February/March 2026 Issue Out now
Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring Roughchild’s Radical BMW Boxer, Suzuki TL1000 Cafe Custom, Buell 1190 Road Test, and Triumph Thruxton and Tracker 400s. Get yours today!
December/January 2026
Issue Out now
Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring Roughchild’s Radical BMW Boxer, Suzuki TL1000 Cafe Custom, Buell 1190 Road Test, and Triumph Thruxton and Tracker 400s. Get yours today!
Blog
Navigating New Parts Delivery Waters
Allow us to go on a bit of a rant here, but has the service at UPS become absolute garbage in recent months or is it just our collective imaginations? We recently ordered a set of engine-mounting hardware for a Canadian Norton Atlas project bike through an eBay...
On Being A Magazine Junkie
Some of my most enduring childhood memories concern a small retail shop on the main commercial street in the Pittsburgh suburb I grew up in. My mom would often drop us off at a dusty, overstocked place known as Discount Bookstore which was filled with aisles and...
Wild Bargains and Market Corrections
This January’s Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction was a marathon five-day affair. The proceedings at the sprawling South Point hotel and casino began slowly on Tuesday, January 27th with the auctioneer rolling through a series of recently manufactured machines, many...
No More Tons In The Sun
No To The Ton In Cali While California is arguably the best motorcycling state in the union, speeding on two wheels in the Golden State just became a lot riskier. Both the DMV and the California Highway patrol have joined forces to stamp out reckless driving (and...
A 21st Century Harley-Davidson Cafe Racer
In a move both long anticipated and utterly surprising, Harley-Davidson revealed a modern version of their beloved 1977 XLRC Cafe Racer. The new concept bike was unleashed on an unsuspecting public at the recent Mama Tried custom show in H-D's hometown of Milwaukee,...
Short-Lived Gallic Style
Readers often ask us and debate between themselves what is the best-looking factory cafe racer ever designed? Opinion divides folks fairly passionately when it comes to the aesthetic appeal of certain motorcycles, but it's surprising how often disparate minds think...





