For a mode of transportation, motorcycling generates a great deal of unique creativity. In our current, October/November issue, Cafe Racer profiles once such two-wheeled visionary, the artist Makoto Endo. The Japanese painter spent much of his career in design and advertising before realizing he’d rather express his love of motorbikes on canvas. That decision has…

      Just back from San Jose in foggy Northern California for the four-day global launch of Royal Enfield’s new twins. The much-anticipated bikes have been in the pipeline for several years and to say they’re an important step in the Indian manufacturer’s program is an understatement. We always dug the Continental GT 535…

Come our huge, 100-page October/November issue, we take a look at one of the unsung bargains of the retro custom world, Suzuki’s fabulous GS750. released in 1978, the Gs was Suzuki’s first big four-stroke machine. The very modern double overhead cam engine is still a peach to unleash as it’s smoother, quicker and more tractable…

This year marked the 21st year that I’ve been visiting London’s annual Ace Cafe Reunion. The fabled transport cafe, built in 1938, was the home of a tire depot when the first reunion was held in 1994 and after re-opening in 2001, the crowds that gather for the ride from North London down to the…

Thanks to the assistance of you, our readers, we managed to locate the winner of the 2nd Place Best Japanese Cafe Racer trophy at our August 12 Custom Bike Show. We couldn’t have completed our special, 12-page photo essay on the amazing entries at this year’s event without you, so a tip o’ the pint…

In the weekend-long hustle, bustle and confusion of staging this year’s Reader’s Ride-In Custom Bike Show, a few things inevitably go wrong. In this instance, we mistakenly handed off the crucial information allowing us to contact the Second Place winner in the Best Japanese Cafe Racer category. His bike was a stunner of a silver…

Though we’re being careful not to release any images of the various trophy class winner’s from this months Reader’s Ride-In Custom Show, we decided to share one of the more memorable- and unexpected – entries. Sidecar rigs may not, in fact, qualify as pure cafe racers, but the popularity of the three-wheelers has proven consistent…

Our 11th Annual Reader’s Ride-In Custom Show is in the history books now and despite a weekend-long threat of rain and thunderstorms, the event was a smash. The collection of antique and custom iron on display was far different in its scale and scope than before, proving there’s more innovation and mechanical experimentation going on…

There was a long discussion recently within the CRM garage about which classic and custom machines will become the top money sellers of the near future. As anyone who has restored a vintage motorcycle can attest, such project are generally undertaken for a love of doing so, not for any prospective profits that may or,…