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- [Showtime, 2026](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/04/16/showtime-2026/) - Just announced the 19th Annual Cafe Racer Ride-In Custom Bike Showdate has been set for Saturday, August 15th. The day-longfestivities will take place at the usual spot in Sewickley's WarMemorial Park, located just outside of Pittsburgh. Doors open at 10am and the event promises to be a real barn burner with topnationwide custom cafe builders
- [A Possible Cure for $6 Per Gallon Petrol?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/04/07/a-possible-cure-for-6-per-gallon-petrol/) - Funny how quickly things change. When the CRM team began compiling info on the current crop of electric motorcycle offerings last fall, we weren't sure the story would fly. Most major motorcycle manufacturers were exploring the EV concept and more than a few had released full-on, electric-powered streetbikes in recent years. However, sales have been
- [Navigating New Parts Delivery Waters](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/03/30/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 seller, only to have the items held
- [On Being A Magazine Junkie](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/03/24/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 shelves full of all sorts of publications. My
- [Wild Bargains and Market Corrections](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/03/17/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 of them less then 30 years old. This and the next early day were filed
- [No More Tons In The Sun](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/03/10/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 riding) with a new enforcement campaign aimed at
- [A 21st Century Harley-Davidson Cafe Racer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/03/02/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, and the sleek, blacked-out missile set jaws agape and the Internet ablaze.
- [Short-Lived Gallic Style](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/02/22/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 alike. For instance, nearly everyone we communicate with believes Laverda's sexy, parallel twin SFC750 to
- [How Low Can You Go?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/02/16/how-low-can-you-go/) - One of our staff's favorite ways to prepare for the next issue of Cafe Racer magazine is to pour over our voluminous photo files. During the past 18 years of publishing, we've amassed a library of images numbering in the hundreds of thousands, many contributed by readers and their families and friends. At this point,
- [Rolled, Sold and Ridden Away](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/02/09/rolled-sold-and-ridden-away/) - Our crew is just back from an extended journey out West where we first visited Las Vegas for the annual mecum Motorcycle Auction, followed by a week ripping through the canyons north of Los Angels, test riding a crop of pretty impressive, 2026 retro and naked performance bikes. While we'll be publishing reviews on the
- [Triumph Rolls Out The Big Bore Cafe Racer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/01/27/triumph-rolls-out-the-big-bore-cafe-racer/) - When we revealed that Triumph's new, 2026 version of their popular Thruxton cafe racer would be a 400cc single, it was met mostly with applause. Many of our magazine's younger readers were pleased to see the British manufacturer address the needs of riders uninterested in large-capacity machines and the fact that 400s generally sell at
- [Dave Degens - A Cafe Racing Giant](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/01/20/dave-degens-a-cafe-racing-giant/) - Back some 40-odd years, CRM contributing writer Blair Powell used to subscribe to England's Classic Bike magazine. The monthly provided a glimpse into a world of motorcycling that was fresh and completely new, especially for two twentysomethings riding funky old Harleys that spent as much time broken down on the roadside as they did in
- [Unlikely Ton-Up Donor Bike](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/01/13/unlikely-ton-up-donor-bike/) - Coming up in Cafe Racer magazine's February/March issue, we feature a customized motorcycle that has to rank as one of the least-likely modern machines to become a favorite of custom cafe designers. We're looking at Suzuki's torque-monster TL100S, a wild V-twin superbike that briefly ruled the roads back in the late 1990s. Released in 1997
- [Drug Lords and Ducatis](https://www.caferacermag.com/2026/01/05/drug-lords-and-ducatis/) - The motorcycle racing community was burst wide open last week with the release of images taken in a Mexico City garage. Inside that dark, dusty warehouse, drug enforcement agents from the US, Mexico and Canada had parked dozens of motorcycles reportedly belonging to wanted drug lord and former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. These were
- [A Wining Combination](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/12/29/a-wining-combination/) - After four years and many starts and stops, the longest-running custom motorcycle project we've ever undertaken at CRM has finally come to a grand conclusion. The classic British bike we dubbed The Combination Commando was an all-hands-on-deck proposition, taxing the mechanical skills, patience and, I hate to admit, friendships of the entire staff. The whole
- [A Smaller Slice of Speed](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/12/18/a-smaller-slice-of-speed/) - In one of the biggest announcements to hit the retro/cafe racer market this year, England's Triumph released news of not one, but two all-new 400cc single-cylinder machines this week. And true to the re-born manufacturer's form, the motorcycles are good-looking, well-designed and sure to capture the fancy of riders looking for ton-up machines without all
- [Honda's Late '70s Groove](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/12/08/hondas-late-70s-groove/) - 1979 was a big year in my house- I turned the magic age of 16, meaning a license to operate a motorcycle on the street was possible and, if I had anything to do with it, inevitable. I'd managed to talk my way into a job at a local fast-food joint at age 15 (computerized
- [Ton-Up Tokyo](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/12/01/ton-up-tokyo/) - In Cafe Racer magazine's upcoming December/January issue, we revel in the full-bore enthusiasm for classic British bikes and riding fashions among ton-up riders in Shiga, Japan. Our man on the scene, Hiro Madea, is a longtime vintage Britbike rider and hard-working organizer of motorcycle events in his native country. After spending years as a pattern-cutter
- [Strange But True Motorcycle Offerings](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/11/24/strange-but-true-motorcycle-offerings/) - In Cafe Racer's upcoming December/January issue, we take a poke at some of the stranger things to emerge from the recent EICMA industry mega-show in Milan, Italy. Our man-on-the-ground Gary Hallobeck sent us daily missives from the sprawling event that draws in just about every part and accessory manufacturer in the motorsports world (well, that
- [Late Fall Riding (Without Any Falls)](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/11/14/late-fall-riding-without-any-falls/) - My neighbor Chris is a great guy and a fellow motorcyclist with an incredibly busy schedule. His work often keeps him out of town on weekdays, and what little riding time he has falls late in the day on weekends. We struggle to ride together as I spend much of my road time ripping around
- [Norton's New Direction](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/11/05/nortons-new-direction/) - After hyping their 2026 motorcycle lineup with the intensity of the Ali/Foreman rematch, England’s Norton Motorcycles revealed a four bike roster at this week’s EICMA show that leaves many puzzled about the company’s future. Hints had been dropping since summer of a re-engineered version of Norton’s V4 superbike that had been produced in small batches
- [The Italian British Cafe Racer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/10/30/the-italian-british-cafe-racer/) - Friends who attended the recent Classic TT races on the Isle of Man insisted the motorcycle competing there that best embodies the true cafe racer spirit just happens to be made in Italy, not the UK. The svelte, handsomely designed Paton Lightweight that's propelled Irish racing legend Michael Dunlop to two of his record 33
- [Mecum Las Vegas Behind The Scenes Tour](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/10/20/mecum-las-vegas-behind-the-scenes-tour/) - Few events on our calendar are as enjoyable as Cafe Racer magazine's annual VIP Tours of the Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction staging area. During the amazing sale of over 1,000 rare, classic and extremely desirable machines held at the sprawling South Point casino and hotel, buyers get to watch just about every motorcycle they've
- [End of A Very Fast Road](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/10/09/end-of-a-very-fast-road/) - Word recently spread about the sale and possible closing of Pitt Race, the Pittsburgh region's premiere- and might I add, only- motorsports racing facility. The track is located in Wampum, beaver County, just 40 miles from the city center and since 2003 has provided gearheads from throughout the region and state with a safe, professional
- [Bedtime for Your Bike](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/10/03/bedtime-for-your-bike/) - For the past 16 years, CRM's resident technical editor and ace mechanic Matt Wiley has provided readers (and staffers) with invaluable information on maintaining our rides. Matt's decades in the motorcycle industry - whether we're taking racing paddocks or as atop technician for So Cal suspension experts Race Tech - has provided him with endless
- [Spencer Davis October 18th Auction](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/09/22/spencer-davis-october-18th-auction/) - People routinely stop by the CRM garage asking if we've got a line on any classic bikes for winter projects, restorations or just plain riding. And while there's plenty of websites offering classic rides of various descriptions (and quality) auctions are still, by far, your best bet for finding well-loved, carefully selected vintage motorcycles. Just
- [CRM's Most Loved Utility Player](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/09/15/crms-most-loved-utility-player/) - It's with heavy hearts that we had to bid farewell to longtime CRM team member George Krisher, who passed away recently age 70. George was an avid motorcyclist for most of his adult life, serving as a member and officer of both the local law enforcement riding club The Blue Knights and with the local
- [End of The Line for Norton's Commando](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/09/05/end-of-the-line-for-nortons-commando/) - There's been no shortage of speculation among CRM's staff and readership concerning the future of the re-born (or should I describe it as re-re-born) Norton Motorcycle Company. After shedding its previous management that had led the firm into an investment scandal and the properties being sold off to Indian transportation firm TVS in 2021, the
- [Guerrilla Warfare](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/08/29/guerrilla-warfare/) - We were thrilled to receive an invite to the recent press launch of the Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450, an all-new street machine from the popular Indian manufacturer. Re has a long track record of introducing new motorcycles that are engineered for just the ingredients many of today's riders are looking for, from lightweight design making
- [Dedicated To Speed](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/08/21/dedicated-to-speed/) - I recently spent a weekend at an AHRMA regional roadrace at Pitt Race, my local circuit. I've long been curious about the goings-on within this, the nation's largest and oldest antique motorcycle racing body, as I'm curious about getting back on track after several years absence. During the early-to-mid 200s, I was a genuine track
- [Jolly Good Show](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/08/06/jolly-good-show/) - The motorcycles are back in their respective garages, the sponsor banners stored away and another Cafe Racer Ride-In Custom Show is in the books. A heartfelt thanks to everyone who made this year's event possible and we're all grateful for how many folks who visited from cities and towns across the map. Most everyone approached
- [Who Will The People Choose?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/07/29/who-will-the-people-choose/) - 17 Years of Memorable Machines When the hand-made, painstakingly designed motorcycles begin rolling into the Ride-In Bike Show on Sunday, crowd reactions always tell a story. Attendees often cease conversations with old friends to gape at a pristine classic that’s been restored to showroom condition, while clusters of people stride to keep pace with a
- [Arai Helmets For Bike Show Winners](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/07/21/arai-helmets-for-bike-show-winners/) - We're extremely proud to announce that Arai helmets, the world's leading manufacturer of cutting-edge motorcycle helmets, has donated a pair of their Corsair full-fac lids to this year's Ride-In Bike Show. If you've never worn an Arai lid while riding your motorbike, their superior engineering, fit and protective qualities are unparalleled, creating a feeling of
- [Made in America at Vanson](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/07/16/made-in-america-at-vanson/) - On Saturday, July 19, from 12–3 PM, Boston's Vanson Leathers is hosting anevent that’s all about what it really takes to make things in Americatoday. They’re calling it: Real Talk, Real People, Real Made in USA—and that’s exactly what it is. The crew at America's top riding leathers manufacturer will be joined by Rachel Slade,
- [Faster Than A Speeding Wristband](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/07/10/faster-than-a-speeding-wristband/) - We recently spent a hectic, sweat-inducing weekend at the Moto GP round held at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Accepting a press invitation to cover the two-wheeled equivalent of F1 was not an easy choice for CRM< as we'd attended a previous Moto GP race and had a lousy time of it. This
- [Sell Your Classic Bike, Help Student Mechanics](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/07/01/sell-your-classic-bike-help-student-mechanics/) - Vermont’s Classic Bike Experience is one of the only motorcycle repair shops to focus on the past while embracing the future. For several years, shop proprietor Jack Manning has encouraged area high school students to learn the craft of building and maintaining classic British motorcycles. These after-school mechanical jam sessions are known as The Guild
- [A Stop In Time](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/06/25/a-stop-in-time/) - Our stalwart contributor Blair Powell recently had a chance to test a part of his 2019 Royal Enfield Continental GT's technology he hoped he'd never see: the anti-lock braking system. The owner of several classic machines of various vintages, Blair is not much for modern motorcycles, let alone the sort of computer-controlled safety features that
- [Save or Surrender?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/06/17/save-or-surrender/) - The latest issue of Cafe Racer magazine feature a pair of classic British custom rides that share a common origin despite being designed and constructed 5,000 miles apart. Both the Matchless twin hailing from So Cal's Classic British Spares' Malcolm Ede and the quick, purely '60s hybrid Triton from England's Robert Taylor were cobbled together
- [Win Big On Style and Protection](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/06/12/win-big-on-style-and-protection/) - My wife of 31 years has grown well exhausted with my ceaseless griping about motorcyclists who ride with no gear on. Most of the riders we see during our regular two-wheeled journeys are dressed as if they're headed to a beach volleyball game rather than a potential high-speed contact with pavement. It's useless to gripe
- [Kickbacks](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/06/04/kickbacks/) - Cafe Racer magazine's 99th issue for June and July has just hit the streets and this time, we've focused on a vanishing aspect of motorcycling: the art of kickstarting. The last production streetbike featuring a kickstart-only ignition system may have bitten the dust with the recent demise of Yamaha's seriously retro SR 400 single, but
- [Booted Up](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/05/27/booted-up-2/) - Selecting the right pair of riding boots can be a complex matter. While many riders prefer to buzz around wearing whatever footwear they happen to have on when they decide to fire up their rides, experience (and emergency room visits) has taught us that protective footwear is a non-negotiable item. Unfortunately, some folks- me included-
- [Booted Up](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/05/27/booted-up/) - Selecting the right pair of riding boots can be a complex matter. While many riders prefer to buzz around wearing whatever footwear they happen to have on when they decide to fire up their rides, experience (and emergency room visits) has taught us that protective footwear is a non-negotiable item. Unfortunately, some folks- me included-
- [Bid In Comfort](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/05/16/bid-in-comfort/) - There's an undeniable excitement to attending a classic motorcycle auction in person. The thrill of witnessing rare, historic machines from the past and recent past, combined with the possibility of bidding on a bike you've always desired creates a heady, unforgettable atmosphere. Nevertheless, our lives are busier than ever these days and finding the time
- [Kickin' It Old School](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/05/08/kickin-it-old-school/) - Coming up in Cafe Racer magazine's next issue is a section dedicated exclusively to one of the motorcycle world's most divisive components: the kickstarter. Loved by some and cursed by just as many, these calf-stressing, backfiring and occasionally reluctant starting systems have left an indelible mark on the sport of motorcycling. Asa sign of just
- [Adjusted Focus](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/05/01/adjusted-focus/) - Technology moves at a fairly rapid pace and after nearly two decades publishing Cafe Racer magazine, it's become apparent just how quickly the magazine game changes. Back when we first put together issue #1, capturing video footage or on-board images of a moving motorbike involved lashing a three-pound video camera to a machine or shooting
- [Best-Sellers List](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/04/25/best-sellers-list/) - Simply by observing what sort of two-wheelers I see during a typical ride here in Western Pennsylvania, it appears that heavyweight V-twin cruisers are still the mount of choice. The frequently loud, rumbling heavyweights are followed by supersport 600s and liter-class superbikes, all seemingly ridden by youngsters determined to qualify for the next Moto GP
- [Shopkeeping](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/04/15/shopkeeping/) - Looking through some paperwork in the CRM office's overstuffed file cabinets recently, I unearthed a copy of the original rental agreement on our first garage space. The magazine has been launched back in 2008, but in just two years, had become successful enough to warrant relocating the back issues storage, editorial offices and motorcycle storage
- [Escort Duty](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/04/08/escort-duty/) - In Cafe Racer magazine's all-new April/May issue, we continue our coverage of working motorcycles and the fascinating ways riders make a living on two wheels. While attending a few new streetbike press launches over the years, we became mightily impressed by the razor-sharp traffic control and group riding techniques displayed by one Jim Faria of
- [Showtime!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/03/23/showtime-3/) - Cafe Racer Custom Show Returns For the first time in two long years, Cafe Racer’s Ride-In Custom Show returns to Sewickley’s War Memorial Park on Sunday, August 3. The crew took a break in 2024, but you, our dedicated readers, filled our in-boxes with enough impassioned demands that the event return for another year, and
- [Ebay Fraud Alert](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/03/17/ebay-fraud-alert/) - If you're like many on the CRM Team, you occasionally purchase aftermarket motorcycle parts from Ebay. The world's largest online auction site is a mixed bag of sales, as parts and accessories suppliers from around the world all offer their wares without much in the way of verifications, references or means to determine the legitimacy
- [FTR No More?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/03/11/ftr-no-more/) - I first got a chance to test ride Indian's flat track-inspired FTR 1200 back in 2019. The uniquely-styled V-twin was teh first true performance machine to emerge from Indian at the time and like many riders, I was excited about experiencing just what an American manufacturer could bring to the fast streetbike game. American motorcycle
- [Shotgun Central](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/03/03/shotgun-central/) - Inspired By Custom, For Custom. That’s the official tag line for Royal Enfield’s Shotgun 650, the Indian firm’s latest incarnation of their globally-popular, parallel twin lineup. The Shotgun was released last summer and immediately seduced custom motorcycle enthusiasts with its voluptuous lines, frisky performance and easy adaptability. RE kept things real with the Shotgun, avoiding
- [Give Us A Brake](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/02/25/give-us-a-brake/) - The stopping and cornering capabilities of our 1974 Norton Commando 850 has been improved in ways the engineers at the British factory could have never imagined. High-tech running gear was molasses-in-January slow to reach British motorcycles back in the 1960s and '70s, even though disc brakes had been standard issue on many British cars and
- [FIRST RIDE Royal Enfield Shotgun 650](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/02/20/first-ride-royal-enfield-shotgun-650/) - Story by Mike Seate • Photos by Nikki Marie Photography As British manufacturers discovered more than half a century ago, line-ups can expand quite easily by de­signing new motorcycles around existing engine plat­forms. Indian’s Royal Enfield struck sales gold in 2018 with their versatile 650cc parallel twin engine introduced in the Continental GT cafe racer
- [FIRST RIDE MV Agusta Dragster America](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/02/20/first-ride-mv-agusta-dragster-america/) - Stars & Stripes for a Razor-Sharp Italian Story By Mike Seate and Jay LaRossaPhotos By Jose Gallina, MV Agusta and Mike Seate Jose warned Jay and me that the new, 2024 MV Agusta Dragster RR SCS America was an attention-getter. As he wheeled it from the trailer at our test ride gathering spot, his words
- [FIRST RIDE BMW F900 GS](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/02/20/first-ride-bmw-f900-gs/) - Story by Mike Seate • Photos by Kevin Wing/BMW Motorrad I know what you’re thinking, faithful readers, what’s a bloody adventure bike doing in Cafe Racer Magazine, and in an issue dedicated to Serious Speed, no less. We wondered much the same when invited to sample the new-for-2024 BMW F900GS in the ­Nevada desert. Aesthetically,
- [Modern History The Ace Cafe’s 30th Anniversary](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/02/20/modern-history-the-ace-cafes-30th-anniversary/) - Story by Mike Seate • Photos by Simon Everett Three rapid-paced decades have zipped by since London’s Ace Cafe held its first reunion party. Back then, the once-popular transport cafe had been bought by a tire changing firm, its tall bay windows filled with lifts for cars and its coffee bar serving up axle lube
- [CR TECH Lithium Batteries Explained](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/02/20/cr-tech-lithium-batteries-explained/) - CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Differentiating different batteries: A traditional AGM or sealed lead acid battery (1) is larger and far heavier than a Firepower lithium cell battery (2), which is equipped with a built-in LED test light, and the tiny Shorai lithium battery (3). Story and Photos by Mike Seate We’ve experienced a love-loathe
- [Bandit in Disguise](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/02/17/bandit-in-disguise/) - Over the past 17 years, some of my favorite custom bike photo features we've run in Cafe Racer magazine have focused on motorcycles no one would ever suspect of making great canvasses for modification. The brilliantly conceived Suzuki bandit designed and built by Upstate, New York's BCP Customs is just such a machine. The sleek,
- [AIME At The Future](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/02/11/aime-at-the-future/) - We're just back from the annual AIME Powerspots Expo in Las Vegas, a multifaceted event that reveals the coming trends in streetbikes and all the cool, innovative kit that comes with them. Straight from the off, it was reassuring to see how strongly represented the cafe racer movement remains going into 2025. Nearly every OEM
- [Where The Rocker Scene Thrives](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/01/27/where-the-rocker-scene-thrives/) - We recently heard from a longtime pal of Cafe Racer magazine, one Hiro Madea of Kobe, Japan. The 45 year-old is a veritable wellspring of energy and ideas in the country's classic motorcycle and ton-up culture movements and for our February/March issue, he's contributed some of his unique motorcycle photography to the mix. We first
- [Trucks, Stopped](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/01/20/trucks-stopped/) - Longtime readers of Cafe Racer magazine will know we're beyond skeptical when it comes to the rush to fill our roads with autonomous vehicles. The tecchies see a veritable gold rush in an unproven technology that rightfully strikes fear into the hearts of the two-wheeled community. A few years back I interviewed a representative from
- [Streetbike Sales Remain Steady](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/01/09/streetbike-sales-remain-steady/) - The US streetbike market remained flat in 2024 according to international Motorcycle industry analysts MC Data. The Rome, Italy-based firm reports that 462,641 new stereetbikes sold in our country last year, despite a roaring stock market and healthy economy. Harley-Davidson is among the biggest losers with dismal third quarter sales and declining numbers overall The
- [Making The Most of Downtime](https://www.caferacermag.com/2025/01/02/making-the-most-of-downtime/) - We've enjoyed a warmer than usual fall here in Western Pennsylvania, filling the memory books with memories of leafy rides through colorful foliage and days when we had to look twice at the calendar to remind ourselves that yes, this is December and we’re still aboard two wheels. Mother Nature and Old Man Winter had
- [Mecum VIP Tours Contest  Extended](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/12/22/mecum-vip-tours-contest-extended/) - Readers who are interested in joining Cafe Racer magazine's crew as we host a weekend of VIP tours of the amazing pre-staging area of the Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction have two additional weeks to sign up to win. The tours are to be held on Thursday, January 30 and Friday, the 31st starting at
- [A Tantalizing Twin](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/12/17/a-tantalizing-twin/) - After nearly 18 years of publishing Cafe Racer magazine, we've amassed quite an impressive library of high-quality motorcycle images. Some of the custom rides we've featured are truly unforgettable, their innovation and groundbreaking qualities sticking with us for years. One such machine is the Aprilia RSV Mille-powered special built back in 2010 by Welshman John
- [Jay Leno's Best Cafe Racer Story](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/12/09/jay-lenos-best-cafe-racer-story/) - A few years back we were fortunate enough to spend a day hanging out at the amazing and very active three-building compound that makes up Jay leno's Garage. The buildings are filled to overflowing with exotic cars and motorcycles of every description and the veteran comedian and dedicated gearhead is a welcoming host if ever
- [Bigger Enfield Cafe Racer Coming?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/12/02/bigger-enfield-cafe-racer-coming/) - In a new streetbike season already revealing India's Roya Enfield to be leading the way with several revolutionary new models, news has recently surfaced of the coming release of a bigger, bolder neo-cafe racer model. These spy shots of a long-rumored 750cc version of the globally popular Continental GT twin confirm the Chennai firm have
- [Regretfully Letting Go](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/11/21/regretfully-letting-go/) - With a steady schedule of acquiring, revamping and road testing classic and custom motorbikes, the CRM garage tends to get overfilled this time of year. There's room to store and time to ride only so many bikes iun a given week, so tough decisions occasionally have to be made and the herd thinned. So with
- [New Bike Bonanza](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/11/12/new-bike-bonanza/) - Fall is the best season for those of us excited by the new batch of street machines emerging from the R&D teams at the world's motorcycle manufacturers. In Milan, Italy, the annual EICMA industry showcase is held, a sort of Fashion Week for the two-wheeled set where everything from concept bikes to high-tech accessories and
- [FIRST RIDE - Suzuki GSX-8S](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/11/08/first-ride-suzuki-gsx-8s/) - All-Around Practicality and a Side of Thrills Story by Mike Seate • Photos by Jose Gallina When you think quick sharp-handling Suzuki, you think in-line four with a screaming, five-figure powerband, right? Bikes like Suzuki’s GSX-R line have not only defined the Japanese firm since 1985, but set standards for sporty road and track machines.
