New Website Bike Competition We’re regularly inundated with images of reader’s custom motorcycles, far to many to share with you in copies of Cafe Racer magazine. During one of our staff’s routine pints and pondering sessions, some bright bulb happened upon the idea of featuring the choicest, sweetest home-built cafe specials on a dedicated website…

The upcoming December/January issue of CRM covers a lot of ground- literally- as we offer up a collection of features culled from the past twelve months of biking road trips. One of our favorite playgrounds for two-wheeling is Southern Cali, a place where networks of canyon roads make for very memorable, very exciting riding. The…

ACE CAFE REUNION WEEKEND! 2nd – 4th September Independently acclaimed as the world’s coolest motorcycle event! Three Days, Three Rides, One Reunion! Friday 2nd September from 6pm – The Continental Run Ride-In. Saturday 3rd September – Cafe Racer & Rockers Ride-Out. Depart: 10.30am Destination: Battersea Park (Central London) Sunday 4th September – Brighton Burn-Up &…

With just a few weeks remaining before our Ninth Annual Reader’s Ride-In Bike Show, everything – including the weather- is heating up quite nicely. Our vendors and support staff have gone the extra kilometer to ensure that the August 13 event will top all those preceding it and then some. CRM regular and So Cal…

Headed to the West Coast recently for our annual escape the winter and test ride new streetbikes week. The journey from Pittsburgh to L.A. was full of anticipation as team CRM relocated for the week in Agoura Hills, the hilly, arid region where endless paved canyon roads make for some of the best riding memories…

Recently confirmed is a new location and date for this summer’s must-see custom cafe racer show- the Cafe Racer Reader’s Ride-In Bike Show- our ninths- is set to roll on Saturday, August 13 at Sewickley, Pennsylvania’s War Memorial Park. The lush park setting will fill with some of the country’s top custom builds and this…

Eve though we’ve experienced one of the mildest Novembers and, judging by the coming forecast, Decembers on record, this remains a time of year when the mind focuses on building more than riding. Most of the bikes in the CRM stable require end of season maintenance by now, having covered about 11,000 collective miles during…

Sept. 24, 2015 An unusually warm fall in these parts has meant riding the regions many challenging backroads nearly every single day. The weather has been dry in addition to unseasonably warm, so the odometers are rolling like its mid-June in the CRM garage and we’re actually wearing out sets of tires on our fleet…

To say that we’re overwhelmed and truly stoked by the amazing number of custom cafe bikes and people who showed up last Sunday for our 8th Annual Reader’s Ride-In Bike Show would be an understatement. This was the first time we’d staged the event at our Sewickley HQ instead of at Mid-Ohio during AMA Vintage…