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It all started a few years ago in a small garage in Europe.

Peter Hartson, the founder of Cafe Racer Garage is passionate about motorcycles since he was a child, when he turned 14 years old his father gave him an 80’s CB250 and this was the bike that started all of this!

Peter loved his CB250 but he hated the stock look of his bike, so he started to make some changes on his bike, the first mod was the handlebars he changed the stock handlebar for a clip-on handlebar, that small mod changed completely the look of his small cb250.

But Peter wanted to make a few more changes to his bike, but he didn’t know from where to start, so he bought a few magazines and that’s where he found the Cafe Racer Style Motorcycles. 

Peter fell in love with that minimalist look that is so charismatic of cafe racers, so he decided to turn his CB into a Cafe Racer.  

After a few months and a lot of hours spent in his parent’s garage, he has able to transform his bike into a cafe racer.

When we showed his bike to his friends they were amazed at the work Peter did on his bike, so they asked him to transform his bikes (a CB450, a CB500, and a CB750)  into cafe racers too. Peter accepted the challenge and did a magnificent job on those motorcycles.

Just one week after he finished his friend’s bike he received a call from a friend of a friend that wanted to make some changes on his bike. Peter accepted the job, and he was still working on that bike when he received a call from another gentleman that wanted a cafe racer too. 

Peter realized that he could turn his hobby into a business, and that’s how Cafe Racer Garage was Born!