Modern Cafe Convenience

Modern Cafe Convenience

Regular readers of the magazine will be familiar with our ongoing Triumph Trident 900 project bike. The one-off special is being built by our team with assistance from Cafe Racer Kits, a UK firm who specialize in very comprehensive and well-engineered custom bike...
Tech Talk

Tech Talk

We’re just back from the Washington, D.C. Progressive International Motorcycle Show where the massive crowd was definitely into the custom cafe bike scene. I was enlisted by the organizers to stage several tech talks in the show’s vintage bike arena on how...
D.C. Bound

D.C. Bound

A great means of breaking up winter’s monotony is upon us as the CRM crew are headed South to the Washington, D.C. Progressive International Motorcycle Show. Stop by our booth to say hello, shoot the breeze, check out one of the more recent shop builds and pick...

Unlikely Hero

We rediscovered this image recently that goes back to the very first batch of photos that helpful folks submitted to us back in 2008 when this magazine wad first launched. It reminds us of the sheer power of necessity and value when it comes to building custom...

Research and New Developments

Regular readers of Cafe Racer will know well our ongoing attempts to install an electric starter in a Triumph 750 engine. The engine, nestled within the featherbed frame of a Triton custom, has, in the past two years, been treated to a retro fitting of the timing...

Our Kinda Brough

During a recent visit to London’s Bike Shed, we were lucky enough to spot one of the new Brough Superior S100 motorcycles on display. For those not familiar, Brough Superior were considered the world’s most desirable high-performance streetbikes during the...