December/January 2026 Issue Out now

Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring Steel City Mods VS Rockers, British Bike Day Japan, AHRMA Weekend, and the Turbo Suzuki G5 Special. Get yours today!

December/January 2026
Issue Out now

Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring Steel City Mods VS Rockers, British Bike Day Japan, AHRMA Weekend, and the Turbo Suzuki G5 Special. Get yours today!

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Dave Degens – A Cafe Racing Giant

Back some 40-odd years, CRM contributing writer Blair Powell used to subscribe to England's Classic Bike magazine. The monthly provided a glimpse into a world of motorcycling that was fresh and completely new, especially for two twentysomethings riding funky old...

Unlikely Ton-Up Donor Bike

Coming up in Cafe Racer magazine's February/March issue, we feature a customized motorcycle that has to rank as one of the least-likely modern machines to become a favorite of custom cafe designers. We're looking at Suzuki's torque-monster TL100S, a wild V-twin...

Drug Lords and Ducatis

The motorcycle racing community was burst wide open last week with the release of images taken in a Mexico City garage. Inside that dark, dusty warehouse, drug enforcement agents from the US, Mexico and Canada had parked dozens of motorcycles reportedly belonging to...

A Wining Combination

After four years and many starts and stops, the longest-running custom motorcycle project we've ever undertaken at CRM has finally come to a grand conclusion. The classic British bike we dubbed The Combination Commando was an all-hands-on-deck proposition, taxing the...

A Smaller Slice of Speed

In one of the biggest announcements to hit the retro/cafe racer market this year, England's Triumph released news of not one, but two all-new 400cc single-cylinder machines this week. And true to the re-born manufacturer's form, the motorcycles are good-looking,...

Honda’s Late ’70s Groove

1979 was a big year in my house- I turned the magic age of 16, meaning a license to operate a motorcycle on the street was possible and, if I had anything to do with it, inevitable. I'd managed to talk my way into a job at a local fast-food joint at age 15...