Café Racer Magazine
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Café Racer Magazine is your complete, bimonthly guide to cafe racers, classic bikes, specials, hybrids, British iron, streetfighters and other incredible, high-performance motorcycles.
Café Racer Magazine
4d ago
Cafe Racer Magazine’s away team headed to sunny So Cal this week for a well-needed update of sorts. We’ve hit up several major motorcycle manufacturers for test bikes to get a feel for their latest naked performance offerings. Though we hadn’t even considered the trend, most of the 2024 streetbikes dropped off at our hotel ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
2w ago
In the months since announcing the first Royal Enfield Custom Contest, our eyes have been blown open by the sheer adaptability of the Indian-made machines. The global competition has been open to Royal Enfield-branded bikes regardless of year of manufacture, which resulted in readers sharing pics of their handbuilt vintage and modern motorcycles in ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
1M ago
As advertised, cafe Racer magazine is the first US publication to throw a leg over the sculpted saddle of the re-born BSA’s Gold Star 650. Our test rider Mark Mederski volunteered to evaluate the 21st century take on the British classic single and he returned from the experience wearing a grin large enough to swallow ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
1M ago
Ten Years Since Cafe Racer TV Times tends to just zip by when you’re busy, causing the mind and memory to override the recent past almost automatically. However, this week marked ten years since the final season of our acclaimed “Cafe Racer TV” series ended production. The series ran for an incredible 56 episodes ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
1M ago
Regular readers of Cafe Racer magazine will know our garage is a revolving door of visiting technicians. We’re the first motorcycle magazine to devote a sizable portion of each issue to building, designing and maintaining a fleet of customized streetbikes so the need for call-in help is frequent. On occasion, we’ve had professional mechanics ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
2M ago
Motorcycle riding, be it a sport, a lifestyle or simple, everyday transportation, requires a certain amount of determination. The physical demands of donning the proper riding gear, climbing aboard a two-wheeler and maneuvering it through today’s traffic0clogged roads is not a task for the snowflakes among us. The rigors of traveling by motorcycle become ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
2M ago
The new BSA Gold Star 650 in Deluxe trim It’s a great time of year to be a moto-journalist. The world’s motorcycle manufacturers are steadily rolling out their new-for-2024 machines, and news reports arrive nearly every day, detailing some exotic or unexpected slice of two-wheeled desirability. The ongoing craze for retro-styled streetbikes continues to grow ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
2M ago
The Benelli Mojave fuel tank on our Yamaha SR500 project bike. A few years back, a single, off-beat motorcycle part came to define the modern custom cafe racer era. The narrow, 2.6-gallon gas tank that first adorned Benelli’s dualsport Mojave, somehow became the go-to custom accessory for cafe racer builders the world over. Scroll through ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
3M ago
The CRM team made our way to last weekend’s Mecum Motorcycle Auction at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for the first time in several years. First-timer Blair Powell was eager to witness an event he’d been hearing about for years. Being the owner of a half-dozen classic bikes, he was ..read more
Café Racer Magazine
3M ago
Opening the email each week has become a sought-after task here at CRM as the bevy of customized Royal Enfields rolling in for our Custom Contest are taking everyone here by surprise. Not only have we heard from some of the top professional motorcycle designers and builders in Royal Enfield’s native India, but ..read more