Café Racer
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EICMA 2018: The Kawasaki W800 is back – in Street or Cafe clothes
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One of the most enduring and identifiable Kawasaki motorcycle families, the Kawasaki parallel twin, air-cooled W stable will house two more thoroughbreds in 2019 bearing the names W800 Street and W800 CAFE. Having little in common with previous iterations, the newly born Euro4 compliant twins are “90% new” with a whole host of styling, technical…
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EICMA 2018: Honda’s 2019 CB650R appears for the first time in production form. It’s a small CB1000R Neo Sports Cafe roadster type-of-thing
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It’s hardly earth-shattering news (largely because we’ve been banging on about the CB650R becoming a Neo Sports middleweight for most of 2018) but it’s finally here. The Honda four-cylinder engine looks very similar to the CB1000R funky naked roadster, comes with 41mm Showa SFF USD forks, radial-mount four-piston brake calipers, Honda Selectable Torque…
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INTERMOT: Ducati unveils THREE updated Scrambler variants. Desert Sled. Cafe Racer. Full Throttle.
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Following on from the launch of the new Scrambler Icon a couple of weeks ago, Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicale was on hand at INTERMOT in Cologne, to unveil THREE new additions to the Scrambler range for 2019; the Full Throttle, the Café Racer and the Desert Sled. BIG CHANGES FOR 2019 – All-new headlight with LED…
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EVENTS: Bike Shed’s Café Racer Cup heads to Lydden Hill
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Café Racer Cup – Bike Shed’s brand new summer event heads to Lydden Hill later this month. Taking place on Saturday 21st July, the all-new event promises a packed day of Café Racer action. Celebrating the bikes that kick-started the new-wave custom scene, and a whole crop of new machines from the mainstream manufacturers, the…
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Got an old Suzuki Bandit? Fancy doing this with it? Yep, us too…
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Oh man, we are loving this special from Spanish-based custom bike builder XTR Pepo. The man behind the company is Pepo Rosell. A former fish farming scientist (seriously) who ditched fins for fine machines he worked for two Spanish Ducati importers before setting up on his own. Setting up Radical Ducati in 2001 he switched…
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Video: Café Racer ride through the Dolomites with GoPro
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To launch its sixth generation camera, GoPro sent childhood mates and motorbike riders Joe and Stefan and a fully rebuilt 1979 Kawasaki KZ400 Café Racer out for their first test ride on the winding mountain roads of the Italian Dolomites. Ok, so let’s try to ignore their lack of protective gear – after all, things…
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Kawasaki launches the Z900RS Café. Oddly worded name – trick looking motorcycle
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Eagerly anticipated following sight of the Z1 inspired Z900RS at the Tokyo Motor Show, Kawasaki targeted the EICMA show to debut another retro sport machine – the Z900RS Café. A step away from standard, the bike gets a low handlebar, a bikini cowling and stylish seat complete with rear hump. Multi-spoke cast wheels give the…
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Honda’s 2018 big naked. More details emerge from teaser video
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https://youtu.be/H6tHYyl5Ki8 Honda has released its second video teaser under the ‘Neo Sports Cafe’ banner – and this time there’s a lot more on show of the big retro-styled naked that we’ll see at EICMA in early November. Whilst Honda hasn’t given all the game away the new video does show that the bike…
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‘Official’ images of Kawasaki’s 2018 Z900RS revealed
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According to the brilliant Scoop-miesters at Dutch outlet Oliepeil, these are the official images of the 2018 Kawasaki Z900RS. If it turns out to be the case that these images are the actual bike then we can now appreciate, in its final glory, the retro big naked that’s one of Kawasaki’s most important models of…
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Video: Honda Neo Sports Cafe teaser shows bits of things to come
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Honda is upping the tease-video game nicely ahead of the Tokyo Motor Show at the end of the month with a nice pointer towards something cafe racer on the way. This video (below) is the latest from the Honda Neo Sports Cafe (yeah, that’s the name – we like it) and is clearly sticking to…
