Sick, Sexy Sixes

    Back when I was just out of high school and riding my first motorcycle, I wasn’t particularly interested in speed. With a steady diet of late 1970s custom motorcycle magazines feeding my impressionable brain, I lusted after a bike that just plain...

Exotic Chassis – Get ‘Em While You Can

Regular readers of Cafe Racer magazine know we’re deep into several custom bike builds. Though each motorcycle project, whether it be classic or contemporary has its own wow factors, we’re constantly surprised by the reactions we get from people digging on...

Anniversary Enfields

    Getting older isn’t always the easiest of experiences, but there are certainly advantages to amassing a few decades on this planet. I’m old enough to recall a less-enlightened age when many of my fellow Americans sincerely believed ourselves...

motorcycles Make For Great Translators

  Recovering this month from some fairly extensive surgery on my banged-up kick start foot has left me lots of time for catching up. And not just on much-needed sleep and a few good books, but on my list of places to go once I’m all recovered and healthy in...

A Stellar Feat of Engineering

  Few feature bikes in the 14-year history of this magazine have garnered the sort of universal praise and admiration of our current cover bike. The one-of-a-kind Yamaha R1 cafe racer designed by Chicago’s Rob Cantanese and Union, Illinois’...

Tried and Tested – 2021

It’s been a whirlwind year for test riding motorbikes at Cafe Racer magazine with new streetbikes being served up nearly monthly by the major manufacturers. It’s one area of producing this bi-monthly magazine that’s good for both the readers and our...