Starck's Aprilia 6.5 MotoOUTLANDISH motorcycle designer Philippe Starck, the man behind such 'memorable' motorcycling carbuncles as the Aprilia Moto 6.5 and the Voxan Starck Cafe Racer Super Naked has made a string of amazingly frank revelations

have transformed a standard Thruxton into a rather chic cafe racer, with a custom-made top yoke and bar set, a recrafted headlight assembly, fat anodised spokes wheels (3.50x17 and 5.00x17 shod with Bridgestone BT-016 rubber) and of course the trademark

BMW HAS pulled the covers off their latest thinking at this year's Milan Show in the form of a wacky, futuristic six-cylinder concept machine.The bike, dubbed the 6-Pack, is a semi-faired, cafe racer-styled concept bike from the future, powered

WOULDN'T IT be great if riders, especially short or tall ones, could raise and lower their bike's seat at the touch of a button? And wouldn't it be even better if that simple shift could transform a bike from a cruiser into a cafe racer

HOLLYWOOD STAR Brad Pitt has been left in the 'Brad Pitt' again, after one of his custom-built vintage motorcycles broke down while the actor was out-and-about in LA.The machine at the centre of Pitt's woes is a Ducati-engined cafe racer, concocted

THE winning design that will become the 'world's first crowd-sourced motorcycle' has been chosen by up-starts Mo2or is the above cafe racer.After six weeks of voting the concept that should hopefully become a reality was designed by Arnau Sanjuan

CUSTOM builders Deus Ex Machina have managed to make quite a stir since appearing on the scene six years ago.The firm's take on retro-cool cafe racers, usually with an intentionally 'home-made' style and an aura of surf culture around them, has

Hall of Fame Museum. Proceeds from VMD support the Museum's mission of preserving motorcycling's heritage.One of the special activities planned for 2008 Vintage Motorcycle Days is a display of 1980 and earlier cafe racers, a style that's closely

to be from the Corsaro, for instance, with a conventionally-placed monoshock as opposed to the old 1200 Sport's side-mounted spring. However, we reckon that the fuel tank is the one from the 1200 Sport.What is new is the cafe-racer-style seat. If you think

-minded people became a way of life. The Cafe Racer - the term, the man and the machine, was born.It's a movement that's long since been relegated to the history books - the horrific death toll among the ton-up boys led to a tabloid war that thrust bikers