Recognizing Incredible Talent and Vision

For our upcoming June/July issue, cafe Racer magazine is celebrating not only the dedicated staff and readership that’s taken us this far, but we’re running a special feature detailing the previous winners of our annual Best In Show award at the...

Riding Runs In the Family

  At a much younger age, me and my buddies used to frequently pontificate on what qualities would make for the prefect prospective bride. The usual assortment of comments would surface again and again, mostly having to do with sexual appetites and whether said...

Long Overdue Props

  Cafe Racer’s April/May issue hits the streets next week k with a long overdue emphasis on women riders, a growing sector in all areas of motorcycling. We’ve known some powerful, dedicated female enthusiasts over the years and are fortunate enough to...

Bid On Bikes From Home

  Ever dream of purchasing or selling the motorcycle of your dreams from the comfort of your home or office? Come Saturday, April 15, J. Wood and Co. Auctions is serving up just that chance as they team up with online auction facilitators highbid.com to offer a...

Where’s The Coverage?

The Daytona 200 gets underway Saturday at 2 pm and for the third consecutive year, I won’t be watching the race. This is not a decision of my own, but that of cable TV programmers who have collectively passed on providing broadcast coverage of what once was...

Where’s Your Cafe?

  We finished up our recent West Coast journey with visits to a pair of So Cal’s brightest motorcycle meeting places, namely, The Rock Store nestled in the canyons about 40 miles east of Loas Angeles and Neptune’s Net, the airy, well-visited seafood...