Cafe racer tank

For more than six decades the Honda CB series has been doing it all, from small capacity commuter bikes to

Some custom motorcycle builders grow up riding and wrenching, and that early start is obvious in their work. On the flip side, 25-year-old Nick Hooper's been fiddling with bikes for less than three years now—but you wouldn't think it, looking at this perfectly proportioned Honda CB750. Nick lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he works as a music producer and session guitarist. A friend got him onto his first bike, a Honda CB350, just a few years ago. He jumped in with both feet, teaching…

It takes a healthy imagination to create a good custom motorcycle. You need the ability to look through a stock bike and see its potential. Or, if you're Bryan Moses, look at a rusted pile of bits and visualize this brawny Honda CB750 cafe racer. Bryan's a hobbyist based in Geneseo, New York. Most of the time he works out of his home garage, but when that doesn't cut it, he moves his projects to his family's collision repair shop up the road. According to Bryan, there's no “cool story for…

I receive a regular stream of Honda CBs through my inbox and it takes something unique to capture my attention. Simply named Bolt Motor Co. '008' this Honda was built for a workshop friend who wanted a café racer that contained equal parts of style and comfort.

This Honda VF750 Café Racer is build by Lucky Custom. Amazing bike with great specs: 86HP, liquid cooled V4 engine. Check out more pictures!

For his 7th project Argentinian builder, Lucas Layum pulled out all the stops. His ‘Bull’ cafe racer is without a doubt an impressive machine. But once we learned that it started out as a BMW R1100 S Sports Tourer our minds were officially blown.

KZ650 cafe-racer. New fuel tank. – Gazzz Garage

Against all odds, the eternally goofy Honda CX500 has become a popular choice for custom projects. But it's hard to get 'right,' as bike builder Patricio Germano now realizes. When it arrived in his workshop, this CX500 had already been worked over—but it was in dire need of a makeover. Patricio runs the Invader Cycle Company workshop out of San Martín, in the greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area of Argentina. Invader is mostly a one-man-show, but Patricio had some help on this project…

Sardinian workshop builds a burly shaft-drive café...The Suzuki GS850 combined a bored-out version of the GS750 inline four, the shaft drive from the GS1100, and naked styling reminiscent of the 70s superbikes. While it wasn't as fast as some of the pure sporting machines of the era, the 78-hp