The café racer motorcycle is a fascinating relic of the past. Originating from the vibrant motorcycle culture of the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s, café racers were the brainchild of young ...

The café racer style of motorcycles was born from a particular era. Just as small street bikes still draw inspiration from Japanese models of the 1970s and 1980s, modern café racers hearken back to ...

Cafe racers are considered to be an odd phenomenon. More than just aesthetics, they are great for presenting a clean and beautiful paradigm shift for the future of engineering. In fact, this field is ...

The market is so saturated with vintage and classically-styled motorcycles that it’s almost getting, well, old. There’s no denying the Ducati Scrambler Cafe Racer or the Kawasaki Z900RS are pretty ...

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, ...

More often than not, the raddest custom motorcycles out there are built by people with many years of experience behind them. However, a relatively new builder will sometimes come along and knock ...

The most shocking motorcycle on this list is a 700+ pound cruiser bike that doesn't quite emphasize on 'performance' but ...

There are several things to love about the cafe racer scene. For one, there’s no “right” way to do a cafe bike. Sure, certain styling cues are often in play -- except when they aren’t, but the design ...

Hipsters have been embracing old-fashioned, single-gear pushbikes, or fixies, for years, but now it is motorbikes that are getting the retro treatment. However, there is more to know in modern day ...

The modern crop of café bikes benefit from the latest sport bikes, sharing powertrains and achieving astonishing output. They aren't as focused on an all-out racetrack experience (even though they ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

Motorcycle culture was founded on counterculture. Societal rebels, outlaws and drifters were some of the first to accept two-wheeled transportation as their way of life, and the association has stuck ...