- [FIRST RIDE - Aprilia Tuono 660 Factory](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/11/08/first-ride-aprilia-tuono-660-factory/) - Power, Precision and Presence Story by Mike Seate and Jay LaRossa Photos by Jose Gallina The first thing that catches your attention about the new Aprilia Tuono 660 is the growl. The sound of the parallel twin engine’s pistons thrashing furiously along the cylinders is about a subtle as a lion stalking an antelope and
- [BMW R129t In The House](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/11/04/bmw-r129t-in-the-house/) - Gotta love new streetbike season! It’s that tike of year when our partners in the motorcycle industry drop off new motorcycles for the CRM team to test ride, the first of which has been this amazing, 2025 BMW R129t. The retro roadster combines the best of classic, neo-cafe styling with the fastest, fiercest version of
- [Parallel Universe](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/10/29/parallel-universe/) - In Cafe Racer's current October/November issue, we look into one of the more fascinating technoloigical developments in recent motorcycle engine design: the rebirth of the parallel twin. Though this side-by-side engine type had become ubiquitous in British motorcycles during teh middle 20th Century, by the late 1990s, they were hard to find in new motorcycle
- [Getting Back On Two Wheels](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/10/21/getting-back-on-two-wheels/) - In Cafe Racer magazine's latest October/November issue, our columnist and longtime rider Anthony Conroy shares some deeply personal experiences with our readers. After several decades aboard two wheels, he suffered a serious illness that resulted in the amputation of his right leg below the knee. I won't get into the details, but Connie, as his
- [A Fitting Thruxton Replacement](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/10/15/a-fitting-thruxton-replacement/) - Much has been said and even more rumored about just what sort of motorcycle would replace Triumph’s speedy, sharp-looking Bonneville Thruxton. The factory cafe racer has been a hot seller around the world since the early 200s when the air-cooled, 865cc version captured a sizeable market share for its racy, retro 1960s looks and unintimidating
- [The Ultimate Cafe Racer Road](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/10/03/the-ultimate-cafe-racer-road/) - Every motorcycle rider has a mental list of their favorite riding spots, a compilation usually dictated by teh sort of bike they ride. I've known stunt riders who were content to rip massive wheelies along city bridges and Florida causeways, while my cruiser-mounted friends swear by long, slightly curvy country lanes that challenge neither rider
- [Mecum Las Vegas VIP Contest 2025](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/09/19/mecum-las-vegas-vip-contest-2025/) - For the second year running, 20 lucky Cafe Racer magazine readers will share a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of the massive, five-day Las Vegas Mecum Motorcycle Auction. The nation’s largest powersports auction house will stage the annual event at the South Point Hotel and Casino from Wednesday, January 29 through Sunday, February 2. The event attracts
- [Auction Action Update](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/09/11/auction-action-update/) - A correction of sorts is in order due an error in this issue's Paddock section. We mentioned the upcoming J. Wood and Company Auction slated for Saturday, September 28 that the auction is for "the late" Jack Weaver, though Mr. Weaver, a longtime MX racer from the Northeast, is still very much alive, we're told.
- [Ewan and Charlie Roll Again](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/08/26/ewan-and-charlie-roll-again/) - There's not much motorcycling content on the TV these days as cable's Motor Trend network has gone to an all-cars format and Motoamerca racing is soon to wrap up another season. We just took in some very good news on that front as the intrepid team of Ewan MacGregor and Charlie Boorman have announced another
- [Naked Speed?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/08/16/naked-speed/) - Undoubtedly, this has been a very hot summer riding season. The Pittsburgh area received no fewer than 20 plus-90 degree days which makes daytime riding something of a chore. I've been fortunate enough to own a couple of perforated textile riding jackets and some riding jeans specifically designed to be both protective in case of
- [Serious About Speed](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/08/06/serious-about-speed/) - Cafe Racer magazine's August/September issue is out today and focuses on something we all hold dear to our hearts (and driver's licenses...) Serious Speed. The issue features several stories dedicated to the men and women who take life on two wheels to an entirely different level as they push the envelope of motorcycle performance. Just
- [Custom Scene, 2024](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/31/custom-scene-2024/) - Our stalwart reporter Gary Hallobeck has been steadily traveling this year, visiting as many custom motorbike shows as he can cram into the schedule. In Cafe Racer magazine's August/September issue (out next week) Gary shares some of the inspiring and quite innovative custom cafe racers he's taken in so far. "The bikes on display at
- [30th Anniversary for the Reborn Ace Cafe](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/22/30th-anniversary-for-the-reborn-ace-cafe/) - Coming up on the weekend of September 6 through 9 is the 30th Anniversary of London's Ace Cafe. The festivities will mark quite the occasion for the Ace which first opened in 1938 as a transport cafe, serving motorists and commuters working nearby. The building was struck by German bombing during WWII, suffering considerable damage,
- [Good Year For The Gentlemen](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/15/good-year-for-the-gentlemen/) - Good Year For The Gentleman The annual Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride was moved from September to May this year, resulting in the best turnout yet for the global charity ride. Triumph Motorcycles is one of the event’s main sponsors in North America and reports record growth in money raised for the Movember Foundation, a leading men’s
- [First Ride - Royal Enfield Scram 411](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/12/first-ride-royal-enfield-scram-411/) - Story by Nick Coumos • Photos by Mike Seate I’ve been interested in Royal Enfield motorcycles for many decades. From the original “Made in England” models through the reproduction period and now the newest models, I have been a fan. I especially liked the idea of the Himalayan when it was first introduced, thinking that
- [First Ride - North American Exclusive](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/12/first-ride-north-american-exclusive/) - Story by Mark Mederski Photos by Andrea Wilson Paying no attention to road tests posted on the internet, or what advertising tells you, why not hop on a new bike and see what you think? No preconceptions. That’s what I did when I got a brief test ride on the new BSA Gold Star. In short,
- [First Ride - MV Agusta Brutale 1000 RS](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/12/first-ride-mv-agusta-brutale-1000-rs/) - Beauty and Beast in One Story by Mike Seate and Jay LaRossaPhotos by MV Agusta and Jose Gallina Just as the relentless arms race of race-replica sportbikes dies down, another full-bore contest has begun. This one pits motorcycle manufacturers against each other in a no-holds-barred race where the fastest, most powerful hyper­bike still wins, only
- [First Ride - Harley-Davidson LiveWireONE™](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/12/first-ride-harley-davidson-livewireone/) - Future Meets Past in Pollution-Free Hog Story by Jay LaRossa and Mike SeatePhotos by Mike Seate and Jose Gallina We’d been eagerly awaiting the chance to plant our leathers on Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire electric street­bike since its 2021 premiere. Switch­ing from the fabled push­rod-operated V-twin powertrain to a platform that’s powered only by batteries was the
- [First Ride - 2022 BMW S1000R](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/12/first-ride-2022-bmw-s1000r/) - Plush Performance Personified Story by Mike Seate and Jay LaRossaPhotos by Jose Gallina and Mike Seate Sportbikes, with their back-breakingly low clip-on bars and excruciating riding positions, are dead, goes the theory. They’ve been replaced, for all but dedicated racers and track-day junkies, by high-performance naked bikes that offer slightly more forgiving ergonomics and similar
- [Groundbreaking Moto Guzzis](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/09/groundbreaking-moto-guzzis/) - In Cafe Racer magazine's current June/July issue, we offer readers a complete road test of Moto Guzzi's revolutionary water-cooled V100 Mandello, the first all-new machine from the Italian firm in years. The V100 is everything you might have heard it would be, offering cutting edge performance, corner-carving backroads handling and unique styling in an easy-to-ride
- [Heads-Up For Custom Triumph Heads](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/07/01/heads-up-for-custom-triumph-heads/) - There's always a one that got away moment when you're busy building custom motorcycles. Visitors frequently stop by the CRM garage offering everything from rusty collections of long-defunct motorcycles (always without titles) to busted engines that last ran during the Regan administration. Most times we take a hard pass on piles of junk that will
- [The Bikeriders Event Postponed](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/06/20/the-bikeriders-event-postponed/) - This just in- the lecture by Cafe Racer magazine editor Mike Seate and screening of "The Bikeriders" movie at Sewickley's Lindsay Theater has been postponed for one week. Sorry for any inconvenience, but the week delay will give Seate time to recover from a case of Covid he picked up while traveling earlier this month.
