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CB 750 Four cafe racer by Luke Zeigler

The latest release by LHC - Holland

Mr. Martini’s stand at EICMA was the most beautiful. The elegance and the fine atmosphere were what the most loyal riders already know for visiting his studio in Verona ...  But, what really matters was the content of the stand... Read the rest on Inazuma Cafe blog!

Check out the video of this artwork...

Federico Baldacchino is  a Domi specialist but last week-end at the Novegro Swap & Meet he presented his first "Aniba" brat scrambler based on a 1993 Honda Seven Fifty.... How do you like it?

Federico and Pierfrancesco (with Eugenio Rapposelli), a.k.a. Basic Garage  introduce their excellent 1986 R65 scrambler, admittedly inspired by the CRD's projects

When the legendary Yamaha SR was launched in 1978, its designer Atsushi Ishiyama said: "Our choice was to design the new SR with a strong family image and a strong link to our first four stroke, the XS 650 twin, which was also inspired by British design”. After 35 years, this bike is legendary.

A garage for special motorcycles and cafe racers

One of the peculiarities of Stefano Venier’s bikes is that they are not built on commission, but made to match the taste of the builder and eventually sold in a small number of releases. This allows Stefano to curate his own style and develop his own ideas. In this case, the Cagiva 350 is one of the first bikes he rode when he was younger.

1977 Kawasaki Z650- Tolouse (France)

This Yamaha XS 400, named KC#001, arrived at the Kruz studio in really bad shape and with the engine broken down. The Kruz team decided to give the bike a new tracker style and every single piece of the machine was reshaped, .

Certainly one of my favorite builds on stage at the EICMA show in Milan last week was this 1985 BMW K100 RS by Vibrazioni Art Design.

Dino Romano, who is not new to the tuning of beautiful and aggressive Rocket 2.3 litres specials, built for Italo Fontana of U-Boat  this incredible bike and presented it last week at the EICMA show in Milan where it was hosted in the official Triumph area... Impressive!

Sylvain Barel is 41 yo and lives in Reunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. His project, based on a 1990 Sportster 883XL started more than three years ago.... And this beauty is the result...

Last week at the EICMA show in Milan, Brough Superior Motorcycles unveiled its new SS100, a 1000 cc Sport Classic designed as a 90th anniversary of the most famous Brough Superior model in the company’s history. 

This is the first build of Grifo Motorcycle from Portugal. an heavily modified 1990 Yamaha XJ 600

My friend Frankye is a kind of guru of the cafe racer culture in the Conero area. Fugar Metal Worker from Ancona cuts the metal like the butter and his hands make real sculptures. MetalBike Garage makes classy aluminum components in Turin. If we combine these three things we have a 99% chance to make a great bike. Frankye put the remaining one per cent with the idea of creating the Sturm und Drang.

This Moto Guzzi Le Mans II comes from La Coruña in Spain. It was originally tuned in the early eighties by Andrés Pérez Rubio, a Spanish motorcycling champion, and was eventually brought to José Calviño Dominguez of Rizine who made this nice cafe racer.

The Wrenchmonkees' project on a Laverda SF750 is now almost completed...

Casey "Headcase" Johnson's 1995 Sportster 883 cafe flakester.

Elegance made in Japan: 1996 SR400 by Slug Cycle - Kobe