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Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring Electric Rides, Royal Enfield’s 125th Anniversary, Team Green’s Water-Burner, Dustin Kott’s Turbo Honda, the Triumph National Rally, and Oustanding Retro Racers. Get yours today!

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FIRST RIDE MV Augusta Dragster Rosso

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...

Still Crazy After All These Years

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....

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...

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...

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...

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,...