DOWNSHIFT STUDIO HONDA CX500

Well today’s blog is cool as I consider this builder as a friend of mine, DownShift Studio is run by Jeremy Lacy, an industrial designer based in Denver who specializes in illustrations and sketches of custom bikes, often helping fabricators and builders from around the world visualize their ideas and projects before the metal is […]

Short Movie Bonnie Lass

Todays Blog is a short movie about a couple of fellas that ride from one cafe to another to meet a couple of Birds, along the way, riding through their town and a motorcycle garage, shame they didnt stop in there but, they head to the cafe and meet up with a couple of Girls, […]

CB500-4 Created by French Builders

Well if you think of France, usually what comes to minds is Wine, frog legs, snails, striped Tee shirts, Black berets and people riding push bikes with bunches of Onions and Garlic hanging off it. Thats very true, but, they bang out a few cool motorcycle too and this 1974 Honda CB500 Four is the result […]

RARE ORIGINAL HONDA CB750 PHIL READ REPLICA

The Colin Seeley-built Honda CB750 Phil Read Factory Replica is a very rare motorcycle, approximately 150 were made and they have the distinction of being the first fully faired race replica available to buy off the showroom floor from a Japanese marque.   COLIN SEELEY The motorcycle frames developed by Colin Seeley in the 1960s and onwards were so […]

Hiawatha the Bonneville that’s Sharper than a Tomahawk!

Well, you see many different style of Motorcycles around the globe that have taken a good and strong foot hold on the Cafe Racer, Brat, Bobber, Tracker, Custom look, and this is no exception. I obviously have been into these style bikes as a kid, when I was 12, me and my brother had a […]

XS400 Yamaha Brat bike 1977 Custom build from Brisbane Australia

Back in the day in the UK, these were fun machines, albeit, people want the faster RD400, the XS was a great machine and had a style unique of its own, I do not see many here in Orange County these days and this would make a fun Brat bike if you located an old rusty […]

Christmas season is here, grab some great parts and deals this month.

Christmas is almost here, you still have time to shop and find some goodies you may need, I can ship and also wrap in Chrismtmas paper if you so wish, drop us a line at carpy@carpyscaferacers.com or drop a dime or text at 714-598-8392 I shall be adding a few sales coming up too, so […]

Old Commercials I remembered as a kid in the 70’s

Lets go back- Way Back, when Flared jeans, huge cuffed shirts and Wide Collar shirts were all the rave, Not me then as in 1978 I left school and already had my leather jacket. Some fun things I look back on and laugh now is the old TV Commercials for things like Pepsi Cola, some […]

Seoul Motion – CB750 Cafe Racer

Here we are with another Build of mine, this time we are shipping it to Seoul in Korea. This machine has taken some time to get right and she fought me every which way but loose, but I prevailed and became the victor in the end, but- this was a long battle and many a […]

Dakota Joins Navy, Headed to Boot Camp to Train as Navy Diver.

A US Navy Diver refers to personnel in the United States Navy who are qualified in underwater diving and salvage. Navy divers serve with fleet diving detachments and in research and development. Some of the mission areas of the Navy diver include marine salvage, harbor clearance, underwater ship husbandry and repair, submarine rescue, saturation diving, […]