Café Racer
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Video: 50th anniversary Moto Guzzi V7 custom cafe racer
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To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moto Guzzi V7, Vanguard has teamed up with Gannet Design and Wrench Kings to create the Vanguard Moto Guzzi V7 Custom café racer. Ulfert Janssen from Gannet Design said: “In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moto Guzzi V7 and new Vanguard jeans, we designed a one-off…
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Royal Enfield unveils awesome ‘custom’ specials
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It’s not a production bike – but it really should be. This is the Surf Racer, a one-off custom creation for Royal Enfield designed to show what can be done to the pretty simple donor bike. It came about when Royal Enfield showed off two new ‘custom’ creations at the recent Wheels and Waves…
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Xabi Alonso swaps boots for bhp and picks up a BMW R 100 Café Racer
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Spanish football superstar Xabi Alonso has just bought a custom BMW R 100 from Madrid based Café Racer Dreams. Professional athletes often have clauses in their contracts that prohibit them from getting up to anything considered too risky – and one of those ‘risky’ activities is motorcycling. But with just a month to go until Alonso…
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BMW G310R Supersport, Scrambler and Café Racer concepts
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Adding a small capacity machine their lineup, BMW Motorrad is pulling out all the stops to try and get younger riders onto two wheels. And the new BMW G310R should offer a pretty convincing argument – but what if BMW unveiled three more models alongside the G310R? Sadly, these are not ‘official’ concepts. They’re…
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Video: Check out this cool naked Street Fighter Blade from Italy. Brute meets cafe racer (kind of)
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So here’s what you do when you don’t want to buy a new superbike and the raft of modern naked roadsters leave you cold… you go and buy a Street Racer ‘short-tail’ Fireblade. Made in Italy, the bike is built from the CBR900RR Blade with customers having a choice of three engine sizes to choose…
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Meet the Ducati Panigale R Cafe Racer – ‘The Blue Shark’
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You all know the 2016 Ducati Panigale R pretty well. Out last year, and costing just shy of £30,000 – the Panigale R is pretty much state of the art as far as buyable Ducatis go… Now, imagine cutting one up and making this…’The Blue Shark’. In 2016, this bike rolled straight off the Ducati…
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Yamaha putting XSR900 Abarth special on sale tomorrow (only 95 bikes up for grabs – so be quick)
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Yamaha putting XSR900 Abarth special on sale tomorrow (only 95 bikes up for grabs – so be quick). Yamaha is turning on the online registration for those wanting to buy its XSR900 Abarth. Only the first 95 customers will be able to register their online order for the limited edition with the process going live…
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Sweet special: This is a Yamaha MT-03. Yep. Looks brilliant.
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Sweet special: This is a Yamaha MT-03. Yep. Looks brilliant. Check out this super sweet MT-03 special dirt-tracker. Built by German custom house Kingston Customs the bike is essentially the same MT-03 in terms of engine and major components but what KC has done has really made a difference. The special gets semi-knobbly tyres, a…
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Video: AWESOME video on how to drift a trick ER6-n cafe racer AND a Nissan
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Video: AWESOME video on how to drift a trick ER6-n cafe racer AND a Nissan. Check out this awesome video from our friends at the French mag Moto Journal. It’s a masterclass in the art of sliding two and four wheels. It’s all in French but has english subtitles so it’s easy enough to follow.…
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Honda’s CB500F special is the sweetest bolt-on bitsa special we’ve seen yet. Cafe Racer goes modern in a cool way
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Honda’s CB500F special is the sweetest bolt-on bitsa special we’ve seen yet. Cafe Racer goes modern in a cool way. Honda had a couple of interesting specials (they’re not really specials, much more tweaked new models put out to gauge public reaction) – and the sweetest of them at the Indonesian show was this CB500F.…
