The café racer motorcycle is a fascinating relic of the past. Originating from the vibrant motorcycle culture of the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s, café racers were the brainchild of young ...

Harry has been writing and talking about motorcycles for 15 years, although he's been riding them for 45 years! After a long career in music, he turned his hand to writing and television work, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. SlashGear published a long list of tools and tech you should avoid buying on Amazon in 2024, and while café racer motorcycles didn't make the ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the rock-n-roll rebellion happened in the towns and cities of the British Isles. It arose out of post-war young adults wanting to escape the dreary conventions of UK ...

The café racer style of motorcycles was born from a particular era. Just as small street bikes still draw inspiration from Japanese models of the 1970s and 1980s, modern café racers hearken back to ...

Robert Earl Keen once said, “The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” The custom motorcycle world might suggest a slight change: “The modifications go on forever and the build sheet never ...

The last time Levis introduced a new motorcycle was in 1938, three years before it would shut down. Eighty years later, the Levis logo is resurfacing on the V6 Café Racer, a brand new motorcycle built ...

If the hundreds of vintage cafe-style bikes we're seeing on the road (and on Craigslist and in Gilmore's garage) weren't enough of a sign that this is a real movement -- akin to the renaissance of the ...

A few years ago, if you wanted a good-looking cafe racer–style motorcycle, you either had to find a custom bike shop to build one within your budget, or buy an old, used bike and wrench it yourself.