- [Editor Mike Seate to Speak at Bikeriders Movie Premiere](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/06/14/editor-mike-seate-to-speak-at-bikeriders-movie-premiere/) - The Lindsay Celebrates The Bikeriders Opening Weekend with a Local Motorcycle Expert — and His Bike Anyone can watch The Bikeriders at The Lindsay starting June 21. Plus, folks heading to the Theater next Friday will also get to hear from a true motorcycle expert. Moviegoers who are either leaving The Lindsay's 4:30 p.m. showing of The Bikeriders or getting ready
- [A Pack of Life-Savers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/06/11/a-pack-of-life-savers/) - I received a text today from someone seeking repairs on a long-dormant motorcycle. This is far from uncommon as the Cafe Racer magazine garage is frequently mistaken fora general vehicle repair shop, which we certainly are not. When located in Downtown Sewickley, PA. a few years back, our garage door opened onto the patio dining
- [Bikeriders, Books and Buttered Popcorn](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/05/30/bikeriders-books-and-buttered-popcorn/) - The much-anticipated “Bikeriders” movie based on photographer Danny Lyons’ 1968 book of the same name opens on Friday, June 21. I'll be appearing at the Lindsay Theater in Sewickley, PA. (12 miles from Pittsburgh) to introduce the film and discuss Lyons’ work. Back in 2000, I'd authored my first book “Two Wheels on Two Reels”
- [Good Times at Classic Motorcycle Day](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/05/20/good-times-at-classic-motorcycle-day/) - Cafe Racer magazine has been invited to Maryland's Classic Motorcycle Day for the last 10 years or so, and until now, we've always been too busy to attend. The ride from Pittsburgh through rural West Virginia to the leafy hills of Mount Airy is a fine one, and even taking mostly highway routes is a
- [50 Year Birthday party for Vanson](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/05/14/50-year-birthday-party-for-vanson/) - Heads-up all you New England-area vintage and custom riders. Vanson, the maker of high-quality motorcycle leathers and textile riding gear is celebrating their 50th Anniversary the weekend of June first and second. In the motorcycle protective gear game, quite a few firms have come and gone in those five decades while countless market forces and
- [End of The Road for Cafe Racer magazine's Bike Show](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/05/07/end-of-the-road-for-cafe-racer-magazines-bike-show/) - Fifteen years is a very long time to stage a regional custom motorcycle show. It’s an even longer stretch considering the annual Cafe Racer Reader’s Ride-In Custom Show was the country's only ride-in event dedicated to the low-barred, highly modded motorcycles that fuel our collective passions. As much as our dedicated staff and you, our
- [Finding The Perfect Road](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/04/28/finding-the-perfect-road/) - Fresh back from our annual fortnight journey to So Cal to test new streetbikes, there's always a flood of memories competing for brain-space when we return. In the brief timespan we have in the Agoura Hills area, we're constantly on the search for challenging and interesting roads to test the latest naked performance bikes upon,
- [Return of the Parallel Twin](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/04/19/return-of-the-parallel-twin/) - Cafe Racer Magazine's away team headed to sunny So Cal this week for a well-needed update of sorts. We've hit up several major motorcycle manufacturers for test bikes to get a feel for their latest naked performance offerings. Though we hadn't even considered the trend, most of the 2024 streetbikes dropped off at our hotel
- [Royal Enfield Custom Contest Winner's Circle](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/04/03/royal-enfield-custom-contest-winners-circle/) - In the months since announcing the first Royal Enfield Custom Contest, our eyes have been blown open by the sheer adaptability of the Indian-made machines. The global competition has been open to Royal Enfield-branded bikes regardless of year of manufacture, which resulted in readers sharing pics of their handbuilt vintage and modern motorcycles in
- [BSA Gold Star- First US Test Ride](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/03/22/bsa-gold-star-first-us-test-ride/) - As advertised, cafe Racer magazine is the first US publication to throw a leg over the sculpted saddle of the re-born BSA's Gold Star 650. Our test rider Mark Mederski volunteered to evaluate the 21st century take on the British classic single and he returned from the experience wearing a grin large enough to swallow
- [Ten Years Since Cafe Racer TV](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/03/15/ten-years-since-cafe-racer-tv/) - Ten Years Since Cafe Racer TV Times tends to just zip by when you’re busy, causing the mind and memory to override the recent past almost automatically. However, this week marked ten years since the final season of our acclaimed “Cafe Racer TV” series ended production. The series ran for an incredible 56 episodes
- [Workshops Done Right](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/03/08/workshops-done-right/) - Regular readers of Cafe Racer magazine will know our garage is a revolving door of visiting technicians. We're the first motorcycle magazine to devote a sizable portion of each issue to building, designing and maintaining a fleet of customized streetbikes so the need for call-in help is frequent. On occasion, we've had professional mechanics
- [Two-Wheeled Trrue Grit](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/02/25/two-wheeled-trrue-grit/) - Motorcycle riding, be it a sport, a lifestyle or simple, everyday transportation, requires a certain amount of determination. The physical demands of donning the proper riding gear, climbing aboard a two-wheeler and maneuvering it through today’s traffic0clogged roads is not a task for the snowflakes among us. The rigors of traveling by motorcycle become
- [BSA is Back!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/02/16/bsa-is-back/) - The new BSA Gold Star 650 in Deluxe trim It’s a great time of year to be a moto-journalist. The world’s motorcycle manufacturers are steadily rolling out their new-for-2024 machines, and news reports arrive nearly every day, detailing some exotic or unexpected slice of two-wheeled desirability. The ongoing craze for retro-styled streetbikes continues to grow,
- [Tanking Custom Trends](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/02/08/tanking-custom-trends/) - The Benelli Mojave fuel tank on our Yamaha SR500 project bike. A few years back, a single, off-beat motorcycle part came to define the modern custom cafe racer era. The narrow, 2.6-gallon gas tank that first adorned Benelli’s dualsport Mojave, somehow became the go-to custom accessory for cafe racer builders the world over. Scroll through
- [Unpredictable Pricing At Mecum Auction](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/01/31/unpredictable-pricing-at-mecum-auction/) - The CRM team made our way to last weekend’s Mecum Motorcycle Auction at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for the first time in several years. First-timer Blair Powell was eager to witness an event he’d been hearing about for years. Being the owner of a half-dozen classic bikes, he was,
- [Royal Enfield Custom Contest Rolls On](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/01/23/royal-enfield-custom-contest-rolls-on/) - Opening the email each week has become a sought-after task here at CRM as the bevy of customized Royal Enfields rolling in for our Custom Contest are taking everyone here by surprise. Not only have we heard from some of the top professional motorcycle designers and builders in Royal Enfield’s native India, but
- [Improving Perfection](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/01/15/improving-perfection/) - Since first spotting the sleek and muscular 1995 Triumph Speed Triple in a local motorcycle dealership, I’ve been a huge fan of the first-generation British triples. They emerged onto the streetbike scene at a time when sportbikes ruled the roads in many places and the early-to-mid 1990s Triumphs were sporty without being garish in their
- [Staying True to A Concept](https://www.caferacermag.com/2024/01/07/staying-true-to-a-concept/) - Oftentimes when we're wrenching on one motorcycle project or another, Nick Coumos, our resident Norton guru, will remind me that he's not well-versed in Japanese or European motorcycles. Nick is a gifted technician, having ridden and repaired classic Nortons since, well, since before they were considered classic motorcycles at all. And though I respect
- [The Tough Art of Selling Used Motorcycles](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/12/29/the-tough-art-of-selling-used-motorcycles/) - Much has been written online as of late concerning the difficulties involved in selling used streetbikes. For years, proffering pre-owned machines was relatively simple; you placed an ad with cycletrader.com, eBay or Facebook Marketplace and soon thereafter, offers came rolling in. And not just offers to buy your motorcycle, but legitimate offers from punters genuinely interested
- [License Plate Larceny](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/12/19/license-plate-larceny/) - As someone who's been buying, selling and swapping streetbikes for over 40 years, I've convinced myself of being fairly street smart at this game. I'm careful about where I park my motorcycles when visiting malls, sporting events and other large, exposed parking areas. And I've grown downright cautious when it comes to allowing strangers to
- [Keep An Eye Our For Furry Friends](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/12/11/keep-an-eye-our-for-furry-friends/) - Chris Snatcho on his Suzuki GS450 that survived a crash with a road-hogging whitetail deer. It’s that time of year when the last, few warm days make shot rides very tempting. In our region, we’ve yet to see any measurable snowfall and sunshine is quite common, despite the days being at their shortest. Still,
- [New Norton Drought Continues](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/11/30/new-norton-drought-continues/) - The 2024 Commando 961 Special 125th Anniversary Edition. Not for sale in this country Several Cafe Racer magazine readers have asked us about the wheres and when of purchasing a 961 Commando from the re-born Norton Motorcycle Company. On gentleman spoke with several member of our team at the most recent Reader’s Ride-In Bike Show
- [Win This Bike](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/11/21/win-this-bike/) - It's nearing the time of year when folks expect to get a few items for free, though these are generally found beneath the tree parked, sparkling in our living rooms. Our friends at Ton-Up Clothing/Red Torpedo are giving away a present next month that I'm sure any rider worth their well-worn leathers will appreciate, a
- [A Global Customizing Trend](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/11/15/a-global-customizing-trend/) - We'd seen bikes on global websites and in images from custom motorcycles shows of modified Royal Enfields but had no real idea as to the scope and popularity of these adaptable machines. Not until we launched the Royal Enfield Custom Contest, that is. In case you haven't hear, cafe Racer magazine has teamed up
- [There's Imitation and Then There's The 1200 Custom](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/11/08/theres-imitation-and-then-theres-the-1200-custom/) - It was bound to happen. Harley-Davidson ended their 60-plus year run of producing their beloved XL series Sportsters in late 2021, leaving the newfangled, water-cooled and very rapid 1250s and its 975cc stablemate the Nightster as their sole Sportster models. There's been a decent response to the new 1250s and for good reason- it
- [A Retro-Flavored Future](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/11/01/a-retro-flavored-future/) - While building, riding and maintaining classic cafe racers holds charms and rewards you just don't experience with a modern ride, plenty of custom bike enthusiasts have taken the altogether different route: they modify new school motorcycles to look like classics. Some purists- folks with muscular kickstart legs and grease permanently embedded beneath their fingernails- would
- [Keep On Draggin'](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/10/24/keep-on-draggin/) - Buzzing around some of the local hilly backroads recently, I spotted a group of motorcycles parked by a roadside BBQ restaurant and decided to pull in. The assembled bikes were a mixture of hardcore sportbikes with full fairings, a couple of performance nakeds and a BMW R9T or two. One fellow sat proudly aboard
- [Elvis' Bikes Have Left The Building!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/10/11/elvis-bikes-have-left-the-building/) - Many are the urban legends surrounding motorcycles owned and ridden by Elvis Presley. The so-called King of Rock and Roll was an avid motorcyclist during most of his career, appearing on the cover of Harley-Davidson's house publication "The Enthusiast" in 1956 aboard a new Sportster. Unsubstantiated tales have surfaced over the years about various
- [Big Happenings At Barber](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/10/05/big-happenings-at-barber/) - If you're into vintage bikes, roadracing or just checking out the world's best motorcycle museum, Barber Motorsports Park is THE place to be this weekend. The annual Barber Vintage Festival kicks off today, and the event has quickly become the country's biggest and most multifaceted vintage biking celebration. Emerging as a sort of
- [Win A VIP Tour of Mecum Las Vegas Hosted By Us](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/09/24/win-a-vip-tour-of-mecum-las-vegas-hosted-by-us/) - Fastlane News Win A VIP Tour At Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycles 2024 Hosted By Editor Mike Seate Story By Paul D. Stanstead Photos CRM Archive/Mecum Come the week of January 24-27, the massive Mecum Motorcycle Auction returns to the South Point Hotel Casino and Spa in Las Vegas. One of the most widely
- [You Can't Get That Here](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/09/13/you-cant-get-that-here/) - During our global travels, we've often taken notice of some extraordinary motorcycles that aren't for sale here in the US. The marketing of streetbikes is a complex business endeavor made by boardrooms full of well-trained sales researchers who (claim to) know what motorcycles would or would not sell to certain populations. We were fairly awestruck
- [A Cool View of Japanese Cafe Culture](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/09/06/a-cool-view-of-japanese-cafe-culture/) - On summer days when the mercury creeps over the 90 degree mark, I often find riding motorcycles to be a bit uncomfortable. Being an all riding gear all the time guy, when the humidity makes even riding in perforated, lightweight gear a hassle, I'll retreat into the garage or office to re-direct my energies.
- [Here's To Spending Small and Winning Big](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/08/29/heres-to-spending-small-and-winning-big/) - It's my honest opinion that a large part of what eventually sunk the custom chopper movement from the early 200s was the extravagant costs. Never mind that the original, 1960s choppers were stripped-down, very basic machines that emphasized speed and style over practicality, the later versions of these rigid-framed motorcycles had ballooned into grotesque
- [Build Train Race Champ for 2023](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/08/23/build-train-race-champ-for-2023/) - Motorcycle roadracing has never been as popular with the public here in the Us as it is overseas. Some say it's due the sheer dominance of so-called stick-and-ball sports like basketball and football, while others claim the lack of diversity in motorcycle racing makes it hard for minorities and women to relate. That may all
- [Another Show Another Crop of Amazing Machines](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/08/16/another-show-another-crop-of-amazing-machines/) - The 2023 Cafe Racer Magazine Reader's Ride-In Custom Show concluded Sunday afternoon with the best field of entries yet to date. In addition to crowing our first-ever female trophy winner, the assembled field of 50-plus bikes included some sleek, cover-worthy customs, painstakingly restored antiques and classics plus plenty of the sort of speedy,
- [Best Beginner Rides](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/08/13/best-begginer-rides/) - With the emergence of the Chinese streetbike market (see Open Mike Pg.6), and both Triumph and Royal En- field launching all-new beginner-friendly machines, 2023 is looking like an optimum time to be a newbie rider. Nearly every motorcycle showroom is stocked with easy-to-master machines engineered with rider-friendly hardware specifically targeted to learners. Amenities like slip-assist clutches, low
- [India’s Latest Neo-Retro Single](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/08/13/indias-latest-neo-retro-single/) - Like any moto journalist, I jump at the chance to test ride new motorcycles. This generally involves free travel, meals and accommodation in some faraway, sunny locale, and plentiful time aboard a factory-fresh machine. However, when said invite entails riding a small-displacement commuter bike, one’s expectations are somewhat diminished. Single-cylinder 350s are not expected to
- [The Everyday, Everybody Triumph Triple](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/08/13/the-everyday-everybody-triumph-triple/) - Jay has just stepped off the 660cc Triumph Trident after a spirited 45-mile ride through the foothills of Southern California’s Santa Monica Mountains. It’s nearing dusk and even though the temperature is unusually cool for this time of year, he encountered several other quick motorcycle riders with intimate knowledge of these twisty, high desert roads.
- [First Chance On A New Breed of Bike](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/08/10/first-chance-on-a-new-breed-of-bike/) - Two of Moto Morini's new, water-cooled 650cc V-twins. demos will be on offer at Sunday's show. Moto Morini's beloved 3 1/2 factory cafe racer We’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of 2023 streetbikes from Italy’s Moto Morini, an iconic brand know to fans of their sweet, factory cafe racer 3/12. The bright red V-twin
- [A Profusion of Polished Alloy](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/08/01/a-profusion-of-polished-alloy/) - There are several elements that comprise a timeless cafe racer motorcycle, from the non-nonsense, stripped-down design to the emphasis on pure, unfettered performance. And whether your ride is a classic, Mid-Century British twin or single, a Japanese multi-cylinder screamer or a modern bike done-up like a custom race replica, a few polished aluminum bodywork
- [Winners in Their Own Right](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/07/24/winners-in-their-own-right/) - Our current June/July issue features coverage of the past winners of our annual reader's Ride-In show's top honors, and the story chronicles a broad array of trophy-worthy custom motorcycles. However, looking into back issue files for these images, we relaized the events have drawn in hundreds of machines that were created with the same
- [British Bikes on The Tube](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/07/11/british-bikes-on-the-tube/) - After decades of TV and movie producers only utilizing motorcycles for nefarious purposes, it's been a long overdue relief to witness an alternative. In recent years, my wife and I - both admitted addicts of British whodunnits- have noticed directors inserting bikes into scripts to interesting effect. I first noticed this in the popular
- [Triumph's New 400 Singles](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/06/27/triumphs-new-400-singles/) - If yo u follow the motorcycle industry, it's not exactly a secret that most manufacturers are looking for new customers. The average age of an American rider these days is around 54 years old and the OEM (original equipment manufacturers) are looking to attract more youthful riders who will be active on two wheels for
- [Track Day Origins](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/06/22/track-day-origins/) - Receiving unsolicited emails and images through the office in-box has proven one of the most satisfying parts of running a motorcycle magazine. over the past decade and a half, we've opened messages containing some truly odd requests (including one from a reader who sincerely wished to see our female contributor's mud-wrestle each other!0 to
- [Fresh, Funky Customs From Italy](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/06/12/fresh-funky-customs-from-italy/) - It's always agas to see how the custom motorcycle scene is developing in faraway locations. The individual approaches to creating unique two-wheelers varies from country to country and seldom do trends from one nation translate to another. Each year. we're pleased to have freelancers send us images from the wide world of International custom motorcycle
- [A Promising Start](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/05/27/a-promising-start/) - With publication of Cafe Racer magazine's 15th Anniversary Issue just around the bend, we took a long, wistful look back at some of the incredibly creative and mechanically gifted people who've helped fill our pages with their custom motorbikes over the years. This issue, our June/July, 2023 will be the 87th though with the
- [A Dip In The Market?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/05/17/a-dip-in-the-market/) - Last issue we previewed the final sell-off of several significant, historic two-wheelers built and raced by Dave Degens of England’s legendary Dresda Tritons. The bikes went under the gavel on the weekend of April 23 and the low bids these and other rare British classics drew was a boon to buyers and a disappointment
- [A Truly Speedy Twin](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/05/03/a-truly-speedy-twin/) - One of the most enduringly popular modern retro motorcycles to emerge in recent years is Triumph's 1200cc Bonneville platform. The new generation machines emerged in 2016, replacing the previous air-cooled, 900cc Bonnevilles that were hot-sellers on their own. However, the 1200cc Bonneville platform offered a whole new level of performance over the 58-odd horsepower
- [Recognizing Incredible Talent and Vision](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/04/27/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 Reader's ride-In Show. As this year's event draws closer on Sunday, August 15th here
- [Riding Runs In the Family](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/04/16/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 women's family owned a pizza shop, brewery or, ultimately, a motorcycle
- [Long Overdue Props](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/03/31/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 work with two of them. Both Kim Love, our esteemed managing editor and
- [Bid On Bikes From Home](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/03/20/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 selection of motorcycles and memorabilia owned not by
- [Where's The Coverage?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/03/09/wheres-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 considered America's premiere motorcycle competition. I remember gathering
- [Where's Your Cafe?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/02/28/wheres-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 restaurant on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. On weekends, both eateries
- [The Future is Now In Las Vegas](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/02/17/the-future-is-now-in-las-vegas/) - It's been quite some time since the Cafe Racer Magazine crew attended a motorcycle industry show. Too many office and garage duties keep us busier than the proverbial one-legged man in the ass kicking contest. This week is different. We flew out to Las Vegas for the AIME Powersports Expo and we're glad
- [The Gentlemanly Thing To Do](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/02/08/the-gentlemanly-thing-to-do/) - Our latest issue's stunning cover image is culled from a fascinating new book chronicling the first ten years of a global phenomenon in motorcycling. "A Decade of Dapper" intimately covers the creation, growth and people behind the Distinguished gentleman's Ride, a worldwide charity run aiding men's health initiatives. The event started in Australia back
- [Custom Bikes In Prison](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/01/24/custom-bikes-in-prison/) - Coming up in Cafe Racer magazine's February/March issue, we feature an exclusive photo spread from inside a prison. Yes, thanks to our ace photographer Simon Everett, the images were shot at a custom motorcycle show staged in England's Gloucester Penitentiary, a unique location for the annual Kickback Motorcycle Show that's staged in
- [Ton-Up TV Rolls On](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/01/13/ton-up-tv-rolls-on/) - Those of you who were dedicated fans of Cafe Racer TV may or may not have caught the buzz, but our video chronicles of custom motorcycle builds is back. In early fall, we launched the all-new Ton-Up Tv video streaming service, a subscriber-based way to catch up on the most recent happenings in the busy
- [Winter's Hidden Challenges](https://www.caferacermag.com/2023/01/03/winters-hidden-challenges/) - We spent an eventful day wrenching in the CRM garage this week with Adam Bowser, the hardworking owner of PGH Moto, a local cafe racer custom shop. Adam's two-wheeled creations have been featured several times in issues of the mag as his team's ability to locate, rebuild and sell-off some 500- yes, that's 500- custom
- [Working My Way Back To Big Mileage](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/12/19/working-my-way-back-to-big-mileage/) - 2022 draws to a close and I'm refelcting a bit on the 12 months that have passed. The year began with a major surgery to repair several broken bones in my right fot. Though I'm not one to over-share personal information with readers as is quite too commo in this "look-at-me" social media age,
- [The Missing Link](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/12/08/the-missing-link/) - It's coming up on two years since Harley-Davidson first launched their Revolution Max 60 degree water-cooled engine. The powerplant was met with a predictable mixture of confusion and resistance (as witnessed on my Instagram posts from the April, 2021 Sportster 1250S launch) followed by awe from those who'd actually ridden the incredible new machine. The
