR600F3 Street Fighter

What’s the difference between a Street Fighter and a Cafe Racer? Well you wouldn’t be wrong if you were to...
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Inspiration from Le Container

If you don’t already have Le Container in your bookmarks or on your Blog roll you soon will. This is...
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Honda SLR650 Dominator The Needle

  “And now for something completely different” Just when I thought I’d seen every type of custom motorcycle there is,...
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Honda S90 Cafe Racer by Deus

Since I recently paid a visit to Deus Ex Machina in Sydney I thought it pertinent to feature one of...
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Honda CB750 Nighthawk Cafe Racer

Unlike many of the Honda CB750’s I see converted in to Cafe Racers this one started out as a mid...
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Ellaspede CB350 in motion

A few weeks back I posted the Ellaspede custom Honda CB350 and it went down a treat. Today we this...
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Honda CB550 E3

  A few years back in New York, in a 4th floor city apartment E3 Motorcycles was born. In May...
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Friday motorcycle movies

I love Fridays. As beer o’clock draws closer (4pm) my concentration disintegrates and I begin my weekly ritual of trawling...
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Honda S90 by Airtech Streamlining

California based Airtech Streamlining are manufacturers of “the world’s largest selection of motorcycle fairings and bodywork”, producing parts for land...
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Honda CB400 Cafe Racer

Place your bids!! This incredibly tidy Honda CB400 Cafe Racer is up for auction on Ebay right now. Read the...
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Honda CB350 by Ellaspede

Brisbane based industrial designers, mechanics and tinkerers Steve Barry and Leo Yip are the driving force behind Ellaspede custom motorcycles...
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Honda Seeley CB750

This amazing piece of seventies motorcycle history has just popped up on eBay with a starting bid of $16,000AUD. It’s...
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F*CK WORK LETS RACE by Kristina Fender

I’ve been a huge fan of Spanish photographic rockstar Kristina Fender for some time. Not only does she take a...
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Readers Rides: Kwaka 125 Street Racer

The motorcycle above it’s a custom Kawasaki Ninja 250r from Donny in Jakarta, Indonesia. The time it takes to build...
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Readers Rides: Honda CG125 resurrection

I will be the first to say that this isn’t going to be a top performing vehicle. This 1986 Honda CG125...
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Readers Rides: tight golden Triumph

To kick off our “Readers Rides week” we’ve got a bit of bling in the form of a gold leafed...
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Readers Rides: Honda CX500 Cafe Racer

  Chris, the owner of this Honda CX500 Cafe Racer built the bike after deciding it was time to have...
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Readers Rides: Honda CM125 Riot Bike

This little beauty of a bike from Simon and Singapore. He built the bike in the car park outside his...
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Honda Cafe Racer from Tahoma, WA

I never get tired of seeing Honda CB750‘s converted into Cafe Racers. Not only is the CB750 a magnificent base...
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Choppertown Nations 3rd Backyard Build contest

are holding their 3rd annual backyard build contest and Return of the Cafe Racers are on board to support the...
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Honda VRF1000R Magnificent Bastard

I was really surprised to see that Icon chose the Honda VRF1000R as the base for the Magnificent Bastard. In...
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Honda CBX400F by 09RACING

This custom Honda CBX400F race bike from 09RACING Japan is a far cry from how Honda released it. What was...
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PunkD Honda CB750 custom

With no prior knowledge of custom motorcycle building or even motorcycle riding Marco turned to a cousin for advice who...
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Monday Motorcycle Blues

It’s Monday and the motorbikes parked out the front feeling neglected. All I want to do is ride....
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Honda CR750 M3 Factory Racer

In the winter of 2001 M3 Racing factory in Hawley, Minnesota hand built 4 replica Honda CR750 racers. Each of the...
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Old School Engineering CB750 K2

In the early eighties, I had a series of t-shirts that featured vinyl, metal flake prints. They varied in subject...
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Honda CB500 Cafe Racer for sale

  Check out this 1973 Honda CB500 Cafe Racer up for grabs now oneBay. The bike have a list of...
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Honda CB750 Cafe Racer

We just received images of this outstanding 1974 Honda CB750 Cafe Racer from photographer Phil Foss. The bike was put...
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Retro cool motorcycle adverts

Look at those…prices! Back when men were men and scantily clad women were every advertisers secret weapon (not much has...
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Monday Motorcycle Blues

Well as always the weather in Perth couldn’t be any better for riding…shame my W650 is sitting under a cover...
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Custom Honda CB750 by Derek Despain

“Derek Despain has never been one to settle down. A week of knowing Despain can somewhat be related to the...
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Monday Motorcycle Blues

No more riding for me until the new year! (no this isn’t my bike…I wish!) My two wheel fix will...
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Honda CB125S “Big Blue” Cafe Racer

When someone says they’ve been bitten by the motorcycle bug they usually mean that they have developed an obsession with...
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Monday motorcycle blues

I’m back on the W650 again! Got loads of time in the saddle this weekend, but it’s never enough!...
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Honda CB200 Cafe Racer

We just received this great set of photos from Chin on the Tank. They feature Nina keeping it real on...
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CRD Love potion #9

Cream Motorcycles have released their ninth build, a 1980 Honda CB 750 named “Brownie” and it’s sweeeeet. The build took...
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“Juice” Honda CB750 electric Cafe Racer

The base for the Electric Juice Cafe Racer was a 1979 Honda CB750, a motorcycle that many modern Cafe Racer...
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Dime City Cycles Four Hundred update

The DCC crew have added some more amazing shots of the Four Hundred that I had to share with those...
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Vintage motorcycle photography

