Café-racer

Customized motorcycle built in the style currently categorized as a sportbike; popular in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. The term originated in England when it was popular to modify a motorcycle for better performance and riders would race from cafe to cafe. Sometimes a jukebox would be started to play a particular song at a cafe and riders would race around a prescribed route to see if they could make it back to the cafe before the song was over.