- [High-Performance Hinckley Thruxton](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/12/01/high-performance-hinckley-thruxton/) - The first-generation Triumph Bonnevilles and Thruxtons were popular beloved machines for a number of reasons. The air-cooled 900cc twins were accessible due their undemanding riding positions and relatively low horsepower parallel twin engines. Though Triumph are said to have sold over 350,000 units between their 2001 introduction and the 2016 model year when the newer,
- [Final Air-Cooled Sportster Built](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/11/21/final-air-cooled-sportster-built/) - On Sunday, November 20, Harley-Davidson announced the final Evolution-engined Sportster rolled off the Motor Company's assembly line. More then 10 million units have bene built and sold since the new engine platform was introduced in 1986 and this will be the final air-cooled Sportster as the bike, in continuous production since 1957, is being replaced
- [The Jacksons Go Biking](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/11/15/the-jacksons-go-biking/) - We came across this incredible image a few months back courtesy of a reader who located it in an old pop music magazine found at a flea market. It depicts the Jackson 5, one of the world's most popular vocal groups showing off the spoils of several years of non-stop touring and recording. The
- [Custom Creativity from Europe](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/11/07/custom-creativity-from-europe/) - Our next issue, due out in the first week of December, not only features coverage of the recent 100th Anniversary celebration of Moto Guzzi, we're [proud to present some rare images from the European Custom Motorcycle Championships also held in Italy this summer. For years, countries like Germany and Sweden were known for their
- [The Ultimate Greaser](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/10/26/the-ultimate-greaser/) - It took a couple of days, but the news of the death of rockabilly legend and vintage motorcycle rider Robert Gordon eventually made its way to the CRM offices. More than a few of us have been longtime fans of the NYC-based retro rocker, who burst onto the global stage back in the late
- [Binary Beemers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/10/21/binary-beemers/) - regular readers of Cafe Racer magazine will notice an uptick in the frequency of classic BMW-based customs being featured in our pages. It seems every couple of issues, we're treated to an invitation to photograph a tasty Teutonic machine that's been radically re-worked by some talented motorcycle engineer which is a great development for
- [Head Start On The Holidays](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/10/10/head-start-on-the-holidays/) - I know, I know, it's barley time for Halloween and pumpkin carving, but I've learned from experience that now is the time to begin shopping for the forthcoming holidays. There's few feelings to match the disappointment of nearing the final days before late december only to find the items you'd made a mental note to
- [A Grand Guzzi Gathering](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/09/15/a-grand-guzzi-gathering/) - Just back from the Moto Guzzi 100th Anniversary celebration in the brand's vibrant, picturesque hometown of Mandello Del Lario, Italy. I long knew that Moto Guzzi was a respected marquee that instilled passion and loyalty in its riders, but the sheer size and enthusiasm of the thousands of riders
- [2022 Show Proves a Hit](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/09/03/2022-show-proves-a-hit/) - It took our crew a good two weeks to recover and re-organize after our August 14th Reader's ride-In Custom Show, evidence of just how much work, dedication and sweat equity our people invest in making the annual event a success. We held steady through a cloudy morning's threat of rain to stage one of
- [Ton-Up TV](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/08/01/ton-up-tv/) - Interview By Gary Hallobeck Last year, we announced the imminent return of Cafe Racer TV that ran on Discovery Velocity network from 2010 to 2015. The series was expected to stream on the Xcelerate platform, but the show’s creator and host (and this magazine’s editor) Mike Seate had other ideas. “After waiting months for the
- [Where Have All The Fighters Gone?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/07/21/where-have-all-the-fighters-gone/) - Trends in custom motorcycles have a tendency to fade away without our noticing much. For a while in the early 100s, rigid framed choppers were common sights at bike nights and rallies both local and national, but suddenly, the pop and roar of their oversized V-twin engines went missing. I've recently noticed the same
- [New Show Attractions](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/07/11/new-show-attractions/) - Planning each year's Reader's Ride-In Custom Show is an exercise in odd jobs as each member of the CRM team has to wear multiple hats in order to make the event happen. In addition to writing stories, manning the desks, wrenching on and test-riding bikes and other none-too-exciting clerical duties, we each take on
- [All Hail Valhalla](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/06/25/all-hail-valhalla/) - Spending the weekend at Chicago's annual Motoblot custom culture festival and yesterday's launch party was one for the books. A capacity crowd surged into the Cobra Lounge starting at 4pm, attracted by the most excellent (excuse Wayne's World reference) craft beer, good bar grub and waaaay too much loud heavy metal music. I was
- [](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/06/16/59284/) - The 59 Club, Rockers and motorcycles in England_WMV V9 For the first few years this publication was in operation, we were fortunate enough to have readers around the world send us images and short films of cafe racing. Spending time in the Uk at various classic motorcycle meets, we met plenty of Ton-Up OG's who
- [VJMC Assembled](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/06/09/vjmc-assembled/) - If you're like most of the CRM staff, you can fondly remember the days when shiny new air-cooled Hondas, Yamahas, Kawasakis and Suzukis graced your local motorcycle dealership's showroom. During my own less-then-distinguished high school years, I routinely took several city busses to visit local motorcycle dealerships where the assorted wares were more enticing
- [Swingin' 60s Time Machine](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/06/02/swingin-60s-time-machine/) - Our June/July issue is set to drop this week and we're quite proud to bring you the cover story which focuses on one of London's best-known cafe bikes. We've been spotting Sean Pescheria's BSA Super Rocket around the British capital for years, having first seen the twin roar into the Ace Cafe parking lot
- [Hot Concept Honda](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/05/26/hot-concept-honda/) - While nearly all the major motorcycle manufacturers have embraced the modern cafe racer movement with a new streetbike design (or two) Honda, the world's largest, has not. It could be argued that the retro-styled CB100 is a nod in that particular direction and the sexy, CB1000R is definitely a high-performance naked bike with
- [Massive At Myrtle](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/05/16/massive-at-myrtle/) - Whether you dig old school Japanese fours, customized, high-powered dragbikes or any over-the-top examples of custom motorcycle culture, you owe it to yourself to experience Atlantic Beach Bike Week at least once. The annual gathering of riders also known as Black Bike Week has been staple of the Deep South riding calendar for at least
- [International Motorcycle Show Canceled](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/05/04/international-motorcycle-show-canceled/) - Planning an event weeks or even months in advance is always tough, especially one that involves thousands of individual businesses, tens of thousands of people and enough logistics to confuse a spreadsheet designer. A culmination of factors resulted in the sudden cancellation of this year's Progressive International Motorcycle Shows, which is unfortunate for
- [How Sweet The First Rides of Spring](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/04/26/how-sweet-the-first-rides-of-spring/) - There comes a time in most riders lives when taking action is the best medicine. Mine came last weekend when the temperature soared into the mid-80s, which is unusual for Western Pennsylvania in April. I'd bene nursing a foot that had undergone a massive, seven-hour reconstructive surgery a couple of months back and doctor's
- [Harley's Sportster Revolution Marches On](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/04/13/harleys-sportster-revolution-marches-on/) - Our Instagram feed seldom goes what the kids call "viral" being as most of Cafe Racer's readers prefer to receive their information in print form. However, last July when we were invited to the press launch for Harley-Davidson's all-new Sportster 1250S, a post revealing the much-anticipated machine drew about 10 times the usual number of
- [Too Fast For The Street?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/04/04/too-fast-for-the-street/) - We’ve all ridden with them. The sort of rider who never misses an opportunity to prove just how fast they and their machines are. On every ride, they’re the type who’s willing to risk all for the chance to reveal that when it comes to covering twisty roads, they’re literally miles ahead of the
- [My Shero](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/03/24/my-shero/) - This being International Women's Month it's high time to give some long-overdue props to one of our own. Kim Love, this publication's managing editor has been a motorcycle rider since the 1990s and has managed to keep two-wheeling a central part of her life throughout. Kim works as a development director at a global medical
- [Hey, Hey, Hey...Make Way For The Heavyweights](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/03/18/hey-hey-hey-make-way-for-the-heavyweights/) - Daytona Bike Week 2022 is in the history books, having wrapped up its whirlwind of two-wheeled activities with the running of last Saturday's Daytona 200 roadrace. Triumph Street Triple rider Brandon Paasch took the checkered flag in that heat, but the races we were focused on involved far less aerodynamic machines. We're referring to
- [Unsung Hero Kawasaki](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/03/11/unsung-hero-kawasaki/) - The current crop of supernaked streetbikes have proven a mold-breaking genre indeed. A generation of riders who had tired of bending themselves into human pretzels to fit on sportbikes have responded in huge numbers to the more forgiving naked sportsters, making then one of the top-selling sectors of the new bike market. One machine that
- [Burnouts Unite!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/02/28/burnouts-unite/) - Besides Moto GP races, baseball games- which, at the moment are on hold due a massive labor dispute- and the odd British mystery series on PBS, I'm not much of a Boob Tube guy. But as we're trapped in the waning days of a long, Pennsylvania winter, I've been spending far too much time
- [Blowin' Up The Vintage Triumphs](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/02/17/blowin-up-the-vintage-triumphs/) - We're absolutely thrilled to bring you our latest issue's cover story that focuses on the efforts of So Cal's Alp Racing. The small-but-skilled proprietor Alp Sungurtekin is one serious speed freak, competing alongside his partner and the issue's striking, badass cover model Jalika Gaskin at Bonneville and other high-velocity venues on some of the
- [Sick, Sexy Sixes](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/02/04/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 looked cool (whatever that meant to 18 year-old me.) A Harley
- [Exotic Chassis - Get 'Em While You Can](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/01/28/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 our Fat Featherbed Triton project. For the uninitiated, the build centers around creating a
- [Anniversary Enfields](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/01/20/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 to be the only denizens of this globe capable of great mechanical craftsmanship. Growing up
- [motorcycles Make For Great Translators](https://www.caferacermag.com/2022/01/12/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 couple of months. In
- [Still Crazy After All These Years](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/12/30/still-crazy-after-all-these-years/) - Story: Linda Wilsmore Photos: Simon Everett Over the past fifty years, Tony Francis aka ‘Ace Rocker’, from Leeds, UK, has owned around thirty motorcycles, including Triumph, BSA, Panther, Matchless, Norton, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, and currently also has a 1955 Triton. Well known on the biking and rock n’ roll scene, he runs the Northern Rockers
- [FIRST RIDE MV Augusta Dragster Rosso](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/12/30/first-ride-mv-augusta-dragster-rosso/) - Story: Alonzo Bodden, Jay LaRossa and Mike Seate “I wish I was 5’8” tall and had younger knees. Then I’d buy this bike and just do track days all the time!” That was comedian-turned motorcycle test jockey Alonzo Bodden’s enthused take after a few quick miles aboard MV Augusta’s scintillating Brutale Dragster triple. The strippeddown
- [Big Changes, Massive Appeal For Flagship Naked](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/12/30/big-changes-massive-appeal-for-flagship-naked/) - Story by Mike Seate, with Chris Abel and Nick Coumos Photos by Mike Seate/Ducati North America Change is controversial, especially in the high-stakes realm of performance streetbikes. In few 2021 models is this more apparent than with Ducati’s radically revamped Monster 950. The machine has boldly done away with much of what made the Monster
- [A Stellar Feat of Engineering](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/12/28/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' Framecrafters is that rare combination of exceedingly great design and serious, no-bullshit performance. In each and
- [Tried and Tested - 2021](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/12/17/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 mortal souls as flying to So Cal, mounting up on a half dozen or
- [The Past is Fast Catching Up To The Future](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/12/08/the-past-is-fast-catching-up-to-the-future/) - While Italy just wrapped up their annual EICMA motorcycle industry showcase, England's NEC Show unfolded with its share of surprises for the two-wheeled fraternity this past week. Chief among the jolts of great news concerning the United Kingdom's burgeoning motorcycle industry is the re-emergence of BSA, a vaunted brand that's been dormant since
- [Cafe Racer TV is Back!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/11/30/cafe-racer-tv-is-back/) - It's been a good five plus years since the TV series known as Cafe Racer wrapped its last episode on Discovery's Velocity motorsports network. Much has changed since then, with teh global cafe racer phenomenon only moving from strength to strength as more riders, builders and manufacturers feed energy into the ton-up motorcycle genre. We
- [Over The Hill](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/11/23/over-the-hill/) - The era of classic British transport cafes is often romanticized on this side of the pond and for good reason. The roadside eateries were among the few places where the original Ton-Up boys and girls could congregate in a very uptight mid-century England and the high-speed antics that took place on the adjacent roads
- [From Nefarious To New Beginnings](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/11/13/from-nefarious-to-new-beginnings/) - We’ve written extensively about the re-birth of the Norton Motorcycles Company, featuring their Donnington Park production facility on the cover of Cafe Racer’s 7th issue. After test riding their 961 Commandos several times and finding the air-cooled retros to be quick, well-styled machines, we figured all was well with the re-born British brand. However, just
- [From Our Pages To Your Walls](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/11/02/from-our-pages-to-your-walls/) - Back when I was a yoof, my bedroom walls were plastered with images from my favorite motorcycle magazines. Anytime I encountered a particularly sharp image of a new bike or one of those cheesy Dave Mann centerfolds popular in the pages of "Easyriders" magazine, out came the box of thumb tacks and onto the
- [The Original GOAT Tribute Bike](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/10/24/the-original-goat-tribute-bike/) - With the current Moto GP season quickly (and some would say very, very quickly) drawing to a conclusion, many pundits are lamenting the pending retirement of Italy's Valentino Rossi. The onetime wunderkind of professional motorcycle racing is now in his 40s, and the insatiable drive that led Rossi to an amazing nine world championships
- [The Rides of the Year Are Upon Us](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/10/15/the-rides-of-the-year-are-upon-us/) - Summer is motorcycling's best season what with copious rallies, events, races and seemingly endless warm, sunny days to enjoy the sport. However, I'll let you in on a secret: fall is even better. Living in and around Pittsburgh for most of my life, I've come to appreciate the change of seasons and the difference that
- [Missing Links](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/10/07/missing-links/) - History has a strange way of disproving the latest trends. Take print magazine, for example. In this smartphone-obsessed nation, magazines are rapidly becoming relics of a less hectic past and are vanishing faster than brains free of Internet influence. Ah, but the same used to be believed about vinyl records which have, some 30
- [A Low-Buck Cure For The Uglies](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/09/29/a-low-buck-cure-for-the-uglies/) - In my humble opinion, Ducati's original Multistrada was one of the homleyest motorcycles ever produced. It's certainly the least lovely machine ever to roll on the road wearing the vaunted Bologna firm's livery, having broken all tradition of Italian motorcycles before it. Sure, the all-purpose 'Strada more than achieved its goal- that is, to
- [The Arms Race Continues](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/09/20/the-arms-race-continues/) - Just when you thought motorcycles couldn't get much faster, technologically complex and downright lust-inducing, Triumph breaks into the streetbike party with one hell of a guest. I'm speaking of their latest incarnation of their stripped-down three-cylinder Speed Triple, a motorcycle that pretty much invented the factory cafe racer game back in 1994. Many performance upgrades
- [Going The Distance](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/09/10/going-the-distance/) - We received a call that it was Cafe Racer magazine's chance to test ride the all-new 2021 Ducati Monster last week. Naturally, having heard so much about the completely revamped Italian naked sportster, we jumped at the chance. However, these was one significant catch: the motorcycle was located at a dealership some 300 miles
- [A Brilliant Engineer's Insights](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/08/28/a-brilliant-engineers-insights/) - Meeting gifted movers and shakers in the motorcycle industry is a large part of what keeps our wheels turning here at Cafe Racer magazine. We've interviewed some awe-inspiring talents during the past 14 years, delving into their skills, motivations and unique insights into the sport that we all dig so much. In our latest August/September
- [Another Amazing Event](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/08/20/another-amazing-event/) - Our team is still in the afterglow of last Sunday's 13th Annual Reader's Ride-In Show, an event that surpassed everyone's expectations. You, our faithful readers turned up in force even with a new virus outbreak threatening to cancel events from coast to coast. The weekend started with the threat of even more rain, but
- [Righteous Racebikes](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/08/13/righteous-racebikes/) - We had the pleasure of attending a meet and greet this week with the team of female roadracers currently campaigning Royal Enfield's Continental GT 650s in the Motoamerica championships. The ladies were selected through RE's ongoing Build, Train, race program where ordinary motorcycle enthusiasts are chosen to design, engineer and then race the torquey
- [Renaissance Man](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/08/02/renaissance-man/) - Our August/September issue is out this week and we're proud to serve our readers the latest in a series of in-depth profiles of motorcycle riders who make cafe racing the fascinating, global phenom that it is. In the latest issue, our ace writer Anthony Conroy catches up with San Fransisco's Paul d'Orleans, a globetrotting
- [Under The Influence](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/07/20/under-the-influence/) - Professional motorcycle test rider Jeremy Haynes...his job may soon be in jeopardy Time was when new streetbike model launches were fairly straightforward affairs. Motorcycle manufacturers would issue invitations to journalists specializing in testing and analyzing motorcycles and we’d do our level best to wring the living snot of of said machines until we learned
- [A Bonneville Worth Building](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/07/13/a-bonneville-worth-building/) - Blake on our original Project Bonneville, circa 2010 We've long been of two minds concerning the first-generation Hinckley Triumph Bonnevilles. The air and oil-cooled parallel twins were introduced in 2001 at a time when the retro cafe racer craze wasn't exactly tops for most motorcycle manufacturers. The 865cc machines weren't exactly designed to set any
- [Memories of Ride-In Shows Past](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/06/28/memories-of-ride-in-shows-past/) - We maintain a healthy archive of images from all 12 of our previous Reader's Ride-In Bike Shows and deep within we find some stirring examples of unique machines that you, our faithful readers have built for the show. It still amazes us that mechanics and fabricators will specifically target the August event with their projects,
- [Something Fishy Here...](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/06/19/something-fishy-here/) - One of my favorite parts of traveling by motorcycle is the strange cultural sites that appear by the roadside. Over the past 40-odd years of riding two-wheelers, I've come across some sights that make for excellent post-ride bull sessions with some of the sights in question provoking fond memories and belly laughs many years
- [Collecting Or Hoarding?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/06/11/collecting-or-hoarding/) - In an upcoming issue, we'll be profiling several motorcycle enthusiasts who share a common malady: they can't bring themselves to sell any of their motorbikes. It seems that everywhere we travel, we're told of people who have amassed enormous, multi-bike collections and the stories behind these assemblages of high-performance metal are as fascinating as the
- [Paint Your Wagon](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/05/28/paint-your-wagon/) - One of the most exciting parts of planning any custom project bike involves selecting a paint job. Alongside the giddy (and often wallet-flattening) process of choosing which components are to comprise your dream ride, the art of selecting, well, art for a motorcycle seems to be everyone's favorite. And why not- in most instances,
- [Bad Editor, Great Writer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/05/14/bad-editor-great-writer/) - A good two decades past, my wife worked in a high-end motorcycle dealership. The shop, located in a suburb of Pittsburgh, was also home to the U.S. Bimota importer and just visiting her at work exposed me to all sorts of exotic European motorcycles I'd never heard of before. These sleek, high-tech roardacers attracted
- [What Becomes A Legend Most](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/05/05/what-becomes-a-legend-most/) - Legends are strange phenomena. Human beings are endlessly fascinated by objects for the oddest of reasons and one motorcycle- or brand of motorcycle- that's genuinely captured the imaginations (and dollars) of many wears the vaunted Vincent label. I've long lusted after a big-bore Vincent twin just like many riders and fans of classic British
- [Classic Racing In Kansas](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/04/25/classic-racing-in-kansas/) - One of the happiest means of measuring our nearing the end of the ongoing Coronavirus shut-down is the recent deluge of announcements about upcoming motorcycle events. Many of the weekend meets, races and custom shows that were cancelled in 2020 are gloriously springing back to life for this coming summer, including AHRMA's Classic Moto
- [Uncertain Future of Harley-Davidson's Bronx](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/04/16/uncertain-future-of-harley-davidsons-bronx/) - The crew here at CRM were understandably excited when news surfaced in 2019 of an all-new machine from Harley-Davidson. The promised streetbike was a real corker- at least on paper. Fashioned after the emergent streetfighter/supernaked bikes that have now mostly replaced sportbikes in the market, the water-cooled performance bike looked as a futuristic and
- [Meteoric Ride](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/04/05/meteoric-ride/) - In Cafe Racer's new, April/May issue, our esteemed Managing editor Kim Love takes the first ride aboard the freshly-released Royal Enfield Meteor 350. The new single has been long rumored to be the worthy successor to the Indian forms million-selling Bullet 500 and we were quite honored to be among the first North
- [A World Of Riders](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/03/24/a-world-of-riders/) - Coming up in the April/May issue of Cafe Racer, we're proud to present an eye-opening preview of one of the best motorcycle photography books ever published. International photo-journalist Henry von Wartenburg spent years traveling the world on two wheels, collecting images of everyday motorcycle riders at work and at play. The disparate imagery he
- [They're Still Out There](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/03/15/theyre-still-out-there/) - Uncovering a pristine, long-hidden classic motorcycle from someone's barn or garage is a dream shared by many motorcyclists. For several years, I've alternately fascinated and bored stiff listeners subjected to my tale of a guy bringing not one, but two basket-case Nortons to our show booth at the 2014 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days event.
