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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50 Year Birthday party for Vanson

Heads-up all you New England-area vintage and custom riders. Vanson, the maker of high-quality motorcycle leathers and textile riding gear is celebrating their 50th Anniversary the weekend of June first and second. In the motorcycle protective gear game, quite a few...

End of The Road for Cafe Racer magazine’s Bike Show

Fifteen years is a very long time to stage a regional custom motorcycle show. It’s an even longer stretch considering the annual Cafe Racer Reader’s Ride-In Custom Show was the country's only ride-in event dedicated to the low-barred, highly modded motorcycles that...

Finding The Perfect Road

Fresh back from our annual fortnight journey to So Cal to test new streetbikes, there's always a flood of memories competing for brain-space when we return. In the brief timespan we have in the Agoura Hills area, we're constantly on the search for challenging and...

Return of the Parallel Twin

Cafe Racer Magazine's away team headed to sunny So Cal this week for a well-needed update of sorts. We've hit up several major motorcycle manufacturers for test bikes to get a feel for their latest naked performance offerings. Though we hadn't even considered the...

Royal Enfield Custom Contest Winner’s Circle

  In the months since announcing the first Royal Enfield Custom Contest, our eyes have been blown open by the sheer adaptability of the Indian-made machines. The global competition has been open to Royal Enfield-branded bikes regardless of year of manufacture,...

BSA Gold Star- First US Test Ride

As advertised, cafe Racer magazine is the first US publication to throw a leg over the sculpted saddle of the re-born BSA's Gold Star 650. Our test rider Mark Mederski volunteered to evaluate the 21st century take on the British classic single and he returned from the...