Racing
Sep 5 2008, Sameer Kumar

Its not very often in the racing world that you will find a bike like the custom crafted Café Rouge that was hand built by Larry Houghton. In fact, in today’s world of high octane racing, you will never find a bike that is shaped like the Custom...

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