- [A World of Difference](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/03/04/a-world-of-difference/) - Whether you're a regular visitor to Instagram or not, the photo-sharing app has proven endlessly useful in helping us see new custom bikes. case in point, Instagram's software is designed to nudge viewers towards postings containing content that someone out there in cyberspace assumes a user will pretty much dig. For my feed, that
- [New Forks In Norton's Road](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/02/19/new-forks-in-nortons-road/) - Regular readers of Cafe Racer know we've a serious soft spot for classic Norton motorcycles. We've built a trio of the vaunted British parallel twin in the pages over the years, learning a tremendous amount along the way. Last season, we managed to pile a good 1,000 miles on our 1973 Commando 750, and after
- [Piece By Piece](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/02/08/piece-by-piece/) - The wild, unpredictable world of motorcycles never ceases to surprise. It was back in Cafe racer's February/March, 2016 issue that we published a feature story titled "Vanishing Vincents" about the trend these classic British speedbikes were than undertaking. Most of the vaunted Black Shadow and Rapide V-twins were being bought up at auctions by wealthy
- [Golden Goose Guzzis](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/01/26/golden-goose-guzzis/) - The photo above depicts one of the prouder, early moments of this, ahem, esteemed publication. Shot n spring, 2011, the customized Moto Guzzi V7 was only the second bike we'd revamped in our then tiny, home garage. Many more would follow as motorbike manufacturers who advertised with us grew increasingly comfortable handing our team new
- [A Monster of a Milestone](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/01/15/a-monster-of-a-milestone/) - I can still remember the first time I set eyes on a Ducati Monster. It was 1995 and I had just abandoned 13 years of Harley riding, having had my eyes permanently opened after borrowing a friend's Suzuki Katana. After realizing that modern motorcycles could indeed be fun even with functioning brakes, reliability, speed and
- [On Track Enfields](https://www.caferacermag.com/2021/01/06/on-track-enfields/) - Winter can be tedious what with the seemingly endless grey skies and same-old-same-old routines. However, this time of year is perfect for catching up on the progress of custom bike builders who are taking advantage of the downtime. Regular CRM readers will know that contributing writer Blair Powell has been fiddling with the Royal Enfield
- [A Multitude of Motor Choices](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/12/23/a-multitude-of-motor-choices/) - We recently wrote of the exemplary work being done at Framecrafters in Union, Illinois. The veteran chassis building team of Randy and Karsten Ilg have more than perfected their regimen of creating one of a kind motorcycle frames to fit everything from highly polished showbikes to championship-winning roadracers. We were very much flattered when the
- [The Shows Must Go On](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/12/10/the-shows-must-go-on/) - For several years, cafe racer magazine has been a partner with the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows. The annual traveling two-wheeled circus is a highlight of our staffs year as we enjoy packing up shop and hitting the road. The IMS events provide a time to catch up with you, our readers and see what's new
- [A Match Made in Passion](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/12/04/a-match-made-in-passion/) - We're always proud of the extensive research doe by Cafe Racer's contributors in finding the most inspiring and unexpected custom speedbikes around. In our December/January issue that goes on sale tomorrow, Chief Photographer Simon Everett has outdone even his usual diligence by bringing us a unique machine nobody could have imagined. This time, Simon managed
- [All New Triumph Trident](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/11/23/all-new-triumph-trident/) - Late fall is always an exciting time of year for us, despite the arriving weather bringing to end a glorious riding season. This is the time of year when the world's motorbike manufacturers begin unleashing their new machines for the coming year and 2021 looks like there's be a bumper-crop f scintillating rides on offer.
- [1970s Roadracing Revealed](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/11/10/1970s-roadracing-revealed/) - Those of you who haven't yet picked up a copy of our current October/November issue are missing out on a real peach of a Legacy feature story. The piece follows the long, challenging trajectory of a local amateur roadracing team known oddly enough as Team Heschimura Racing. These guys and gals were tearing up racetracks
- [New Twist on an Old Favorite](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/10/29/new-twist-on-an-old-favorite/) - Loads of work going on in the CRM garage these days as the first cool breezes of fall are making themselves known. We're all ready to wrench, and the new three winter issues will reveal some serious modifications of our fleet of test bikes and long-termers. We were recently in touch with the talented team
- [Fierce Females Wanted For Royal Enfield Racing](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/10/20/fierce-females-wanted-for-royal-enfield-racing/) - Royal Roadracers Following the success of their flatrack training and racing program, Royal Enfield North America has launched phase two of their Build, Train, Race program for 2021. This time, a select few, very lucky female riders will be chosen to race tricked-out, slick-shod Continental GT 650 motorcycles on roadrace circuits. To apply, would-be participants
- [One Big, Bad Beemer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/10/13/one-big-bad-beemer/) - Ther's been much antocipation surrounding BMW's entry into the very popular factory bobber market. Triumph's speedy Bonneville Bobber has been a brisk seller worldwide and we first announced the German manufacturer would be following suit with a neo-bobber of their own back last summer. The good folks at BMW North America were kind enough to
- [Two Cylinder Time Capsule](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/09/29/two-cylinder-time-capsule/) - Some truly strange things have been re-discovered under dusty drop-cloths in the back storage rooms of motorcycle dealerships. A guy we know, Chris Gatto owns the positively incredible Cycle Warehouse retail shop in nearby Butler, PA. an overstock hoarder's paradise that's filled with stock found rotting away in just such places. The motorcycle pictured above
- [End of The (Cycle) World](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/09/16/end-of-the-cycle-world/) - As a print magazine publisher, you nevedr want to see our diminishing field shrink any further than it already has. However, it is with very mixed feelings I report the announcement that long-running periodical "Cycle World" magazine has ceased publishing come October. For those who once cherished this venerable Motor Trend of two-wheeled monthlies, this
- [Help For Your Addictions](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/09/11/help-for-your-addictions/) - Longtime CRM contributor Blair Powell shared this week's post with us and in the middle of a double deadline with not one but two issues of Cafe Racer magazine to get ready for the newsstand, it provided a much-needed laugh. It appears that Mr. Powell suffers from the same malady as do many of our
- [Deus Retrospective](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/09/01/deus-retrospective/) - In an age when garages that have produced one or two custom cafe racers court fame and celebrity like reality show contestants, it's refreshing to meet a builder content to let his work speaks for him. Such a guy is the humble and extraordinarily talented Mike "Woolie" Woolaway, featured in this issue's cover story. Mike
- [Three Times The Fun](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/08/20/three-times-the-fun/) - We've received a good deal of feedback on one of the bikes featured in the current July/August issue, a customized Yamaha XS750 triple. The Yamaha is an odd choice for cafe builders as the model is frequently overshadowed by its smaller brother, the twin-cylinder XS650. There's no great mystery as to why the 650 reins
- [Idle Hands Time](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/08/12/idle-hands-time/) - We'd recently posted on Instagram a newly-launched effort to see just what sort of bikes were being dreamed up and constructed by riders spending more time at home during the current Coronavirus pandemic. With many people cancelling vacations this summer and even more working from home or laid off, the aftermarket parts industry is booming
- [Kawasaki W800](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/08/11/kawasaki-w800/) - We’d been collectively itching to get our mitts on Kawasaki’s new W800 since spotting one on the Team Green display stand at last January’s International Motorcycle Show. Fans of retro cafe racers have long lamented to loss of Kawasaki’s original W650 from the lineup, but after some 17 years the very British-feeling air-cooled parallel twin
- [Husqvarna Vitpilen](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/08/11/husqvarna-vitpilen/) - Story by Mike Seate Photos by Paul Rudolf Having sat on an idle Vitpilen at a recent International Motorcycle Show, I was struck by how low the handlebars were and how compact the overall design was of this Swedish-made factory cafe racer. Hoping to blag a test ride aboard one of the sporty 700cc singles,
- [Fourteen Cafe Racer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/08/11/fourteen-cafe-racer/) - Fourteen Cafe Racer Story by Linda Wilsmore Photos by Simon Everett The engine is an Ariel Square Four, 997cc in standard tune, one of the last manufactured in 1958. The frame, a Norton Slimline, is from a 1960 Norton Dominator. Various parts were picked up from autojumbles and eBay, but the majority of custom parts
- [Motoblot Moves Along](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/08/05/motoblot-moves-along/) - It's become an unfortunate part of the motorcycle world that rallies and events are constantly being cancelled, postponed or modified. The most recent gathering to find itself altering course due the Coronavirus outbreak is one of our favorites; Chicago's annual Motoblot festival, slated for September 25-27, has recently announced a major change of plans. Instead
- [Picture This](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/07/28/picture-this/) - Since the earliest days of forming the nucleus of Cafe Racer magazine, generous people have been donating their rare, historical images to us. Once, back in 2009, we posted a simple flyer on the community cork board at London's Ace Cafe asking to see photos from the original ton-up era. The response was so overwhelming
- [Breaking News Bike Show Cancelled](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/07/17/breaking-news-bike-show-cancelled/) - Just days after receiving a green light from our local government, we received a call today informing us that this year's Reader's Ride-In Custom Show has been cancelled. We'd struggled to keep the annual event on pace but with the landscape of ever-shifting restrictions on crowd size and virus safety measures, it proved inevitable that
- [Fingers Crossed For Custom Show](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/07/15/fingers-crossed-for-custom-show/) - There's just over a month until Cafe racer's 13th Annual Reader's Ride-In Custom Show takes place and we'd like to clear up a few issues. We've been deluged with messages from folks planning to attend this year's show who are concerned that the shifting landscape of Coronavirus-related restrictions may affect the event. Those concerns are
- [Auction Action Resumes](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/07/08/auction-action-resumes/) - These past few months of relative social lockdown have left many of us biking types eager to get out there and socialize with other riders. Unfortunately, most every motorcycle gathering previously scheduled for this summer has been cancelled, leaving us to ride without the usual cameraderie and group fellowship important to many in the sport.
- [Lining Up Our Ducs](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/06/28/lining-up-our-ducs/) - We've long been fans of Italian motorbikes here at CRM, having transformed a 999 track bike of ours into a funky, post-modern streetfighter a couple of years back. That particular build, that centered on maintaining the 999s focus on blistering speed while making the Italian screamer more everyday rideable really struck a chord with readers,
- [Game Changers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/06/18/game-changers/) - The CRM team is back in sun-drenched So Cal this week, testing an array of new 2020 streetbikes for upcoming issues of the magazine. The market seems to me finally shrugging off it's sluggishness as thousands of people who are tired of living inside their homes are discovering and re-discovering the thrills of two-wheeled travel.
- [Taking A Shine To It](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/06/11/taking-a-shine-to-it/) - A sudden rainstorm in recent days left our 1973 Norton Commando looking, as our British friends tend to say, a little second-hand. It's a source of endless amusement here at the CRM HQ that England, a country with perpetually rainy weather, can also be credited with popularizing cafe racers sporting shiny, polished alloy bodywork. Back
- [Twelve Years of Shifting Gears](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/06/02/twelve-years-of-shifting-gears/) - Blake Kelly's inspired Honda CB450 build in Cafe Racer's J Cafe Racer's latest, June/July issue hits the newsstands this week and we've cooked up a real treat of a feature for custom motorcycle fans. We're generally so busy spinning wrenches in the CRM garage that we seldom have time for reflection, but just recently, contributor
- [A Truly Grand Prize](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/05/27/a-truly-grand-prize/) - Classy BD's Cycles paint adorns this timeless Honda four. Your bike could be next. With so many of this year's motorcycle events cancelled or postponed, it's a bright spot for ton-up aficionados to know our 13th Annual Reader's Ride-In Custom Show is still a go for Sunday, August 16. This year's gathering at Sewickley's War
- [Adventure Hogs](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/05/22/adventure-hogs/) - We're just putting the finishing touches on Cafe Racer magazine's June/July issue which includes some fun, informative stories about our favorite brand of custom motorcycles. Our esteemed columnist Robert Pandya's Inside Line story for this issue focuses on something most of us never knew existed. Robert, who has worked deep inside the motorcycle industry for
- [Better Than The Real Thing?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/05/15/better-than-the-real-thing/) - The current issue's cover story has generated quite a bit of feedback from readers who were thrilled to see the intense level of craftsmanship and detail that goes into creating a show-winning Vincent V-twin replica. The two bikes featured were both built in the Iowa garage of Greg Hageman, a custom motorcycle wizard who has
- [Open For Business](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/04/07/open-for-business/) - Our August Custom Bike Show Should Proceed As Usual In recent days we've received several emails and calls from concerned readers who are worried that CRM may be closed temporarily due to the worldwide Coronavirus outbreak. Well, dear readers, we're here to inform you that Cafe Racer is not only cranking along with our usual
- [Run 'Em Hard and Often](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/04/20/run-em-hard-and-often/) - With spring nearly ready to make its permanent appearance in these parts, there's been a flurry of wrenching at the CRM garage to get the bikes ready for a season's riding. It's been incredibly helpful to have various team members stop by the garage during the public lockdown (that hopefully will end soon) to lend
- [The Rare Bright Spot](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/04/30/the-rare-bright-spot/) - The pandemic that has shut down not only most of the U.S. but much of the world has had few bright sports for anyone to celebrate. We're hopefully emerging from the shutdown that's crushed the economy and casued millions of folks to lose their jobs, but CRM buddy and Los Angeles native Alonzo Bodden recently
- [Big, Bold BMW Bobber](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/05/04/big-bold-bmw-bobber/) - We've been salivating over spy photos of BMW's long-awaited R18 bobber for some time. After throwing a leg over Triumph's Bonneville Bobber a couple years back, we're newly converted to the Church of the Power Cruiser, a faith previously thought of as anathema to the very idea of cafe racing. However, the new generation of
- [Hail To The Chief](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/03/30/hail-to-the-chief/) - One of my favorite aspects of the modern cafe custom movement is its limitless adaptability. Though some old schoolers would strongly disagree, the world has embraced customizing bikes for style and speed on very open terms. So instead of designing and building the speedbike of one's dreams based one a pre-conceived notion of what's considered
- [Eureka Springs - A Perfect Riding Destination](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/03/09/eureka-springs-a-perfect-riding-destination/) - Sponsored Content From Best western Inn of The Ozarks The expression, “There’s nowhere quite like it,” is one of those overused phrases people say a lot. However, when folks are talking about historic downtown Eureka Springs, Arkansas, you can take them at their word. They are, in fact, being quite literal. Picture an eclectic combination
- [A Lifetime on Two Wheels](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/03/04/a-lifetime-on-two-wheels/) - CRM contributor and longtime buddy Blair Powell recently shared this awesome pic of himself and his late Dad. At the time, sometime during the mid-1970s, the pre-teen Blair was eager to join his father and uncle on their weekend off-road rides, though not being adept on two-wheels, he couldn't join them. A. Blair Powell, Sr.
- [Antique Bikes At War](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/02/25/antique-bikes-at-war/) - Next issue, due in early April, will feature a Scrapbook photo essay we found quite by accident. Being a history buff with parents who were both involved in WWII, I've long been fascinated by the 20th Century's bloodiest global conflict. I'd read about a massive re-enactment in a local newspaper last summer, detailing a D-D
- [Norton's A No Go](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/02/17/nortons-a-no-go/) - Since as early as issue #7, Cafe Racer Magazine has been an ardent supporter of the newly reborn Norton Motorcycles. Being huge fans of the original Bracebridge Street firm, we were chuffed to learn in 2009 that the British manufacturer, headed by venture capitalist Stuart Garner, was back in business. Their plan was a modest
- [Wheelie Fun Machine](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/02/07/wheelie-fun-machine/) - The newest issue of CRM, our February/March editon, features a cover story on one of the powersports industry's leading visionaries- Southern Californbia's Roland Sands. The former AMA roadracing champ has been busy for the past couple of decades churning out a showroom full of groundbreaking parts and accessories and there's even a top-tier motorcycle riding
- [D.C. Bound](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/01/08/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 up some cool swag we have on offer.
- [Tech Talk](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/01/15/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 to select the proper donor bike to build a cafe racer and to
- [Modern Cafe Convenience](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/01/23/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 parts. The parts and accessories included are pretty much summed up by
- [Cover Job](https://www.caferacermag.com/2020/01/30/cover-job/) - Only a few days left until Cafe Racer's February/March issue drops and we wanted to turn our readers on to a sneak preview of an upcoming feature story we're quite proud of. In our ongoing quest to serve-up detailed technical information, we conducted an in-depth interview with Bryan Dwight owner and spray-gun wizard of South
- [Unlikely Hero](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/12/27/unlikely-hero-2/) - 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 motorcycles, both of which are exemplified by the
- [Research and New Developments](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/12/17/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 gears, starter and other bits to allow push-button
- [Our Kinda Brough](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/12/02/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 first quarter of the last century. Their large-capacity V-Twins were the first motorcycles capable of
- [Ton-Up Testimony](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/11/21/ton-up-testimony/) - Heard from a fellow cafe racer enthusiast recently who shot this most excellent video at an Ace Cafe Reunion a couple of years back. The annual ACR, held in September is one of our favorite events, drawing in thousands of the black leather and low bars faithful from across Europe and around the globe. The
- [London To LA Pipeline](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/11/15/london-to-la-pipeline/) - We've just returned from a trip to London where there's always much to absorb on the custom motorcycle front. We visited The Bike Shed, the UK capitol's hottest motorbike hangout and came away impressed. The Shed has been staging huge, indoor bike shows since 2011 and the space they opened in the Shoreditch neighborhood four
- [Global Custom](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/10/12/global-custom/) - We happen to really dig sidecar rigs here at CRM and our latest October/November issue features two of the mile-munching three wheelers. We've been receiving a bit of feedback about the incredible build job and even more fascinating history behind the machine pictured above. This looks like a post WWII BMW R7 equipped with a
- [Royal Custom Job](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/10/21/royal-custom-job/) - We've been feverishly butting our heads at the GRM garage as o late in discussions over what the do when customizing the Continental Gt twin we picked up recently. In recent weeks, contributor Blair Powell has been riding the 650 to get a feel for the bike and he's reluctant to surrender the bike in
- [Ace Test Rider](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/10/31/ace-test-rider/) - Lining up talented test riders is a challenge for all motorsports publications. The riders need to be not only highly skilled and adaptable to all sorts of machines, they also need the verbal acuity to express what they've just experienced from the seat of an unknown motorcycle into readable, entertaining print. Cafe Racer has been
- [Beware The Elements](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/11/06/beware-the-elements/) - The first spell of cold weather is fast approaching Western Pennsylvania and as surely as whitetail deer will hop across the path of a motorcycle this time of year, your streetbike needs some special attention. We've written countless times in the pages of Cafe Racer about the importance of setting up your bike for winter
- [Photo Coincidence](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/10/02/photo-coincidence/) - After more than 20 years writing about motorbikes, it's amazing the oddball imagery that piles up in one's files. Just recently, while sorting through stacks of Cafe Racer back issues, I came across the above color image by ace shooter Yve Assad. She captured this rider from Southern California's B.A. Moto custom shop as he
- [Test Ride Season](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/09/18/test-ride-season/) - As fall quickly approaches here on the Eastern parts of the country, our sights this time of year turn Westward. That's where the major motorcycle manufacturers store all manner of new demonstration models, bikes set aside from the showroom floors for the sole purpose of entertaining us motojourno types. There's a bumper crop of incredible
- [Classics Are Nice, But So Is Getting There](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/09/05/classics-are-nice-but-so-is-getting-there/) - When you run a magazine based on classic and custom streetbikes, we tend to ask a lot of our staffers. Though showing up to ride and wrench on motorbikes may seem, on the surface, like a dream gig, there are many long, unpaid days spent sorting out complex mechanical conundrums. These garage sessions can be
- [Electrical Wizardry](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/08/27/electrical-wizardry/) - Blake Kelly in Action Regular CRM readers will have missed seeing the name Blake Kelly in our masthead as of late. Blake, the magazine's star test rider, fix-it expert and all-around wit has been busy at graduate school, seeking an advanced degree n the sort of high tech field where a man of his astute
- [And The Good Times Rolled](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/08/21/and-the-good-times-rolled/) - It's been a very busy month, but it's due time we acknowledged you, our readers for making the 12th Annual Reader's Ride-In Custom Show a success. With clear skies, warm temperatures and open roads, folks started spilling into Sewickley as early as Saturday afternoon for Sunday's show. We all enjoyed a laugh at Saturday evening's
- [Reader's Ride-In Show Ready To Roll](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/08/05/readers-ride-in-show-ready-to-roll/) - New Attractions At 2019 Bike Show Come Sunday, August 11, the rolling hills of Sewickley will fill with the sounds of classic and custom motorcycles as our 12th Annual Cafe Racer Reader's Ride-In Show gets underway. Team CRM has been working overtime to make this yearly celebration of all things fast, loud and shiny a
- [Which Ducati Cafe Racer Is Best?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/06/28/which-ducati-cafe-racer-is-best/) - Since the relese of our current June/July issue, we've received several e-mails about the cover story. This issue's top feature chronicles the building of a sharp-as-hell Ducati Scrambler Cafe Racer designed by Motorcycle Missions from Austin Texas. The MM team consists of several military veterans who get together each week to work on custom bikes
- [A Lifetime Custom Job](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/07/10/a-lifetime-custom-job/) - In our current issue, we're pleased to bring you proof that you needn't buy a new bike every few years. Don't get me wrong- I've developed a habit of wanting to try out every cool new retro roadster that comes down the pike and, as a result, I sometimes realize I've sold off a motorcycle
- [New Antique Bike Class Added To Show](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/07/16/new-antique-bike-class-added-to-show/) - With our 12th Annual Reader's ride-In Show less than a month away, we've received enough requests for a special trophied class specifically for your restored antique and vintage machines. In previous years, we've been lumping those perfectly rehabbed older machine sin with our six existing cafe racer classes for judging, but after hearing from you,
- [Prize Patrol Is Here!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/07/29/prize-patrol-is-here/) - While we can't offer the level of prizes regularly doled out by those glitzy TV sweepstakes, our sponsors for this year's Reader's Ride-In Custom Show have really stepped up the game, donating some incredible prizes for the show class winners. Park up your classic or custom two-wheeler at Warm Memorial Park come Sunday, August 11
- [Royal Enfield Demo Rides Added To August 11 Bike Show](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/06/19/royal-enfield-demo-rides-added-to-august-11-bike-show/) - Regular readers of CRM will know how much we dig the new Royal Enfield 650 twins, having spent several weeks running the very capable and smart-looking retros. Well, come Sunday, August 11, you'll have a rare chance to see just how good these new bikes are as Royal Enfield North America has just announced that
- [Why Not Ride To Work Every Day?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/06/12/why-not-ride-to-work-every-day/) - Next Monday, June 17 is Ride To Work day an annual promotion urging motorcycle awareness through, well, actually commuting on our streetbikes. While this ia an honorable and well-intentioned idea, as someone who does not own a car, I often wonder why we Americans need a promotional campaign to roll our two-wheelers out of the
- [Poster Child Moto Guzzi](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/06/06/poster-child-moto-guzzi/) - We're quite proud of our talented crew of International contributors, folks who are constantly on the search for unique, custom-made speedbkes wherever they are. Among the rarest machines we've featured over the years are customized Moto Guzzi cafe racers. The thudding, sweet-handling Italian V-twins are among our favorites, but tracking them down is tough going.
