Over the past 17 years, some of my favorite custom bike photo features we’ve run in Cafe Racer magazine have focused on motorcycles no one would ever suspect of making great canvasses for modification. The brilliantly conceived Suzuki bandit designed and built by Upstate, New York’s BCP Customs is just such a machine. The sleek,…

We’re just back from the annual AIME Powerspots Expo in Las Vegas, a multifaceted event that reveals the coming trends in streetbikes and all the cool, innovative kit that comes with them. Straight from the off, it was reassuring to see how strongly represented the cafe racer movement remains going into 2025. Nearly every OEM…

We recently heard from a longtime pal of Cafe Racer magazine, one Hiro Madea of Kobe, Japan. The 45 year-old is a veritable wellspring of energy and ideas in the country’s classic motorcycle and ton-up culture movements and for our February/March issue, he’s contributed some of his unique motorcycle photography to the mix. We first…

Longtime readers of Cafe Racer magazine will know we’re beyond skeptical when it comes to the rush to fill our roads with autonomous vehicles. The tecchies see a veritable gold rush in an unproven technology that rightfully strikes fear into the hearts of the two-wheeled community. A few years back I interviewed a representative from…