Todd McLellan is a Canadian still and motion photographer whose work includes this outstanding series of restored and customised vintage...
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Dime City Cycles Honda Four Hundred

The DCC Four Hundred is based on a 1975 Honda CB400F and has been featured in season 2 of Cafe...
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Bushido Honda CB500 Cafe Racer

A few months back I posted a video from Two Guys Garage showing the progress of their Honda CB500 Cafe Racer....
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Readers rides October 2011 part 2

We are pleased to showcase another set of readers rides for the month of October. Amazing garage built Cafe Racers...
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1978 Honda CB550K Cafe Racer

“This Honda CB550K was an older gentleman’s highway cruiser with shield and bags when I found it. You could tell...
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Honda CB360 Spartan Cafe Racer

  Take two Honda 360’s. Rebuild motor, brakes, forks, carbs, swingarm with combination of parts from two said bikes. Custom...
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Monday motorbike blues

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Readers rides October 2011

October! What the hell happened to September!? More amazing home built Cafe Racers from our readers. This time round it’s...
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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo motorcycle

For the US release of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, actress Rooney Mara has done away with...
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Readers rides

We have been receiving some stunning Cafe Racers from our readers. If you have a Cafe Racer you’ve built in...
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Honda Mugen MRV1000

Looking at the picture above one could be convinced that they are viewing an engine built by Vincent Motorcycles (I certainly...
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Elkhart Lake Vintage Motorcycle Races

Big thanks to Collin Christenbury for sending in these shots he took at the Vintage Motorcycle Races & Show in Elkhart Lake...
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Fuel Tank TV – Much Much Go

Bandit films and Fuel Tank TV have released the full version of their profiler video showcasing the work of custom...
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Race ready 50cc Honda Dream

Back in 2007 I came across a Honda Dream on display in a motorcycle store in Leederville, Western Australia. I...
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Bike Exif 2012 Calendar

If you love your 2011 Bike Exif calendar as much as I do then get ready for the 2012 edition....
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Drake McElroy $1500USD Honda CR250

Fifteen hundred bucks ain’t much of a budget when you’re setting out to build a custom motorcycle but it seems...
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Custom motorcycles by The Tarantulas

  The Tarantulas are a collection of motorcycle loving friends in Portland, USA. They are riders and builders of Cafe...
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Union Motorcycle Classics

If you happen to be passing through Nampa, Idaho and you spot this century old milking do yourself a favour...
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Deus Ex Machina new website

Deus ex Machina came on the scene around about the same time I set up Return of the Cafe Racers...
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Readers rides: Like father like son CB550

What is it about Benjie’s Cafe Racer parts that make every bike their fitted to look stunning? These two Honda...
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Erick Runyon motorcycle photographer

Beautiful shots of beautiful motorbikes by Erik Runyon.     I’m loving the colour of that tank. Maybe the colour...
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Whitehouse x Motorimoda custom CB750

After spying these new shots of the Cafe CB750 by Whitehouse and Motorimoda on the Bikeexif facebook page, I thought I’d share...
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Hardcore Svenmeister Number 8

This Cafe Racer built by Hardcore Svenmeister Customs is named simply Number 8. Number 8 is based on a 1980...
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Lossa Engineering Solus

Makes me want to tear down the freeway tonight… lossaengineering.com...
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Best of the 2011 AMD Championships

The results are out and the winners have been announced but what bikes were our favourite custom motorcycles from the...
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Rickman motorcycles

Rickman Honda CR750 Brothers Derek and Don Rickman  established Rickman motorcycles in 1960 from which they manufactured motorcycles up until...
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Readers Rides

Honda CB750 “Cold bitch” More home built Cafe Racers sent in by our talented readers. Thanks for sharing your motorcycles...
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Two Guys Garage Honda CB500

Here’s an episode from Two Guys Garage giving us a sneak peek at the Honda CB500 they are building which...
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Sammy the Honda CB100

Sourced from Just Bikes. Sammy the CB100 is the creation of Ace builder Darren Brown. Sammy is described by Darren as “more of...
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Sweet CB450

    Found on Pipeburn.com...
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‘Bonita Applebum’ CB450 Cafe Racer

This Honda 1971 CB450 Cafe Racer titled Bonita recently appeared on Cafe Racer and custom motorcycle Blog, Pipeburn. After getting...
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Motorcycle made from Beer

Ok, so it may not actually be made from Beer (that’s just plain ridiculous) but this very tidy Honda CB160r...
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Honda CB750 Dick Mann replica

This Honda CB750, Dick Mann replica has been built by a chap by the name of Mick in Sydney. Mick has...
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Sweet sounding Honda RC166 Six

…and all of a sudden you’re hooked. The RC166 won an amazing 10 out of 10 1966 World Championship series...
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Wrenchmonkees Honda CX 500

The Wrenchmonkees have just won themselves a trophy without even trying! The boys took one of their newest builds, a...
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Supercharged Honda CB750 Cafe Racer

Supercharged and Nitrous Oxide aren’t words you often hear muttered by builders of Cafe Racers when they are running off...
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Long and low – Bodyline Customs

Custom motorcycles straight out of the seventies by Bodyline Customs. Long, Low and full of style.        ...
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Return of the Citrus Cafe Racer

Rex built the Citrus Cafe Racers frame using his own design which features a mono shock rear suspension system. The...
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Best bikes at Deus bike build off

I wasn’t able to make it along to the event last weekend at Deus Ex Machina in Camperdown, Sydney and...
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Honda CB550 cafe racer

   I wonder if it goes as hard as it sounds?...
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