- [Showtime!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/04/15/showtime-2/) - Spring is finally here, but we're busy planning Cafe Racer's biggest event of the summer- our 12th Annual Reader's Ride-In Custom Show. Get those handbuilt speedbikes ready as the event happens at Sewickley's War memorial park on Sunday, August 11. The response to the show both from you, our stalwart readers and the motorcycle industry
- [Vintage Honda Racing](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/04/24/vintage-honda-racing/) - It's easy to forget in today's highly specialized streetbike market that way back in the early 1970s, race bikes were built from ordinary motorcycles. There were few, if any, purpose-built factory racers along the lines of today's superbikes so if the roadracing bug bit, would-be competitors had to modify their everyday rides for the track.
- [Super Sunday](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/04/30/super-sunday/) - 2019 Reader's ride-In Custom Bike Show Is A Go! If you've got a customized speedbike and want to show the world what you ride, this year's show is the place for you! Cafe Racer's annual Reader's ride-In is the ONLY custom cafe racer show of its kind, attracting growing crowds each year for a day
- [The New Breed](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/05/09/the-new-breed/) - Feedback from you, our readers plays a very large part in deciding what sort of custom motorcycles to feature in the pages of Cafe Racer. This is invaluable information to have as with a readership that covers a vast demographic spectrum - our youngest subscriber is aged 14, the oldest 83 - there are many
- [Cafe Racer Art](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/05/20/cafe-racer-art/) - Though none of us are dedicated followers of social media, occasionally, images emerge through the cyber stew that are truly inspired. Our next issue features a retrospective on the ton-up artistry of the Japanese illustrator Kamau 666. Little is known about this Instagram regular who routinely posts vividly colorful illustrations of people and machines from
- [Something Fishy At The Custom Show](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/05/30/something-fishy-at-the-custom-show/) - Each year, our staff endures one of the most fun meetings in all of publishing. We gather to sample the wares of local food trucks in hopes of determining what vendors to invite to our Reader's Ride-In Bike Show. I know it's a thankless task, but one that team CRM are all too ready to
- [Eric Bostrom's Got Your Back](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/03/09/eric-bostroms-got-your-back/) - I was fortunate enough to work alongside pro roadracer Eric Bostrom during the taping of Velocity's "Cafe Racer" TV series and a more intelligent, thoughtful rider I've never met. Bostrom raced for 25 incredible years at the highest echelons of AMA Superbike series and amassed championship status as an AMA Supersport rider, as well as
- [Doing Splits](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/03/21/doing-splits/) - We're in the habit of picking up old Britbike engines around here, be it for better or for financial ruination. Delving into the old air-cooled parallel twin motors is always a fascinating learning process as the pool of active restorers dwindles with each passing year, leaving us to either lean the craft now, or forever
- [Downtown Eureka Springs is truly One-of-a-Kind](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/04/01/downtown-eureka-springs-is-truly-one-of-a-kind/) - Sponsored Content From Best western Inn of The Ozarks The expression, “There’s nowhere quite like it,” is one of those overused phrases people say a lot. However, when folks are talking about historic downtown Eureka Springs, you can take them at their word. They are, in fact, being quite literal. Picture an eclectic combination of
- [Ghost Bikes of the Recent Past](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/03/04/ghost-bikes-of-the-recent-past/) - For our upcoming special Style Issue due out April 1, we've been delving deep into our files of classic and contemporary images to chronicle both the form and function of custom cafe racers. We came across one of our very favorite bikes of recent years, one that we were lucky enough to see race in
- [Styles for Miles](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/02/20/styles-for-miles/) - Te're currently working hard to bring you our first-ever special issue of Cafe Racer dedicated to style. Whether it be the unmistakably cool look of ton-up riding gear or the svelte, purposeful lines of a classic cafe bike, Brawny, Ducati street missile from England's Made In Metal is certainly a contender for Most Stylish Cafe
- [Engaged To Death](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/02/14/engaged-to-death/) - It's not often we hear of classic motorcycle movies we've never seen or even heard of before. I'd written a book about the subject of two-wheelers in film way back in 2000,and I'd assumed "Two Wheels on Two Reels" was fairly comprehensive in its coverage. Ah, but there's always more to learn and I found
- [Valentines Hearts and Women's Health](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/02/05/valentines-hearts-and-womens-health/) - During the month of February, one's mind turns to, well, for me, thoughts of anticipating the incredible rides promised by a fast-approaching spring. And, of course, Valentines Day. This year, us riders of all genders can do something really cool for the community of female motorcyclists - without whom we'd have no one to hand
- [International Motorcycle Show Notes](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/01/29/international-motorcycle-show-notes/) - As this silly photo illustrates, the CRM crew has just returned from the annual Progressive International Motorcycle Show in Cleveland and what an interesting time was had. First of all, we've been remiss in not getting away from our duties at the garage and office as of late. Between building bikes, working on tech features
- [Cleveland Bound](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/01/16/cleveland-bound/) - Cleveland Bound With winter coming at us full bore, heading to next weekend's Progressive International Motorcycle Show at Cleveland's IX Center is a must. Stop by Cafe Racer magazine's booth and check out a couple of the recent custom bike builds that have been featured in the mag, and sign up for a subscription and
- [Another Magazine Bites The Dust](https://www.caferacermag.com/2019/01/10/another-magazine-bites-the-dust/) - The death of print media may have been vastly overstated, but today, multinational media conglomerate Bonnier Corporation announced the closing of popular V-Twin magazine Hot Bike. I remember reading issues of this glossy chopper and custom magazine back in high school during the 1980s, where it provided custom motorcycle fans with a welcome and more
- [Kawasaki's Retro Twin Returns](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/12/31/kawasakis-retro-twin-returns/) - Regular readers of CRM will know of our collective fondness for Kawasaki's W650 parallel twin. Introduced into the North America market back in 1999, the W was a faithful re-interpretation of Kawasaki's original W1 of the late 1960s. The first machine was a mind-blowing Asian interpretation of BSA's unit construction twins of the era, only
- [Classified Ads Launched](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/12/21/classified-ads-launched/) - In a day and age when online advertising threatens to eclipse all others, we've decided to take a very retro turn: starting in the February/March issue of Cafe Racer, readers can place tried and true print classified ads to sell motorcycles, parts, services, or whatever's hanging around your garage that's outlived its use. Why launch
- [Mad, Bad and Very Funky Modern Triton](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/12/17/mad-bad-and-very-funky-modern-triton/) - Though there's plenty to dislike about the Internet, we occasionally come across images that really knock our collective socks off. One such photo has become the permanent desktop computer backdrop as the technical expertise and sheer audacity of this British special is truly deserving of the label. From the numberplate we can tell this is
- [Monkeying Around](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/12/11/monkeying-around/) - Few submitted images for our regular "Curbside Customs" section have produced as many goofy smiles as the set of photos recently sent in by reader Chris Tope. The West Virginian has previously laid wrench to a 1967 Honda CB450- the fabled Black Bomber edition- and decided to retro fit a 1977 50cc Honda Z50. The
- [1990s Cafe Cool](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/12/05/1990s-cafe-cool/) - A good 20 years ago when I penned stories for the now-defunct custom harley magazine IronWorks, the late editor Dennis Stemp amassed an impressive collection of motorbikes. Mostly British classics, American V-twins and the like, he also had a taste for custom cafe racers. I recovered this advertisement for a long-gone North Carolina aftermarket firm
- [Where Did All The Bling Bikes Go?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/26/where-did-all-the-bling-bikes-go/) - s Ah, it all seems so quaint just 15 years on, but I recently found a batch of photos from the early Aughts of myself test-riding a collection of fat-tire extreme sportbikes. The wild, over-the-top machines were quite the rage in the early years of the 21st Century, back before the global recession of 2008
- [Walt Siegl’s Unusual Path to Cafe Racing](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/25/from-nation-building-to-custom-building-walt-siegls-unusual-path-to-cafe-racing/) - Story by Mike Seate Photos by Yve Assad To say Walt Siegl’s motorcycles encompass a world of influences would be a grand understatement. His career, building some of the most sought-after and distinctive custom cafe racers we’ve yet seen, started in a Russian steel firm, of all places. From his time in Moscow, the soft-spoken
- [Ten Steps To A Better Bonneville](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/25/ten-steps-to-a-better-bonneville/) - Compiled and Photographed By The Staff It seems that everyone’s got a new Triumph Bonneville or Thruxton these days and just as many punters harbor opinions about what makes their particular ride special. Lucky for Bonnie owners and tuners, the 2000 re-launch of Britain’s most famous motorcycle has spawned one of the deepest aftermarket support
- [Polish Powerhouse](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/25/polish-powerhouse/) - Story: Linda Wilsmore Photos: Aga Pawlukowicz Is it normal for a Pole to take a motorcycle specifically to England for its debut? Is it normal that twenty guys and girls set off on a journey from Lubsko, Poland to London, to see a motorcycle that had stood in their neighbour’s garage only the day before?
- [Useful Tips and Tools from the CRM Garage](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/25/useful-tips-and-tools-from-the-crm-garage/) - Vintage Britbike Owners’ Must.Do’s (and Don’ts) We’ve built several classic British specials, all chronicled in these pages over the years, but with the inherently limited print space we’ve got, many of the day-to-day details on maintaining one of these 50-year-old machines have gone missing. In the interest of full disclosure, we’re sharing with our readers
- [Mulholland Moonscape](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/20/mulholland-moonscape/) - Few images we've seen have driven home the devastation of the Woolsey wildfire like this one, sent by a reader from the roadside overlook atop Mulholland Highway. The Rock Store motorcycle hangout is just a mile or so below this scorched mountainside, and has miraculously escaped the fire's wrath. Visit their website www.rock-store.com and check
- [The Ultimate Kit Bike](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/16/the-ultimate-kit-bike/) - The image above illustrates just what can be accomplished with a very functional and comprehensive kit available from England's Cafe Racer Kits. The firm has cornered a market for made-to-order custom parts designed for both Honda's CX500 and Triumph's early 1990s, 900cc triples. Regular readers will know that we've a 1995 Speed Triple in our
- [Rock Store Survives!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/10/goodbye-rock-store/) - Great news surfaced early today when we managed to reach Rock Store owner Rich Savko who confirmed that the beloved So Cal motorcycle meeting place had not, in fact burned down. Savko was surprised to find the restaurant, located on Mulholland Highway in the tiny hamlet of Cornell, California, had just escaped the ferocious Woolsey
- [Time To Get Testy](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/08/time-to-get-testy/) - Ah, fall riding season. A time of brisk mornings, warm afternoon roads and watching every treeline for hormone-crazed deer. This is also the time of year when the world's motorcycle manufacturers let us writers loose on their early-release new bikes, which is akin to Christmas and your birthday all rolled into a single crazy season.
