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!

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...