VINTAGE Cafe Racers Speed 1996 Ducati 900SS
WORDS GEOFF SEDDON PHOTOGRAPHY BEN CHAN & DANTE DIZON
BENJIE Flipperboi has been building custom bikes for 10 years from his premises in Corona, California, better known worldwide as the home of Fender guitars. His business, BCR Designs (for Benjie’s Cafe Racer), was an early adopter of the scrambler and tracker styles but soon everyone was doing it and donor bikes were getting hard to find. It was time to play a different tune.
“We love working on Hondas and Yamahas from the 1970s but an increase in demand has caused the price of these bikes to rise greatly since we started the business,” Benjie says. “And scramblers and trackers have gained popularity to the extent that even big-time manufacturers
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