CR&S VUN Underpowered - Specifications & Review

Company History

CR&S—Cafe Racers & Superbikes—operates like a Milan atelier, crafting low-volume motorcycles that fuse Italian design flair with focused engineering. The VUN distilled the single-cylinder idea to its purest roadgoing essence: minimal bodywork, light weight, and geometry tuned for engagement over comfort. Later, the DUU (doo) translated that ethos to a charismatic big-twin platform, using a muscular American V-twin within a chassis that kept mass centralized and steering precise. Buyers participated in the process—specifying components, finishes, and ergonomics—so each machine felt tailored. The brand’s bikes radiate a particular Milanese modernism: purposeful welds, exposed structure, and form following function without austerity. Homologation, supplier economics, and tiny volumes keep CR&S on the fringes of the market, but that is part of the attraction; these are connoisseur’s motorcycles, intended for Sunday morning perfectionists who savor feedback through the bars and the satisfaction of owning something truly uncommon. Historically, CR&S preserves the Italian tradition of small shops acting as cultural counterweights to mass production—reminding riders that there’s room for machines built around feel rather than focus groups. The VUN and DUU are less about outright speed than about presence and precision, a celebration of control inputs rendered in metal. In a world of software layers, CR&S offers an analog conversation between road and rider, edited to the essentials.