- [Shuffle off to Buffalo](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/11/01/shuffle-off-to-buffalo/) - We received an invite recently from our friends at Buffalo, New York's City Limit Moto, to host an evening of movies and chat. It's been a few good turns of the old spokes since we met with our fellow cafe racer enthusiasts so we're looking quite forward to the occasion. Come Saturday, December 7, I'll
- [China Parts Crisis Ending?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/10/23/china-parts-crisis-ending/) - Say goodbye to this sort of cheap knock-off sportbike bodywork from overseas. To date, I believe myself to be one of the few remaining Americans who choose to receive his daily news in print form. No big fan of electronic media and having worked as a newspaper columnist for 20 years, print newspapers still –
- [Rare Chance To Commission a Hageman Special](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/10/15/rare-chance-to-commission-a-hageman-special/) - The custom motorcycle market is indeed a fickle mistress. Bikes that were under-loved cast-offs a few years back now command wallet-flattening prices while some makes and models that were recently considered the pinnacle of perfection, become also-rans. In the wake of such a topsy-turvy marketplace, the specials builders have to ride each of these unpredictable
- [Chopistick Impressions](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/10/08/chopistick-impressions/) - For a mode of transportation, motorcycling generates a great deal of unique creativity. In our current, October/November issue, Cafe Racer profiles once such two-wheeled visionary, the artist Makoto Endo. The Japanese painter spent much of his career in design and advertising before realizing he'd rather express his love of motorbikes on canvas. That decision has
- [Enfield Twins Are Stunners](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/09/27/enfield-twins-are-stunners/) - Just back from San Jose in foggy Northern California for the four-day global launch of Royal Enfield's new twins. The much-anticipated bikes have been in the pipeline for several years and to say they're an important step in the Indian manufacturer's program is an understatement. We always dug the Continental GT 535
- [Genius of the GS](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/09/19/genius-of-the-gs/) - Come our huge, 100-page October/November issue, we take a look at one of the unsung bargains of the retro custom world, Suzuki's fabulous GS750. released in 1978, the Gs was Suzuki's first big four-stroke machine. The very modern double overhead cam engine is still a peach to unleash as it's smoother, quicker and more tractable
- [Top 10 New Retro Cafe Racers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/09/16/top-10-new-retro-cafe-racers/) - Burgeoning Market Full Of Choice Machines Riders looking for a taste of retro-flavored mo-suspension and specially tuned powerplants, today’s torcycling are indeed living in a boom market. modern retros are anything but second-tier motorcy-After decades of being engineering oddities cles. Available in styles, displacements and powerbands and rare, underdeveloped exercises in affixing to suit everyone
- [Ladies Choice](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/09/16/ladies-choice/) - Meet Arkansas' Multigenerational Custom Clan In an age when many youngsters refuse to abandon their smartphones long enough to embrace motorcycling, Jan Sallings has no such problems. The patriarch of a large Farmington, Arkansas family, he’s helped and encouraged no less than eight relatives to design and build their own custom streetbikes. A lifelong two-wheeled
- [The $400 Treasure](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/09/16/the-400-treasure/) - Originally trained as an aeronautical engineer, Dave Lawes reckons he caught the engineering equivalent of OCD. He admits that sometimes he will make something four times before he is happy with it, so it’s no surprise that his cafe racer, which started out as a 1979 Honda CB75KZ US import, looks so neat. Dave bought
- [CR Tech - Useful Tips and Tools from the CRM Garage](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/09/16/cr-tech-useful-tips-and-tools-from-the-crm-garage/) - Vintage Britbike Owners’ Must.Do’s (and Don’ts) We’ve built several classic British specials, all chronicled in these pages over the years, but with the inherently limited print space we’ve got, many of the day-to-day details on maintaining one of these 50-year-old machines have gone missing. In the interest of full disclosure, we’re sharing with our readers
- [California - America's Café Capitol](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/09/16/california-americas-cafe-capitol/) - A few years back when Ace Café London’s marketing team was considering a Stateside loca.tion, they ended up baffled. “Your country’s so bloody big there’s no one central location to build an Ace U.S.A.,” observed the Ace’s Mark Wilsmore. Though the first American outlet of the fabled petrolhead eatery will be open.ing in Orlando, Florida
- [London Balling](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/09/13/london-balling/) - This year marked the 21st year that I've been visiting London's annual Ace Cafe Reunion. The fabled transport cafe, built in 1938, was the home of a tire depot when the first reunion was held in 1994 and after re-opening in 2001, the crowds that gather for the ride from North London down to the
- [Lost and Now Found](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/08/29/lost-and-now-found/) - Thanks to the assistance of you, our readers, we managed to locate the winner of the 2nd Place Best Japanese Cafe Racer trophy at our August 12 Custom Bike Show. We couldn't have completed our special, 12-page photo essay on the amazing entries at this year's event without you, so a tip o' the pint
- [Bold In Blue](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/06/18/bold-in-blue/) - We've been going through images of previous Reader's ride-In Custom Shows trying to determine whether any of the highly skilled builders who've won past awards will be back this August 11. We came across this amazing piece of classic Honda workmanship that rolled in completely unexpected two years ago. The owner was youthful Andy Frederick
- [Boxing Clever](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/06/22/boxing-clever/) - Our on the West Coast, BMW custom parts specialists and CRM pals at Oshmo (www.oshmo.com) have put together a pretty cool Summer Sale on some choice bits to make your air-cooled R9T twin really roar. These guys have done for both new and late-model BMWs what few have in the past- found a bolt-on means
- [Mechanic's Master Class](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/07/05/mechanics-master-class/) - More than once in recent years folks have asked me why continue to pursue knowledge in the classic motorbike field, especially when motorcycle sales are in the collective toilet in the U.S. and the demographic who remembers when Nortons and Triumphs ruled the roads is quickly becoming a non-riding one. One explanation is practical: if
- [Can You Top This?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/07/12/can-you-top-this/) - With less than one month remaining before the 11th Annual Reader's ride-In Custom Bike Show, we're gearing up to see some of our regular show entries again this year. For several of the past few events, starting back when the event was still being stages as party of Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio, Dave Williams
- [Naked Italians -Va Va Voom!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/07/17/naked-italians-va-va-voom/) - Rocket Garage of Italy whipped up this 999-based beauty. Bellisimo! Streetfighter styled customs have long been one of our faves here at CRM. The audacious, bold idea of resurrecting a crashed sportbike into a unique, fast-moving special is borne of pure mechanical practicality and a can-do approach to customizing that we all admire. Just recently,
- [Our Lame Duck Story](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/07/25/our-lame-duck-story/) - Been busy tearing into the crashed Ducati 999 track bike as of late, discovering some fascinating mechanics behind this 170 MPH road missile. Having read a hardcover book about the creation of this, the bike unfortunate enough to relpace Ducati's iconic and much-beloved 916/9996 series, the 999's futuristic styling was not to everyone's tastes. The
- [Hogs of The Future Have Arrived](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/07/30/hogs-of-the-future-have-arrived/) - With North American streetbike sales lingering in the toilet, manufacturers are growing increasingly clever when it comes to increasing sales and broadening the market. It's taken years for the OEMs to realize that simply cranking out big-bore machines has limited appeal beyond the Baby Boomers who've long desired heavyweight motorcycles. Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson, for example, have
- [Classic Bike Crystal Ball?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/08/07/classic-bike-crystal-ball/) - There was a long discussion recently within the CRM garage about which classic and custom machines will become the top money sellers of the near future. As anyone who has restored a vintage motorcycle can attest, such project are generally undertaken for a love of doing so, not for any prospective profits that may or,
- [Show Stoppers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/08/15/show-stoppers/) - Our 11th Annual Reader's Ride-In Custom Show is in the history books now and despite a weekend-long threat of rain and thunderstorms, the event was a smash. The collection of antique and custom iron on display was far different in its scale and scope than before, proving there's more innovation and mechanical experimentation going on
- [A Little Marquez On The Side](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/08/21/a-little-marquez-on-the-side/) - Though we're being careful not to release any images of the various trophy class winner's from this months Reader's Ride-In Custom Show, we decided to share one of the more memorable- and unexpected - entries. Sidecar rigs may not, in fact, qualify as pure cafe racers, but the popularity of the three-wheelers has proven consistent
- [Missing Winner](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/08/26/missing-winner/) - In the weekend-long hustle, bustle and confusion of staging this year's Reader's Ride-In Custom Bike Show, a few things inevitably go wrong. In this instance, we mistakenly handed off the crucial information allowing us to contact the Second Place winner in the Best Japanese Cafe Racer category. His bike was a stunner of a silver
- [August/September 2018 Issue Out NOW!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2013/09/22/current-issue/)
- [Promising Progress](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/06/13/promising-progress/) - As regular readers will know, CRM shies away from running start-to-finish build stories unless the motorcycles in question are constructed here in our home garage. Many folks contact us eager to share pics of their machines from the moment customization begins to the proud day when that tetanus-shot inducing pile of rusted metal becomes a
- [Loss of an Original](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/06/08/loss-of-an-original/) - We received word today of the passing of a longtime CRM pal and superb custom motorcycle builder, Cyril Huze. Huze relocated to the U.S. from his native France with a deep appreciation for the American V-twin scene, having worked for years at some of Europe's top advertising agencies while keeping an eye on the motorcycling
- [Show Nuff](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/05/30/show-nuff/) - Just about two months remain until our 11th Annual Custom Bike Show and we're received some very interesting pre-entry photos from builders both professional and amateur. Our man Sean Skinner will be up from his shop, Moto Relic in Virginia to display has latest creation, a stunner of a Yamaha RD400 two-stroke that he's just
- [Parts Just Got Scarcer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/05/22/parts-just-got-scarcer/) - One of the best aspects of restoring antique British motorcycles, I've learned, is the readily-available supply of parts. Weather searching for NOS bits to complete a drivetrain or engine rebuild or using used parts to save a few bucks, locating the necessaries to breathe life back into a classic bike has never proven terribly difficult.
- [Achieving The Impossible](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/05/14/achieving-the-impossible/) - Blake hard at work electrifying the T140 Triton special. It's been a couple of months since I received the diagnosis that I may not be capable of kickstarting motorcycles any longer. Accepting the vagaries of age and time (not to mention three-plus decades of damage to my foot from doing so) I didn't waste any
- [California Screamin'](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/05/05/california-screamin/) - Basking in the 91 degree dry heat and taking in the sights and sounds of countless fast motorbikes whizzing about, our annual journey t test ride new bikes in Southern California is always a mind-bender. The visit is even more meaningful having spent what proved to be oe of the coldest, wettest winters and springs
- [Chitown Rocks](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/04/24/chitown-rocks/) - Typically, we're far too busy in the editorial offices or garage to attend many motorcycle rallies. Thanks to our talented contributors, we still manage to cover quite a few events on both sides of the Atlantic. However, there's one annual two-wheeled get-together that's a must-see for team CRM and that's the upcoming Motoblot weekend in
- [Haggle With Me](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/04/16/haggle-with-me/) - Though my wife believes motorcycle parts swap meets to be a product from the Third Ring of Hell, I've long dug them. Sure, perusing row after row of dusty, rusty milk crates filled with obscure bike parts isn't to everyone's liking, I've unearthed some of the best bits for restoring and customizing old bikes at
- [Ride 'Em Don't Hide 'Em](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/04/04/ride-em-dont-hide-em/) - After over seven months of regular wrenching on our 1967 Norton Atlas project bike, the big, black beast fired to life on the second kick yesterday, promoting a n outbreak of grins around the CRM garage the likes of which haven't been seen since the first keg of Fuller's Extra Special Bitter was tapped last
- [SHOWTIME](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/03/27/showtime/) - Ah, what a difference a year makes. It's taken us nearly all seven months since our last Reader's Ride-In Custom Bike Show to both recover from the 2017 event and to launch a plan for this year's rally. Come Saturday, August 11, we'll once again throw open the gates of Sewickley's War Memorial Park for
- [Coolest Places on The Planet](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/03/20/coolest-places-on-the-planet/) - One tends to do a lot of reflecting upon reaching ten years in business. Lately, I've been looking back at some of the more remarkable places and events Cafe Racer magazine has been to over the past decade and one London spot comes up time and again. On a quiet, shadowy side street, we found
- [Unlikely Hero](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/03/13/unlikely-hero/) - There's a genuine thrill involved in opening new photo files from our staff photographers as we seldom know what to expect. Working primarily in his native UK, chief shooter Simon Everett somehow manages to unearth incredible custom bikes issue after issue. Some are traditional British specials comprised of air-cooled parallel twin engines and the sort
- [Calling All Amateur Builders](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/03/06/calling-all-amateur-builders/) - If you're the type of person who enjoys fiddling with the looks and performance of your bike but does such things as a hobby rather than a vocation, dig this- Indian Motorcycle Company has launched a new contest called The Wrench: Scout Bobber Build-Off. This nationwide competition basically asks for a trio of amateur bike
- [New Sportsters A Real Drag](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/02/27/new-sportsters-a-real-drag/) - Harley-Davidson has just released images of their new-for 2018 Iron1200 Sportster and it's a real corker. We especially dig the moody, black-on-black finish extending from the burly, 74 cubic inch engine to the shrouded forks. Inspired by the many street customs you'll see in places like Los Angeles, the Iron 1200 even rolls with a
- [Spring Flings](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/02/16/spring-flings/) - Last Year's Outlier's Guild Show Spring is nearly upon us- you can tell from the flood-like rains and stink bugs crawling out of the office woodwork- so here's a few must-do events to get yer motor runnin' for the new year. What’s On: 5th Annual Moto Chop Shop Party When: Saturday, March 10. Where: 6859
- [Must-Ride Bikes](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/02/13/must-ride-bikes/) - The Hyde Harrier Bonneville- A Must-Ride special For Certain This is a great time to be a motorcyclist. Or, more to the point, a motorcycle byer as sales are down across the board, making used machines a steal in most cases. With a bumper crop of new, retro-flavored streetbikes now filling showrooms, choosing the perfect
- [Not Dead, Just Yet](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/02/05/not-dead-just-yet/) - Our Humble Beginnings, Nearly Ten Years Old and Still Kicking The death of print may be greatly exaggerated in these digitally-obsessed times, but my, what a strange era in which to publish a motorbike magazine. Case in a very large script point: the country's largest circulation motorcycle magazine, Cycle World has just announced a switch
- [Gavels Down](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/01/25/gavels-down/) - Though the CRM team is, unfortunately, stuck here in frigid Pittsburgh this weekend, if you're anywhere near Las Vegas, you'll want to make a beeline to the South Point casino. That's where the Mecum Motorcycle Auction is going down. This is a veritable toy box of classic and not-so-classic motorbikes, all of which are for
- [The Things We Did For Money](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/01/30/the-things-we-did-for-money/) - When young, ambitious and perennially penniless, we tend to accept all sorts of oddball offers to make a buck. Just last weekend, Blair Powell, a frequent CRM contributor and longtime riding buddy, sent me a You Tube clip of an old Iron City Beer commercial I appeared in some 25 years back. I'd forgotten all
- [A Real Kick in the Starters](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/01/18/a-real-kick-in-the-starters/) - Leathers? Check. Cool helmet? Check. Kickstarter refusing to cooperate? Surely! Aging, as they say, is surely the ultimate humbling experience. I just left my doctor's office where I was unhappy to learn that, after nearly four decades of kickstarting motorcycles, my right foot is throwing in the towel on such activities. That means the sizable
- [The Home Stretch](https://www.caferacermag.com/2018/01/08/the-home-stretch/) - OK, the first successful kick-start of a newly completed custom bike project is one of life's great pleasures, but this photo illustrates another garage high of sorts. We've been working furiously on our 1967 Norton Atlas 750 project in recent weeks and we've made so much progress that the bike may well be on the
- [Low Bars and High Performance](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/12/31/low-bars-and-high-performance/) - Perusing images from the past couple of tripe to London's Ace Cafe, we noticed how many riders across the Pond were building cafe racers equipped with handlebars that, well, let's just say will please the chiropractor community. It's rather impressive to see custom speedbikes still being built in the tradition of the early Ton-Up spirit;
- [Hardasses Need Only Apply](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/12/18/hardasses-need-only-apply/) - Ah, 'twas but a few days before evidence of last week's post critiquing a new generation of cafe racer builders who favor designing rides that are basically intended to wow in custom shows instead of zoom along the roads began to roll in from readers. This is a prime example of the movement getting dangerously
- [Avoiding The Shark Tank](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/12/11/avoiding-the-shark-tank/) - By now, the phrase jumping the shark has become common vernacular. It originated, folks say, in the wake of an old "Happy Days" TV episode where the series resident biker, Arthur Fonzarelli, jumped a Great White shark, a move so cheesy, many viewers and critics felt it forever sacrificed the integrity of the show. The
- [The Hardest Part](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/12/01/the-hardest-part/) - This bloke had to feel silly in this gear! Likely the most common question leveled at us magazine makers is what's the toughest part of our job. Well, keeping the damn enterprise solvent in this day and age of Internet-digital media is always a challenge. But the regular installments of our humor page, known to
- [Royal Enfield Twins for 2018](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/11/20/royal-enfield-twins-for-2018/) - The Interceptor Continental GT 650 Regular readers of Cafe Racer magazine will know how fond we are of Royal Enfield's single-cylinder Continental GT. The spritley, 535cc thumper has long held a place in our garage fleet, serving us well as a backroads scratcher par excellence and a sturdy, everyday commuter ride. The Harris Bros. designed
- [Hell Bent for Honda Issue](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/11/10/hell-bent-for-honda-issue/) - Coming up in our December/January issue, we explore the always fascinating world of customized vintage Honda motorcycles.There are many theories concerning why Big red has become the default cafe bike for the 21st Century, from those who say it's the sheer volume of machines imported by the firms during the 1970s, to the inherent build
- [Three Fast, Talented Females](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/10/23/three-fast-talented-females/) - We really dig breaking new and unusual stories at CRM mainly due to the fact that interesting custom bike stories are so much fun to uncover. Next issue, we're presenting a generous spread on three young women from Arkansas who have waded deep into the DIY custom bike building game and, as you can see,
- [Get Yourself Heard on Driverless Cars](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/11/02/get-yourself-heard-on-driverless-cars/) - Like most transportation policy in this nation, decisions are made by elected officials and lobbyists without a single nod towards the concerns of us two-wheelers. Case in point- transportation providers like Uber are busy working to produce technology that would make driverless cars commonplace on our roads, but as they and several automakers do their
- [A Hero, Still Inventing](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/10/18/a-hero-still-inventing/) - I've been aware of the meticulous work and innovative designs of Swiss cafe racer engineer Fritz Egli ever since seeing one of his ultra-rare Vincent-powered specials at a London bike meet some 20 years ago. At the time, I was so blown away by actually seeing a Vincent Black Shadow cafe custom that I didn't
- [Shoulda Been Contenders](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/10/12/shoulda-been-contenders/) - Moto PGH. built this groovy Yamaha 650 That Shoulda Coulda Been a Winner 'Tis a strange and wonderful problem to have, but each yeear during our annual custom bike show, we're so busy with the organizing end of things that there's amazing custom bikes that miss our eye. Oftentimes- and this past August's even was
- [You Meet The Most Interesting Folks On Cafe Racers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/10/02/you-meet-the-most-interesting-folks-on-cafe-racers/) - Since launching this publication - in an Isle of Man hotel pub, of all places_ nearly 10 years ago, we've encountered some truly amazing and interesting people who also dig fast, sleek classic bikes. Among the first to phone in was singer and lifelong biker Billy Joel who called our offices so casually, we figured
- [Not As Hard As It Looks](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/09/18/not-as-hard-as-it-looks/) - Though I've been riding and tinkering with motorcycles for nearly 40 years, the actual, hands-on building of engines has been a skill I've never accrued. Being busy both working a demanding journalism career (or three) and simultaneously struggling to maintain a family life and an annual riding season of around 10,000 miles has left little
- [A Legendary Winner](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/09/06/a-legendary-winner/) - With dozens and dozens of entries pouring in during our August 12 Custom Bike Show to name the giveaway British Motorcycle Gear leather jacket, company honcho Paul Brooks has announced that he's chosen a winner. Turns out local dude Bob Mathe chose The Legend Jacket, which is a very fitting name. Bob will receive his
- [Your Chance To Own Our Mean, Green Machine](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/08/28/your-chance-to-own-our-mean-green-machine/) - It was during the very first season of Velocity's "Cafe Racer" TV series that one of the producers happened upon the idea of a low-buck build-off challenge episode. Me and my then co-host, rockabilly singer Ben Frideman, were taken to the AMA's Vintage Motorcycle Days weekend at Mid-Ohio and each given $1,000 cash. Our mission?
- [Steel City Mods Vs Rockers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/08/20/steel-city-mods-vs-rockers-2/) - The summer's soon to be winding down, but the good dudes at the Steel City Rockers are staging their annual custom speedbike and scooter get-together come Saturday, September 2. The Rocker club has taken the helm of this established event, adding new sponsors and reborn energy to the show, which is located on Grant Avenue
- [Missed The Show? Well, Dig This!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/08/17/missed-the-show-well-dig-this/) - Naturally, weather, logistics and professional commitments kept lots of folks who wanted to from attending last weekend's Custom Bike Show. Well, thanks to the good guys at Virginia's Cognito Moto, there's some very well-shot, high definition video of Saturday's events that just about sums up the fun, excitement and amazing machines on display. We especially
- [Our Greatest Show Yet](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/08/14/our-greatest-show-yet/) - With the skies pissing down on our Friday night Rebel yell Pre-Party, we were encouraged to find a hearty hundred souls in attendance. The screening of the Mods and Rockers classic "Quadrophania" at Sewickley's Tull Theater proved a hit and as we exited late nite, the skies were clearing, leaving us encouraged about Saturday's possibilities.
