Next issue, due in early April, will feature a Scrapbook photo essay we found quite by accident. Being a history buff with parents who were both involved in WWII, I’ve long been fascinated by the 20th Century’s bloodiest global conflict. I’d read about a massive re-enactment in a local newspaper last summer, detailing a D-D…

Since as early as issue #7, Cafe Racer Magazine has been an ardent supporter of the newly reborn Norton Motorcycles. Being huge fans of the original Bracebridge Street firm, we were chuffed to learn in 2009 that the British manufacturer, headed by venture capitalist Stuart Garner, was back in business. Their plan was a modest…

The newest issue of CRM, our February/March editon, features a cover story on one of the powersports industry’s leading visionaries- Southern Californbia’s Roland Sands. The former AMA roadracing champ has been busy for the past couple of decades churning out a showroom full of groundbreaking parts and accessories and there’s even a top-tier motorcycle riding…

Only a few days left until Cafe Racer’s February/March issue drops and we wanted to turn our readers on to a sneak preview of an upcoming feature story we’re quite proud of. In our ongoing quest to serve-up detailed technical information, we conducted an in-depth interview with Bryan Dwight owner and spray-gun wizard of South…

Regular readers of the magazine will be familiar with our ongoing Triumph Trident 900 project bike. The one-off special is being built by our team with assistance from Cafe Racer Kits, a UK firm who specialize in very comprehensive and well-engineered custom bike parts. The parts and accessories included are pretty much summed up by…

We’re just back from the Washington, D.C. Progressive International Motorcycle Show where the massive crowd was definitely into the custom cafe bike scene. I was enlisted by the organizers to stage several tech talks in the show’s vintage bike arena on how to select the proper donor bike to build a cafe racer and to…

A great means of breaking up winter’s monotony is upon us as the CRM crew are headed South to the Washington, D.C. Progressive International Motorcycle Show. Stop by our booth to say hello, shoot the breeze, check out one of the more recent shop builds and pick up some cool swag we have on offer….

We rediscovered this image recently that goes back to the very first batch of photos that helpful folks submitted to us back in 2008 when this magazine wad first launched. It reminds us of the sheer power of necessity and value when it comes to building custom motorcycles, both of which are exemplified by the…

Regular readers of Cafe Racer will know well our ongoing attempts to install an electric starter in a Triumph 750 engine. The engine, nestled within the featherbed frame of a Triton custom, has, in the past two years, been treated to a retro fitting of the timing gears, starter and other bits to allow push-button…