Café Racer

Cafe Racers – A motorcycle once synonymous with youth counterculture of the 1950s and 1960s, (namely ‘Rockers’) have seen a resurgence in the first two decades of the 21st century. With an assertive stance and a lean, though sometimes muscular, silhouette, this stripped-back street racer has attracted new riders and brought experienced riders back into the saddle. Amateur enthusiasts of the ’50s and ’60s once stripped back their street bikes and transformed them into cafe racers to emulate factory racers. Nowadays, factories look towards ‘New Wave’ custom culture, with which the custom-built cafe racer is now more commonly associated, for inspiration to design retro motorcycles.

The yard-built culture lives on and has transformed the motorcycle industry in recent years. Many of those bike builders have gone professional and are fabricating bikes with finishes that rival global motorcycle manufacturers. And, they create these bikes to your specification.

It’s easier than ever to commission your dream custom café racer. Here we’ve listed some of the finest custom motorcycle workshops and bike builders who specialise in custom café racers.

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Dream Wheels Heritage

Dream Wheels Heritage of Portugal, is a custom bike brand with a real passion for handcrafted and customised objects. The workshop’s main area of focus is to create custom-made machines by

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South Garage Motor Co.

South Garage Motor Co, is a laboratory of ideas, that brings its client’s customisation projects to fruition. Specialising in café racers, bobbers and

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Rebels Alliance Motorcycles Co.

Rebels Alliance is born from a clear single-minded belief: produce desirable, well-made items that we, as members, would be proud to wear and own. What we produce will be limited, handcrafted items that stand for our beliefs,

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Benjies Cafe Racer

At Benjies Cafe Racer (BCR), the bikes they start off with, are vintage bikes that probably aren’t seen by a great many people; partly because the previous

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Lossa Engineering

Lossa Engineering, specialises in building custom vintage bikes, suitable for everyday use, road racing or even simply to be displayed as museum pieces. Lossa’s design approach,

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JvB MOTO

JvB lets their work do their talking for them so you’ll not find anything on their website, describing their approach to bike building, other than press clippings.  They predominately focus on newer bikes 90s onwards, redesigning.

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El Solitario MC

Up in northern Spain, there’s a workshop that stopped paying attention to the rule book years ago. El Solitario MC doesn’t build bikes to win trophies or chase sales figures, and they’re clear about that.

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Blitz Motorcycles

Established in 2010, Blitz Motorcycles of Paris, is a custom workshop, headed by Fred Jourden and Hugo Jezegabel. Together, they conceive, customise

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The Baron’s Speed Shop

The Baron’s Speed Shop, occupies a high profile position in the British custom bike scene owning to the immaculate and pristine quality of their builds. That’s even

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Wrenchmonkees

Founded in a Copenhagen basement 2008, Wrenchmonkees’ motivation at that time was to redesign and build unique custom bikes, that disrupted custom bike scene.

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Untitled Motorcycles

Founded in London in 2010, Untitled Motorcycles (UMC), has workshops London and San Francisco. UMC, build bespoke custom motorcycles designed for every day use.

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Analog Motorcycles

Analog Motorcycles was founded by Tony Prust, in 2008 out of passion, principal, and necessity. Combining and applying skills from his past careers.

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