- [Time To Re-Tire](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/07/31/time-to-re-tire/) - If you've riding classic iron this summer and still running old school bias-ply ribbed tires, let us hip you to a serious piece of information. several tire manufacturers are currently rolling our modern, sticky radial rubber for vintage motorcycle rim sizes and after fitting a set to our 1978 Suzuki GS750 custom, the bike is
- [Swap Meet at Show](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/07/25/swap-meet-at-show/) - After nearly a decade in business, spare custom parts have tended to accumulate at the CRM HQ in numbers that could surprise the most dedicated pack rat. Our Tech Section has chronicled the construction of nearly a dozen motorbikes over the years and during the individual builds, bits and bobs that either didn't fit or
- [Who's Watching the Road?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/07/18/whos-watching-the-road/) - Just recently a morning traffic tie-up on my street caused several rush-hour commuters to, well, wait in line for a few moments. This being the age when waiting for most anything means instantly grasping for a smartphone, the panicked motorists all grabbed their electronic security blankets in unison. Granted, it being the morning rush and
- [Best of the Midwest](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/07/10/best-of-the-midwest/) - We were happy to set up shop at Chicago's annual Motoblot street festival a couple of weeks back where we'd promised to have our cameras ready to capture the custom bikes in attendance. More than 12,000 punters visited the show created by Larry Fletcher of Chicago Ton-Up, and though V-Twin cruisers were everywhere, CRM managed
- [Cool Off, Chill Out, Catch a Classic Ton-Up Flick](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/07/05/cool-off-chill-out-catch-a-classic-ton-up-flick/) - It's been seriously, tropical island hot around these parts for the past couple of weeks. It's the time of year when wise riders will choose to hot the streets in either early morning before the heat and summer humidity rise, or wait until near sundown, when evening breezes cool the atmosphere. We're anticipating similar weather
- [Name This Jacket and It's Yours](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/06/28/name-this-jacket-and-its-yours/) - Among the many attractions and cool things to do at this year's August 12 Reader's Ride-In Custom Bike Show is a chance to win a completely new leather riding jacket from British Motorcycle Gear. BMG's Paul Brooks knows a thing or two about quality motorcycle kit, having proffered top UK brands for years. This time,
- [Triple Threat](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/06/22/triple-threat/) - With their odd, whirring rumble of an exhaust note and their sturdy engineering, Triumph's first-generation triples are amazing pieces of machinery. We've been running a cool black 1996 Speed Triple since buying it new and, at 40,000 reliable miles, it continues to prove itself a capable, well-rounded mount, as comfortable at quick, backroads scratching as
- [Tools, Road-Ready](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/06/15/tools-road-ready/) - If you ride a vintage motorcycle, experience will soon teach you that having a set of tools handy on the road is not only a necessity, but one of the only things standing between completing a planned ride and spending time at the roadside, admiring the (static) scenery. Our good friends at Portland, Oregon's Langlitz
- [Era of Domination](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/06/13/era-of-domination/) - It's been nearly a couple of years since we started restoration work on a weatherbeaten, timeworn 1959 Norton Dominator and we're proud to announce that she's ready for the road. The job couldn't have been possible without the remarkable skills and acumen of CRM staffer Nick Coumos who has been riding and building Norton twins
- [Factory Cafe Road Tests](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/06/07/factory-cafe-road-tests/) - It's a truly magnificent time to be into retro streetbikes. The current issue of Cafe Racer focuses several road tests on the current crop of factory cafe customs, a breed of streetbike barely known a decade ago. One of our faves is Ducati's new Scrambler cafe Racer. The 800cc L-Twin combines the lightweight handling the
- [Two Months 'Til Showtime](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/06/07/two-months-til-showtime/) - The days are quickly counting down until the launch of our Tenth Annual reader's Ride-In Custom Bike Show. We've been receiving all sorts of amazing images of bikes that our readers are creating for entry and the competition promises to be stiff. We've a whole weekend of events planned- more details are just a click
- [Pandemonium Police Bike](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/05/29/pandemonium-police-bike/) - Dig this the bloody most! This sweet, green metalflake green Kawasaki Z-1 was built by Pandemonium Cycles and is featured in our June/July issue, on sale Tuesday. The former Police Special was already plenty fast, but the shop transformed it with upgraded wheels, brakes and front suspension, lending the big four a purposeful, racebike appearance.
- [Middleweight Mash-Up Completed](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/05/17/middleweight-mash-up-completed/) - Just a couple of weeks until our 100-page June/July issue hits the stands and we're quite proud to be concluding yet another of Cafe Racer's custom build features. Over the last couple of years (yes, it's been that long) we've chronicle\d every nut, bolt and mishap of the complete rebuild of our 1972 Honda CB500
- [Two Wheels on Two Reels Movie Night](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/05/03/two-wheels-on-two-reels-movie-night/) - Mods and Rockers On the Big Screen The weekend of August 11-12 is the date for our Tenth Annual Reader's Ride-In Custom Bike Show and we're proud to announce a few fun events before the actual custom concourse at Sewickley War Memorial Park. In conjunction with Sewickley's Tull Family Theater (418 Walnut St.)Cafe Racer magazine
- [Mouth-Watering Pork](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/05/08/mouth-watering-pork/) - We just had to offer a serving of this tasty piece of Milwaukee pork, rendered to perfection by Barnes Performance Cycles of Endwell, New York. Reader Abdrew Barnes did the do on what was a stock 883 Sportster, after watching episodes of Velocity's "Cafe racer TV," he says. "I took interest in cafe racers a
- [Swingin' Single](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/04/27/swingin-single/) - There are few types of streetbies that float our collective boats like single cylinder thumpers. The mechanical simplicity, the mad, raucous exhaust note and their ability to create thrust from so little make singles some of favorites. Case in point is reader Matthew Blaylock's Royal Enfield Continental GT. The Indian-made 535cc marvel is a massive
- [Calling All Custom Bike O.G.'s](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/04/22/calling-all-custom-bike-o-g-s/) - After spending the majority of this month on the road attending more new retro streetbike launches than you can shake a datalogger at, it's a shame I won't be able to attend this new shindig happening on the West Coast. I'm talking about the first-ever Outlier's Guild Motorcycle Show slated for May 8th. The event
- [Silly But Poignant Poster](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/04/14/silly-but-poignant-poster/) - I never really saw the attraction of those silly and omnipresent Internet meme posters that seem to pop up everywhere these days. That is, until my dear wife laid this baby on me a few days back. Being an admitted motorcycle version of the Crazy Cat Lady- you know, the type who spots an
- [Meet us at Motoblot](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/04/14/meet-us-at-motoblot/) - Bring your handbuilt iron to Handbuilt and appear in Cafe Racer magazine The warming weather brings our team back to the open roads where we'll be checking out the latest home-brewed custom motorbikes from one end of the country to the other. Two of our photographers will be attending the annual Handbuilt Show in Austin,
- [New Bikes Galore](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/04/05/new-bikes-galore/) - Tis spring and besides the budding greenery and start of riding season, the release of new motorcycles from the major manufacturers is at hand. 2017 promises to be a banner year for retro-flavored streetbikes with nearly all the OEM's busting out with cafe-inspired models, new naked performance roadsters and machines that will fill the
- [Beautiful Beemer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/03/27/beautiful-beemer/) - It's not everyday that an independent magazine gets a scoop that beats the big guys to the punch, but this time, the stars aligned in our favor. CRM contributor Paul Rudolf makes his daily green at European Motorcycles of Pittsburgh, a local shop that just happens to have an early-release model of BMW's wicked-cool
- [Bike of The Week](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/03/20/bike-of-the-week-2/) - Jurgan Hillenbrand’s BMW Hailing from Braunschwag, Germany, Jurgan rode his hand-built BMW Boxer custom all the way to London for the most recent Ace Cafe Reunion, pressing all the way back to the European continent even though his hand-made five-gallon fuel tank suffered a vibration fracture in the process. In fact, we were alerted
- [Bike Show Is A Go!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/03/14/bike-show-is-a-go/) - Get those polishing rags and wrenches humming as we're announcing the date of our 2017 Cafe Racer Reader's Ride-In Bike Show. This, our tenth annual meeting of the custom builder tribe, will take place on Saturday, August 12 at War Memorial Park in Sewickley, PA. As you can see from the image below, the
- [Lost In Translation](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/03/08/lost-in-translation/) - The funniest moments in life, we've come to learn, are seldom scripted. Come next issue (on sale April 4) we'll reveal why this is true with the latest installment of our regular Stylin' humor column. Many of us on CRM's staff are avid collectors of misspelled, poorly-interpreted translations of the English language and seldom
- [So Very Close...](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/03/02/so-very-close/) - From These Humble Origins... Comes This Built for Speed Beauty Regular CRM readers will be familiar with our 1972 Honda Cb500 project bike, a machine that, under the series title "Middleweight Mash-Up" has stretched over nine issues. The Honda was purchased at the AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days swap meet back in 2012 and
- [Rockers, Texas Style](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/02/23/rockers-texas-style/) - One of the most inspiring and downright fun events we're ever attended is the annual Rockers VS Mods rally in Dallas, Texas. The crowds the event drew were impressive to say the least, with equal numbers of restored, vintage scooters and way-happenin' cafe racers on display. This is a true rider's rally, with around
- [Web Upgrades and New Content](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/02/19/web-upgrades-and-new-content/) - A few of you faithful readers may have noticed a few bumps and glitches on this website as of late. For a couple of days during the past week or so, the site you're now reading may have proven inaccessible, but thanks to our skillful and hard-working tech crew, we've been resurrected with all
- [Bad Boy BMW](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/02/07/bad-boy-bmw/) - Father and Son Custom Showing an impressive 28,000 road miles on the clocks, CRM reader Ben Gurerro is understandably proud of what his son Afriano has done with this 1978 Beemer. The R100 Boxer twin was purchased last summer and the previous owner had begun an unsuccessful attempt at turning it into a cafe
- [Popcorn, Movies and Cafe Racers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/02/03/popcorn-movies-and-cafe-racers/) - Host of the long-running motorcycle radio program "Two Wheel Tuesday" Larry Ward has caught the low bars, high-performance bug, big-time. He's spent the past few weeks building his own custom road-burner, a 1979 Honda CB650, which he'll reveal on Tuesday, February 28 at the iHeart Medias Complex , 7461 South Avenue, Youngstown, Ohio. The
- [Viva Vegas Auction](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/02/01/viva-vegas-auction/) - Just back from the Mecum auction in Las Vegas, the annual celebration of classic and vintage motorbikes and collectibles. This is our third year at this event and the emerging trends are always fascinating to watch. The must-have machine for the past couple of years has been anything bearing the vaunted Vincent label,
- [Bike of the Week](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/01/23/bike-of-the-week/) - Overwhelmed- but in a good way. That's how we're feeling around the CRM offices after the flood of entries rolled in for our Bike of the Month contest. We're seen so many choice custom speedsters, in fact, that we're now serving up a new one this and every Monday for you,
- [Beer, Bikes and More Beer](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/01/16/beer-bikes-and-more-beer/) - Garage Brewed 2017 Come Saturday, January 28, Cincinnati, Ohio's custom streetbike scene will host one of the biggest indoor shows in the region. The annual Garage Brewed Show is a unique day-long celebration of custom bikes and even more highly customized beers. The whole thing goes down (sorry- unintentional beer drinking reference) at the Rheingeist
- [One for The Lady Riders](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/01/12/one-for-the-lady-riders/) - If You happen to be in the Los Angeles area this coming weekend and you're a female motorcyclist it's a good bet to make your way to the Lucky Wheels Garage where the Second Annual Women's Motorcycle Show is set to open. Hosted by Alicia Elfving of the Moto Lady Internet site, the event is
- [Cold, But Not Forever](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/01/07/cold-but-not-forever/) - Days like these, when the temperature struggles to breach 22 degrees can test the patience of many a motorcyclist. Here at CRM, our idle minds drift back to warmer days when the only worry is whether rain may interrupt a nice, day-long ride or which bike needs maintenance before being kicked to life.
- [One Cool SR 400](https://www.caferacermag.com/2017/01/03/one-cool-sr-400/) - Few modern motorbikes can boast of the lineage and authenticity of Yamaha's SR400. The venerable air-cooled single has been in continuous production since 1978, changing only a little in the nearly four decades hence. Yes, the 2016 models offer electronic fuel injection and maintenance-free batteries, but the kickstart-only thumper remains gloriously unchanged. As a result
- [Our Favorite  Bikes #2](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/12/21/our-favorite-bikes-2/) - We hear from some faraway riders customizing their bikes into cafe racers all over the globe, but our latest winner is perhaps the most unexpected of all. 22 year-old Hamza Azeem Butt hails from bustling Karachi, Pakistan, a city with a burgeoning custom retro motorcycle scene. Hamza is well-connected, having helped organize last
- [Prizes Galore at Cafe Racer IMS Gveaway](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/12/16/prizes-galore-at-cafe-racer-ims-gveaway/) - More than a few readers have contacted us asking what's on tap if they sign up for our prize giveaway at the Cafe Racer magazine booth at the upcoming Washington, D.C, and Cleveland IMS events so here's a sneak peek. Some of our advertisers have chimed in with some boffo prizes that one
- [Roll Up, Custom Motorbikes!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/12/12/roll-up-custom-motorbikes/) - OK, at first we promised to run a Bike of The Month in our regular blog, but in the weeks since our initial announcement, things have changed. The overwhelming response to the online competition has brought in so many amazing responses, that we're now planning to run a different reader's bike every two weeks. Just
- [Showtime Washington, D.C](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/12/06/showtime-washington-d-c/) - It's always a buzz to catch up with our readers and reveal the latest custom builds from deep within the skunk-works that is S.H.A.M.E. (Sewickley Home for Aged Motorcycle Engines, by the way.) We'll be doing just that when the Progressive International Motorcycle Show rolls into the Walter Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. come
- [](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/12/06/15592/) - Oops, They've Done It Again! In my column appearing in each issue of CRM, I often lament the general lack of skill, diligence and just plain common sense displayed by the car-driving public. Most drivers, especially those under 40, seem too addicted to their so-called smartphones to pay attention to the very serious business of
- [Our First Bike of The Month Winner](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/11/30/our-first-bike-of-the-month-winner/) - Lots of technically inspired, downright beautiful motorbikes rolled into CRM HQ after we announced the creation of a Bike of The Month contest, and after careful deliberations over several pints, a winner has presented itself for the month of December. This clean, customized DOHC Honda CB750F was built by Shawn Chase of Chase Custom Cycles. He
- [Best Tips for a Commanding Norton Commando](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/11/15/best-tips-for-a-commanding-norton-commando/) - It's been the better part of five years since we completed the comprehensive rebuild of our 1973 Norton Commando and we've nothing but good news to report. The Commando, Norton's last and final production machine is still popular with both restorers and custom Britbike enthusiasts for many reasons. Out machine started life as a raggedy
- [Commando In Command](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/11/14/commando-in-command/) - It's been the better part of five years since we completed the comprehensive rebuild of our 1973 Norton Commando and we've nothing but good news to report. The Commando, Norton's last and final production machine is still popular with both restorers and custom Britbike enthusiasts for many reasons. Out machine started life as a raggedy
- [Do You Own Our Custom Bike of the Month?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/11/04/do-you-own-our-custom-bike-of-the-month/) - 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
- [California Groovin'](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/10/24/california-groovin/) - 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
- [Ton-Up Weekend With Cafe Racer Mag at London's Ace Cafe](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/07/27/ton-up-weekend-with-cafe-racer-mag-at-londons-ace-cafe/) - 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 &
- [Showing Up is Everything](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/07/27/showing-up-is-everything/) - 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
- [Open Mike Blog - Sept. 23, 2014](https://www.caferacermag.com/2014/09/26/open-mike-blog-sept-23-2014/) - Funny how with the leaves here in Western Pennsylvania just beginning their fall color show, how precious riding becomes. When you live and ride in a state where the riding season is limited by Ma Nature’s whims, the realization that you’ve only got a few weeks left to do the crazy throttle twisting thang really
- [Global Custom Market](https://www.caferacermag.com/2014/10/07/global-custom-market/) - 'Tis a fascinating and strange time to be in the market for custom cafe racer parts. Or parts for just about any type of personalized vehicle. Thanks to the wonder/curse that is the Internerd, builders can source parts from places around the globe that were previously unavailable to average punters. Well, punters without the craving
- [End of Season Ride](https://www.caferacermag.com/2014/11/15/end-of-season-ride/) - With the extended weather forecast calling for the sort of weather that made the Battle of the Bulge so much fun, this, the first couple of weeks of November are a time to hustle. The daytime highs in this part of Pennsylvania soared into the high 60s several times, prompting the crew at CRM to
- [Naked Speed On The Horizon](https://www.caferacermag.com/2014/12/13/naked-speed-on-the-horizon/) - Keeping various media cats in their respective bags is a vain endeavor these days, so let it be known that the new season of Cafe Racer TV is nearly upon us. We’ve been hinting at the release date of the fifth season of the global hit Discovery Velocity series in Cafe Racer magazine for several
- [Rockers VS Mods 2014](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/01/12/rockers-vs-mods-2014/) - The nation's longest-running Rockers VS Mods event is not the incredible yearly soiree in Chicago- now known as Motoblot- but the Sand Diego RVM. This year's shindig starts on Friday, January 23 and runs full throttle for the entire weekend. CRM will be on hand to check out the latest in So Cal custom motorbikes,
- [Café Racer Blog - February 3, 2015](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/02/10/cafe-racer-blog-february-3-2015/) - Yesterday, we were riding through the Santa Monica Mountains, strafing canyons, exploring inconceivable lean angles and basically enjoying a week in sunny So Cal. The trip to test ride, photograph and generally soak in the West Coast streetbike scene has become an annual journey for team CRM and this year, what with Pittsburgh experiencing one
- [First Rides of (Almost) Spring](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/03/09/first-rides-of-almost-spring/) - After what the record books will surely note as the coldest winter in decades, Mr. Sol is again making an appearance, prompting much giddiness and expectation around the CRM garage. This is an odd time of year to go tearing up the local roads- and I say local as road conditions are just too potentially
- [Lights, Camera…Constantly Ringing Phone](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/03/31/lights-cameraconstantly-ringing-phone/) - With the inaugural season of Velocity’s “Naked Speed” now airing in re-runs, there’s a palpable sense of relaxation around these parts. Though a new season’s programs seem to pass by in a very hectic six-week flash, planning, producing, filming editing and later, completing all the post-production work it requires to crate a modern, high-definition TV
- [Getting Up To Speed](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/05/12/getting-up-to-speed/) - It’s a funny thing how rusty we can get at motorbike riding after a few months off for winter. Team CRM traveled to the west coast in January to dust off our riding skills and catch some much-needed sunlight, but after the brutal winter we experienced, we find ourselves not nearly as fast as we
- [The Show Must Go On](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/05/30/the-show-must-go-on/) - After seven years staging our annual Readers' Ride-In Bike Show at Mid-Ohio during the AMA’s Vintage Days celebration we’ve decided it’s time for some changes: come Sunday, August 23, we’re moving the massive custom café racer show to our own headquarters. That’s right, this year’s show will take place at 605 Beall Way in Sewickley,
- [A Worthy Show-Off](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/06/23/a-worthy-show-off/) - While in New York City over the past weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting 20th Century Cycles, the well-stocked garage of cafe racer enthusiast and longtime bike rider Billy Joel. After spending a day catching up with Alex Puls, the main wrench and bike wrangler at the shop, he suggested we pay a visit
- [Steel City Mods vs. Rockers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/07/21/steel-city-mods-vs-rockers/) - Known as the mods and rockers rally that could, Pittsburgh's vintage motorbike and scooter gathering has soldiered on despite crappy weather, venue changes and a local riding population only recently getting hip to the joys of classic machinery. This year's edition should prove to be the biggest yet, so get off your butts and ride
- [Assumed Dangers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/07/21/assumed-dangers/) - CRM pal, comedian and damned quick rider Alonzo Bodden has a bit he does about the strange phenomenon of non-motorcyclist’s bad habit of telling us creepy stories. “Why is it,” he asks, “that when people realize you ride a motorcycle, they feel the need to tell you the worst crash stories they can imagine?” His
- [Where's The Bikes Come Monday?](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/03/30/wheres-the-bikes-come-monday/) - 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
- [2016 Reader’s Ride-In Bike Show Is Go!](https://www.caferacermag.com/2016/02/10/2016-readers-ride-in-bike-show-is-go/) - 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
- [Winter Projects Real and Imagined](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/12/07/winter-projects-real-and-imagined/) - 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
- [Jettas and Smokers](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/09/27/jettas-and-smokers/) - 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
- [The Big Show](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/08/31/the-big-show/) - 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
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- [Live Long and Ride On](https://www.caferacermag.com/2015/01/06/live-long-and-ride-on/) - The news from the feds is good, for a change. No, make that great as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just reported a 6.4 percent decline in fatalities among motorcyclists during 2013. there were 4,668 motorcycle fatalities in 2013 vs. 4,986 in 2012 and 4,630 fatalities in 2011. The group of states without universal
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