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
Mouth-Watering Pork
We just had to offer a serving of this tasty piece of Milwaukee pork, rendered to perfection by Barnes Performance Cycles of Endwell, New York. Reader Abdrew Barnes did the do on what was a stock 883 Sportster, after watching episodes of Velocity's "Cafe racer TV," he...
Two Wheels on Two Reels Movie Night
Mods and Rockers On the Big Screen The weekend of August 11-12 is the date for our Tenth Annual Reader's Ride-In Custom Bike Show and we're proud to announce a few fun events before the actual custom concourse at Sewickley War Memorial Park. In conjunction with...
Swingin’ Single
There are few types of streetbies that float our collective boats like single cylinder thumpers. The mechanical simplicity, the mad, raucous exhaust note and their ability to create thrust from so little make singles some of favorites. Case in point is reader Matthew...
Calling All Custom Bike O.G.’s
After spending the majority of this month on the road attending more new retro streetbike launches than you can shake a datalogger at, it's a shame I won't be able to attend this new shindig happening on the West Coast. I'm talking about the first-ever Outlier's Guild...
Meet us at Motoblot
Bring your handbuilt iron to Handbuilt and appear in Cafe Racer magazine The warming weather brings our team back to the open roads where we'll be checking out the latest home-brewed custom motorbikes from one end of the country to the other. Two of our photographers...
New Bikes Galore
Tis spring and besides the budding greenery and start of riding season, the release of new motorcycles from the major manufacturers is at hand. 2017 promises to be a banner year for retro-flavored streetbikes with nearly all the OEM's busting out with...





