February/March 2026 Issue Out now
Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring Roughchild’s Radical BMW Boxer, Suzuki TL1000 Cafe Custom, Buell 1190 Road Test, and Triumph Thruxton and Tracker 400s. Get yours today!
December/January 2026
Issue Out now
Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring Roughchild’s Radical BMW Boxer, Suzuki TL1000 Cafe Custom, Buell 1190 Road Test, and Triumph Thruxton and Tracker 400s. Get yours today!
Blog
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...
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...
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,...
Honda’s 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...
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...
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...





