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This is not your typical Honda CB cafe racer. ‘Fade To Black’ is probably one of the fastest middleweight vintage Hondas we’ve featured on this site—and with a Yamaha YZF-R6 front end, one of the best handling too. It’s a 1975 CB550 belonging to Grant Harvey, a Canadian film and television director. In his high school days, Grant rode around on a Honda 125 enduro—but since then, his only riding has been on his old man’s Harley Road King. “I turn 50 this year, so my wife suggested I should…

A garage for special motorcycles and cafe racers

Sardinian workshop builds a burly shaft-drive café...The Suzuki GS850 combined a bored-out version of the GS750 inline four, the shaft drive from the GS1100, and naked styling reminiscent of the 70s superbikes. While it wasn't as fast as some of the pure sporting machines of the era, the 78-hp

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The correct answer to 'How many bikes?' is always 'one more.' And these two dapper Yamaha XS650s from German wunderkind Nico Mueller and Hookie Co. illustrate the point beautifully. The Dresden-based outfit landed the build commissions from two different sources. But since the briefs came in at almost the same time, and were so similar, the guys decided to tackle them as a pair. “Both clients wanted a classic cafe racer,” says Nico. “A parallel twin with clean lines and some modern…

Literally just received these yesterday. Installed and ridden for maybe 20 miles. To be honest, I’m not liking the look of it on my bike so selling them...

Brat - Honda CB1100F "Darkness" by Bombay Street Garage

Wrenchmonkies (Copenhagen) - Yamaha XS650 Cafe Racer for a customer in Paris