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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...





