February/March 2025
Issue Out now

Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring the Taming the Widowmaker, BCP’s Naked Suzuki Cafe, Chris Cosentino’s Hypermono Racer’sand the Marmite Triton. Get yours today!

February/March 2025
Issue Out now

Out now, Café Racer’s latest issue featuring the Taming the Widowmaker, BCP’s Naked Suzuki Cafe, Chris Cosentino’s Hypermono Racer’sand the Marmite Triton. Get yours today!

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CR TECH Lithium Batteries Explained

CR TECH Lithium Batteries Explained

CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Differentiating different batteries: A traditional AGM or sealed lead acid battery (1) is larger and far heavier than a Firepower lithium cell battery (2), which is equipped with a built-in LED test light, and the tiny Shorai lithium...

FIRST RIDE MV Agusta Dragster America

FIRST RIDE MV Agusta Dragster America

Stars & Stripes for a Razor-Sharp Italian Bright colors and easy-read tachometer make the Dragster America's dash a plus. Lighted handlebar switches are ace. The bars are wide and comfy and the bar-end mirrors fold in if lane-splitting is legal in your state. The...

FIRST RIDE BMW F900 GS

FIRST RIDE BMW F900 GS

Both the yellow and white F900GS are born to climb mountains and ford streams. Or, in our case, zip along backroads like a cafe racer (well, almost). The Akrapovic muffler makes sweet music from the 895cc par- allel twin engine. The very definition of all-dayriding...

Modern History The Ace Cafe’s 30th Anniversary

Modern History The Ace Cafe’s 30th Anniversary

Story by Mike Seate  •  Photos by Simon Everett Three rapid-paced decades have zipped by since London’s Ace Cafe held its first reunion party. Back then, the once-popular transport cafe had been bought by a tire changing firm, its tall bay windows filled...

Bandit in Disguise

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...

AIME At The Future

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...