This January’s Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycle Auction was a marathon five-day affair. The proceedings at the sprawling South Point hotel and casino began slowly on Tuesday, January 27th with the auctioneer rolling through a series of recently manufactured machines, many...

No 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...