Tag: cafe racer
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Many will remember the Yamaha XS Eleven by BlackSilver Customs from our post in September.Well Ian Ketterer's not been gathering any moss and in between front-end mods,filler caps and other slightly less exciting jobs on his new lathe (gotta pay those bills) he's turned out two bikes since the big bruiser,although they have been in […]
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Two custom cafe racers from the imaginatively named Retro Prestige Motorcycles.The first,BMW R65 'Le Coquin' is RPM's first commissioned build since moving to their new premises in Paarden Island,a semi-industrial neighbourhood just outside Cape Town's city center.The second is the owner,David's bike…a BMW R100RS which took him about 2 years to build and foreshadowed the […]
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Let's face it.Cape Town has always been Japanese superbike country and before the supers ruled the roads the muscle bikes were at the top of the food chain…course back then they were also called superbikes….you know what i mean.So it stands to reason that there's been many attempts at customizing the plethora of bikes to […]